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The Heart of the Matter: Individuation as an Ethical Process by
Christina Becker (Chiron Publications) The Heart is the meeting
place of the individual and the divine—the inner ground of morality,
authenticity, and integrity. The process of coming to the Heart and
realizing the person we were meant to be is what Carl Jung called
"Individuation." This path is full of moral challenges for anyone
with the courage to take it up.
Using Jung’s premise—that the main causes of psychological problems
are conflicts of conscience—the author takes the reader through the
philosophical and spiritual aspects of the ethical dimensions of
this individual journey toward wholeness.
This book is a long overdue and unique contribution to the link between individuation and ethics.
Psychologically, the Heart performs an integrative psychic function, and carries individual morality. The Heart is the place where opposites converge: Logos and Eros; masculine and feminine; thinking and feeling; the rationality of the ego and the irrationality of the unconscious. It possesses its own knowledge and its own truth. This truth is distinct from the truth of the mind while also containing it. The Heart is the seat of conscience, understanding, forgiveness, grace, and our ethical attitude; it is the place of dialogue. In the Heart, we can be in the ethical attitude of holding both polarities until the new attitude appears.
This book is an inquiry into philosophical and spiritual aspects of individuation's ethical dimensions. Specifically, these aspects are viewed in the context of people actively engaged in their process and in the practice of analytical psychology. The book is aimed at clients and patients wishing to understand how to live an ethical life when confronted with the amorality of the unconscious and the ethical conflicts of duty that arise. Becker also addresses analysts, therapists, and those in training by providing a framework for thinking and reflecting on these issues. The work spans many aspects of this complicated topic: Is morality learned or is it innate? How do we live in the world ethically, authentically, and with integrity? What is the distinction between the individual "Voice of God" and collective ethical codes? and How do we live this tension in our lives and in day-to-day practice as analysts? Finally, how do we confront the Shadow in individuals and collectives and bring these elements to consciousness?
The book is divided into two parts. The first part looks at individuation as an ethical process as Jung understood it. Included in this examination are Jung's philosophical influences and personal experiences, which informed his belief that morality is innate in human beings and rests at the archetypal level of the psyche. These explorations also present a classical notion of analytical psychology within the philosophical and psychological contexts of ethics, morality, and conscience. They offer insights into the underpinnings of Jung's theories and ideas. Particular moral and ethical challenges are highlighted—especially related to conscience and the ethical confrontation with the unconscious.
The second part of the book addresses more collective, twenty-first-century implications of Jung's ideas of the "Voice of God". It also explores contemporary issues related to the practice of analytic psychology, given the legacy of Jung's personal relationships with his clients. While supporting individual subjective psychic experience, analysts can side with the psyche to the neglect of collective ethical codes. As a result, many analysts have committed serious boundary violations, all in the name of following the "Voice of God" or the Self. In recent years, the Jungian community has come to the unanimous agreement that sexual activity between analyst and analysand represents a serious rupture in the analytic relationship. However, between the obvious inappropriateness of sexual activity and the institution of strict, rigid rules prohibiting any crossing of analytic boundaries, there exists a field where there are no hard and fast rules, and where the line between ethical and unethical behavior is difficult to distinguish. It is possible for an analyst to adhere strictly to collective codes of ethics prescribed by governing bodies and still behave unethically. In this space, the subject of ethics is a much more delicate and ambiguous endeavor. Most of the issues that arise within this area involve non-sexual boundary violations.
As part of this discussion, Becker examines the archetypal foundations of analytic boundaries and the important role they play in supporting individuation as an ethical process—for both analyst and analysand. Becker argues that the therapeutic relationship has an archetypal core that informs our experience of analysis. The constellation of the Divine Healer with its potential to heal also brings with it the potential for the Charlatan and the False Prophet to wound. Central questions within this dynamic are: What is the difference between flexibility and violation? When is the crossing of the boundary experienced as healing by the analysand? When is it experienced as wounding? Case material is provided, which presents both sides of this issue. Becker has also included the results of a survey she prepared as part of the research for her Diploma Thesis at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich. In it, she asked practicing analysts (members of the IAAP) how they lived the tension between individual conscience and collective moral codes in their daily practice. In conclusion, Becker looks at suffering and the ethical attitudes required to live individuation as an ethical process in everyday life and in practice.
Animal Life in Nature, Myth and Dreams by Elizabeth Caspari with Ken Robbins (Chiron Publications) In Animal life in Nature, Myth and Dreams, Elizabeth Caspari connects the world of real, living animals with the symbolic world of animal images in human thought, both conscious and unconscious. She gives the reader an opportunity to make this connection on his or her own personal journey of discovery.
This book is a study of animals — their natural history, mythology, folklore and religious significance around the world as well as their role in our lives, dreams and everyday language. It examines the symbolic impact animals have on our collective culture, particularly on our own personal and interior lives.
From Albatross to Zebra, each animal is pictured in color and factual context is given about its behavior in the natural world. In-formation is included about habitat, distribution, weight, size, longevity and classification. By drawing on a process of amplification developed by C.G Jung, in which an image is related to a previous historical, mythological, religious or ethnological context, Animal Life discusses the meaning of the animal in a dream, amplifying the reader's understanding of that animal.
This book is intended for anyone interested in the actual behavior and nature of animals and the world we live in, and presents a good deal of ethological and mythological material. It is meant to be more than a mere compilation of facts. Caspari's is a holistic approach to the world. By contemplating the significance of our fellow creatures, and how everything in our universe is linked, it is the author's hope that we can have a more whole, and more healing view of the world.
Here, at last, the much-needed compilations of animal lore that can help us understand and appreciate the creatures that populate our worlds, both outer and interior. In this totally delightful and beautifully illustrated book, Elizabeth Caspari introduces each animal with scientific, zoological information; then presents popular folkloric beliefs about, and traditional symbolic associations to them the world over. These are extremely useful for our understanding of traditional emblematic and symbolic references to animals in the literature and art of numerous cultural traditions. Finally, symbolic psychological discussions are included to help us understand the possible meaning animals convey and radiate in our own dreams and fantasies.
This book is an essential reference. It offers something for everybody: from the scholar seeking to understand heraldic symbolism in medieval poetry, to the psychotherapist engaging the symbolism of the animal life of the psyche, to the sports fan wondering about the animal name of his or her favorite team.
Here Elizabeth Caspari presents the physical and behavioral characteristics of 101 animals, as well as their role in mythology and fairy tales and their possible symbolic meanings in dreams. A beautifully illustrated companion for the naturalist, student, artist and psychotherapist, Animal Life in Nature, Myths and Dreams crystallizes the value and meaning of animals in the natural world and the human soul.
Elizabeth Caspari has taught seminars on "Art, Dreams and
Creativity" and has produced art works in diverse media. She studied
painting at the Art Students League in
Her combined interests in art and Jungian psychology led to her
work in art therapy. For the last twenty years, her major
professional interest has been the mythology and natural life of
animals. This book is the fruit of her years of research and travels
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Jung and Steiner: The Birth of a New Psychology by Gerhard Wehr, with a foreword by Robert Sardello (Anthroposophic Press) A series of extraordinary questions begin to hover when we consider the names C. G. Jung and Rudolf Steiner together: What is the difference between soul and spiritual consciousness? Or the process of individuation and the development of individuality? How do Jungs Self and Steiners I compare?
The different approaches of C.G. Jung, the explorer of soul, and Rudolf Steiner, the explorer of spirit, have never been fully brought together. How, putting these together, can a more holistic understanding of the human being be reached?
In Jung
and Steiner Gerhard Wehr, both an anthroposophist and a biographer of
Jung, answers these questions and explores what a psychology that comprehends
both soul and spirit would begin to look like. Wehr discusses both Jungs and
Steiners views on many topics including
- Evil
- The relationship between East and West
- Life after death
- Technology
- Clairvoyance
Wehr shows how meditation relates to the image work of the soul; and he compares the soul and spiritual views of sexuality. He also considers the Grail stream as a way of uniting Jung and Steiner. He discusses the significance of a therapeutic perspective large enough to address the cultural problems of our time. By approaching two important worldviews with depth, they are enlarged, strengthened, and revitalized. If taken to heart, this work can free both the spiritual science of Steiner and the analytic psychology of Jung from the dangers of dogmatism.
With a profound and original introduction by Robert Sardello and an extensive appendix with essays on depth psychology and anthroposophy by Hans Erhard Lauer, Jung and Steiner bears witness to the birth of a new psychology.
Jung and Steiner does not merely offer a comparison of two creative individuals each of whom has brought something decidedly new to the world. This book goes much further and its reach has to do with the method employed which Wehr calls synoptic. Rather than setting the externals of two systems side by side and looking at each for similarities and differences, Wehr sets the core meaning of each beside the other. Out of the tension something new comes into being. Robert Sardello
The Journey of Luke Skywalker: An Analysis of Modern Myth and Symbol by Steven A. Galipeau (Open Court) George Lucass Star Wars films have captured the collective imagination of the public, both in the United States and abroad. Many fans see Luke Skywalkers quest his conflicts and victories, his colleagues and enemies as an all-encompassing modern-day myth. But what exactly does that myth symbolize and what does it say about our 21st-century psyche? Jungian analyst Steven Galipeau believes that the story speaks to our deepest psychological and spiritual dilemmas. From Princess Leias domination by Darth Vader (the feminine/masculine pairing) to the introduction of The Force (a parallel of Jungs collective unconscious), from the Ewoks (nature and instinct) to the Stormtroopers (soulless technology), Galipeau shows how and why the movies themes and conflicts mirror our own. The book is essentially a blow-by-blow description of each film with liberal doses of dialog, followed by Galipeau's interpretation of what the characters' words and actions might mean on a deeper level. Discussing each episode on a separate basis allows readers to comprehend the psychological growth of each character, especially Luke, who is transformed from an inexperienced adolescent to a spiritually and mentally mature adult by the series' finale.
JUNG AND SHAMANISM IN DIALOGUE: Retrieving the Soul. Retrieving the Sacred by C. Michael Smith ($29.95, paper, 274 pages, notes, index; Paulist Press; 0-8091-3667-8)
In this study, C. Michael Smith explores the affinities and distinctions between shamanism and Jungian psychology by bringing them together in dialogue. According to Smith, shamanism is a complex of practices of magico-religious character concerned primarily with psychospiritual and psychosomatic healing. Smith systematically examines shamanism from a Jungian perspective, and Jungian psychology from a shamanic perspective, ultimately reflecting on the clinical and cultural implications of this study on psychotherapy and spirituality today. This study contributes to a postmodernist integration of principle analytic psychology concepts but it also offers a way to appreciate clinical practice.
Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue makes an excellent resource for psychotherapists, social workers, clergy and anyone interested in tapping into psycho spiritual wisdom.
C. Michael Smith holds a Ph.D. and D.Min. from the Chicago Theological Seminary. He is a Michigan licensed psychologist and adjunct professor in psychology at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and he serves as co-director of Haelan Counseling Center in Niles, Michigan.
ALCHEMICAL ACTIVE IMAGINATION by Marie-Louise von Franz. ($16.95, paper,144 pages, Shambhala; ISBN 0877735891)
C. G. Jung's most important living disciple explains alchemy as a symbolic process of
psychological and spiritual transformation.
Although alchemy is popularly regarded as the science that sought to transmute base
physical matter, many of the medieval alchemists were more interested in developing a
discipline that would lead to the psychological and spiritual transformation of the
individual. C. G. Jung
discovered in his study of alchemical texts a symbolic and imaginal language that
expressed many of his own insights into psychological processes. In this book, Dr. von
Franz examines a text by the sixteenth-century alchemist and physician Gerhard Dorn in
order to show the relationship of alchemy to the concepts and techniques of analytical
psychology. In particular, she shows that the alchemists practiced a kind of meditation
similar to Jung's technique of active imagination, which enables one to dialogue with the
unconscious archetypal elements in the
psyche. The book opens therapeutic insights into the relations among spirit, soul, and
body in the practice of active imagination.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
1 ORIGINS OF ALCHEMY Extraverted and Introverted Traditions
2 DIVINE POWER IN MATTER
3. THE PROBLEM OF THE BODY AND THE REDEMPTION OF THE CHRISTIAN SHADOW
4. MIND AND BODY IN THE CASTLE OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOVE
5. MEDIEVAL MAGIC AND MODERN SYNCHRONICITY
6. VIR UNUS / UNUS MUNDUS
Notes
ARCHETYPAL PATTERNS IN FAIRY TALES by Marie-Louise von Franz ($18.00, paperback, 191 pages; Inner City Books, ISBN: 0919123775
Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales is the first new volume of Dr. von Franz's legendary Zurich lectures to be published since 1980. There are in-depth studies of six fairy tales from Denmark, Spain, China, France and Africa, and one from the Grimm Brothers' collection with references to parallel themes in many others. Featuring the symbolic, nonlinear approach this author is famous for, it offers unique insights into cross-cultural motifs, as well as being an invaluable resource for understanding dream images.
Marie-Louise von Franz, Ph.D., for many years a close colleague of C.G. Jung, is an acknowledged authority on the psychological interpretation of fairy tales, myths and alchemy. She is the author of many books on the application of Jungian psychology, including three modern classics in this series: Redemption Motifs in Fairy Tales, On Divination and Synchronicity, and Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology.
EXCERPT:
This book is a collection of fairy tale interpretations I presented in a series of lectures at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. I did not want to focus on a specific theme but rather to wander through many countries and types of fairy tales. I chose some that challenged me because they were unusual. I wanted to show both their diversity and their underlying similarities, so that one could appreciate what is nationally or racially specific and what is common to all civilizations and all human beings. I wanted to show how Jung's method of interpreting archetypal fantasy material could be applied to these diverse tales.
THE MYSTERIUM LECTURES: A Journey through Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis by Edward F. Edinger ($20 90 illustrations. 352 pp. ISBN 091912366X)
Considered to be the most esoteric and difficult work by Jung, Edinger offers an exceptionaly lucid introduction and commentary to this core work of the Jung opus.
Other major interpretative work by Edinger include: The Aion Lectures: Exploring the Self in C.G. Jung's Aion; Transformation of Libido : A Seminar on Jung's Symbols of Transformation;and The Mystery of the Coniunctio : Alchemical Image of Individuation.
THE NEW GOD-IMAGE:A Study of Jung’s key letters Concerning the Evolution of the Western God-Image by Edward F. Edinger ($24.95, paper, 205 pages, bibliography, index; Chiron; 0-933029-98-5)
C. G. Jung saw in the cultural history of Western people a progressive evolution of its God-image. During the last ten years of his life, he wrote a series of remarkable letters about the new God-image which is now emerging through the discoveries of depth psychology.
Dr. Edward Edinger has selected fourteen of these letters to discuss and has segmented the book into the following three parts
- EPISTEMOLOGICAL PREMISES—Modern mans new awareness of subjectivity
- THE PARADOXICAL GOD—The nature of the new God-image as a union of opposites
- CONTINUING INCARNATION—How the new God-image is born in individual men and women
"If enough individuals have had that transformative experience [coniunctio] within
themselves, then they become seeds sown in the collective psyche which can promote the
unification of the collective psyche as a whole.
How many will it take? ...I think each individual ought to live his life out of the
hypothesis that maybe one would do."
EXCERPT:
In June 1957, Jung wrote a letter to Bernard Lang, which begins as follows
Many thanks for your friendly letter, which shows that the Buber-Jung controversy is a serious matter for you. And so indeed it is, for here that threshold which separates two epochs plays the principal role. I mean by that threshold the theory of knowledge whose starting point is Kant. On that threshold minds go their separate ways those that have understood Kant, and the others that cannot follow him. I will not enter here into the Critique of Pure Reason, but will try to make things clear to you from a different, more human standpoint.
He speaks of "that threshold the theory of knowledge whose starting-point is Kant." The theory of knowledge is the definition of epistemology, a word which is derived from two Greek words episteme, meaning knowledge and logos, meaning word or reason. Epistemology is the study of the process of knowing. It asks such questions as what do we know for certain and how do we know it? It is a concern with the study, origin, nature, and validity of knowledge. Put in psychological terms, epistemology refers to the nature and function of consciousness. In ancient times, epistemology was concerned with what could be known objectively. Human subjectivity, the beginning of modern consciousness, began about the year 1500, a crucial date in the Christian aeon, the time when the spring point moved over into the second fish in the astrological constellation of Pisces. Jung makes quite a point of That took place in human history right around 1500 the ego took a giant leap forward in its hubristic efforts, and the God-image fell out of heaven and into the psyche of man. The awareness of human subjectivity was born new place all by himself. He knew that. He expressed that fact in one of his lugubrious letters. He bemoaned the fact that he is all alone "a few people understand this and that, but almost nobody sees the whore."' that is the fate of the person who is ahead of his time, whose life therefore is largely a posthumous life. He recognized that about himself. He used that phrase concerning himself his "life is a posthumous one." The question relevant for us to ask is—what does this have to do with everyday psychotherapy?
Jungian psychology, by preserving a living myth which connects both the individual and society to its roots, has redemptive powers for society also. Myth is preeminently a social phenomenon it is told by the many and heard by the many. It gives the ultimately unimaginable religious experience an image, a form in which to express itself, and thus makes community life possible.
A generally accepted myth "makes community life possible." The implications of that psychological fact are immense. I believe the evidence is very clear that every organic community, including the largest communities—namely, whole civilizations—exist as organic entities because [they are] contained within a common myth, which provides all the members of that community a common basis of connection to the transpersonal. What we are witnessing today is a profound breakdown of our collective myth. The result is that there is a fragmentation of the body social. It is breaking up into fragments of wretched "isms," which are at war against each other. We see the same thing happening in Yugoslavia, and other places that are released from the imposition of unity from above. With no containing myth to unify them from within or from below, they disintegrate into wretched, regressive "isms." That is the vast panorama we witness everywhere today.
Each of the stages mentioned earlier had a containing myth. Even today various myths exist concurrently, depending on the advancement of culture and the individual. Antiquity was the phase of polytheism, and ancient Judaism was the beginning of monotheism. Monotheism was associated with the establishment of a specific relationship between God and man. There was no such personal relationship in polytheism, which makes all of antiquity essentially tragic. There is no redemption to be had in antiquity, with the exception of initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries, because, although there were venous devices like the augurs and the omens to read certain messages from the divine realm, there was no living connection of concern between man and the divine. That means that antiquity hovered between heroism and despair. The heroic was accomplished in spite of the tragic, futile state of humanity. The central wisdom of antiquity was enunciated by Sophocles "Best for man never to have been born at all and next best to die young." That was the pinnacle of ancient wisdom the consequence of that stage of relation between the ego and the Self. That all changes with the emergence of monotheism and with the personal relationship connection between the ego and the Self.
Edward F. Edinger is a leading Jungian analyst residing in Los Angeles. He is a
founding member of the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, and former chairman of the C. G.
Jung Training Center in New York where he practiced for many years. Dr. Edinger is the
author of fourteen books dealing with the Jungian themes of archetypes, psyche, Self, and
analysis. Another work related Jung's Answer to Job is Transformation of
the God-Image : An Elucidation of
Jung's Answer to Job.
THE FUNCTIONING TRANSCENDENT by Ann Ulanov ($24.95, paper, Continuum, ISBN 0-933029-99-3
The Transcendent is a reality that functions in all our lives all the time---call it God, the unknown, or the holy. It is not some obscure out-of-reach Other available only to those with specialized knowledge or a phenomenon spoken about only in a church, temple, or mosque.
In our daily lives, the Transcendent is often experienced addressing us through our compulsions, perversions, and ordinary struggles. We find it touching us through our most shameful problems and bidding us to realize our most hidden promise.
Jungian analyst Ann Ulanov shows us how the Transcendent appears in her clinical work, how to work with it in dreams and symptoms, and how it informs encounters between analyst and analysand. She demonstrates the spiritual aspect of analysis in her case observations dealing with fatness and the female, masochistic suffering, parental relationships, follow-up treatment in patient/ therapist sex, and the resolution of suicidal temptations.
Ann Belford Ulanov, Ph.D., L.H.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City, a faculty member and supervising analyst for the C. G. Jung Institute of New York City, and the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary. She is the author of six books and many articles dealing with Jungian psychology, theology, and women's issues, and coauthor of six books with her husband, Barry Ulanov
PRACTICING WHOLENESS: Analytical Psychology and Jungian Thought by Murray Stein ($27.50, hardcover, 237 pages, bibliography, index; Continuum; 0-8264-0905-9
Stein's work is at the center of much Jungian training these days. In this volume he explores on some central aspects of clinical practice into the consideration of the art of psychotherapy. His work compliments Ulanov's consideration of the Transcendent.
EXCERPT:
Wholeness is a difficult concept to work with in any field, and psychology and its practical application in psychotherapy are no exception. As a concept it extends to all-inclusiveness and therefore threatens to scatter its force in vagueness and the nebulous wonders of cosmic speculation. As I use it in this book I have in mind the general human urge to want to fulfill all potentials given by our organism, by our times and the society we live in, and by our imagination. Wholeness is what we desire most deeply even if we do not know what it is we are striving after and cannot put a name to it.
If wholeness is the goal of our deepest human desire, it is also something that encompasses our entire lifetime and all our efforts at self-expression. It is not something we achieve once and for all. It is not static, a state of being that can be arrived at. To use the metaphor of art making, we can say that living well is an art but it is an art that is never perfected or completed. The painting that we create by living is a work always in progress, and even death is not necessarily the final brush stroke to the canvas. How we live and how we die are certainly the keys to our individual styles. One person paints an austere picture in shades of white, black, brown, and gray. Another paints in exuberant splashes of primary color. Abstract or representational, impressionistic or surreal, classic or romantic, each style is a way to embrace wholeness and to reveal its extensions. There are many paths to wholeness, many ways to express it concretely in life, and many modes of exploring and revealing its endless possibilities.
To practice wholeness is to engage in this endeavor intentionally. Like practicing the piano, it is a daily activity. One practices to deepen the art, to increase the range of expression, to discover nuance. Wholeness is no more achieved than piano artistry is finally attained. It is won anew every day. Perhaps one day builds on another and the present is the result of the past, and yet as any concert performer will confess, each day is a brand new struggle to attain the pleasures of fluency and the delicate fingering required by genuine artistry. No day may pass without conscious, deliberate effort. Put aside the clich that practice makes perfect. It does not. Practice overcomes resistance for the moment, but that resistance reappears and must be conquered afresh. Perfection is out of the question.
To practice wholeness in the psychological sense is to practice living on several levels at the same time. There can be no wholeness without the practical and concrete expression of a life lived in reality, in society, in the time frame of chronological life possibilities. There is a time to have children, for instance, and if this is ignored one cannot make up for it with imaginary children. Not that every life lived toward wholeness must include having children—but if children are to be a part of it they must appear at a particular time, concretely and actually. There is a time to make a career, and again if this time is missed a price is exacted. So, life lived concretely and practically in an everyday sense is one dimension of practicing wholeness. Another dimension is the symbolic. Imagination and dreams belong to one's wholeness, and practicing wholeness includes holding consciousness of them as they appear in life. These factors often add a sense of meaning and psychic depth to periods of life that otherwise would be two-dimensional. They also lure us forward into a future of possibility. There is also the dimension of emotion and feeling, which adds color and music to wholeness. There is the dimension of intellect and understanding, which clarifies who and what we are and perhaps suggests what is going on. Differentiation and discrimination are essential products of practicing wholeness. Moving in and through these several dimensions and linking them to one another is what practicing wholeness is all about.
Finally, practicing wholeness is active. This does not exclude reflection. The verb "to reflect" indicates that this is also an activity. Reflecting upon events and the recent and far past is as important a factor in practicing wholeness as is creating new futures, new plans, new objects. The accent, however, is on the dynamic element. Wholeness is not a thing, a substance, a state of being to be achieved or held on to or enjoyed; it is in fact nothing in and of itself. It is a concept that keeps us moving along a spiral of consciousness. We practice wholeness by staying close to our true selves, by using our energy to act in the world with integrity. Only in the final analysis can one say what the pattern woven into the tapestry of an individual life has been. In retrospect, looking back over one's youth and middle years and late years from the vantage point of old age, one might be lucky enough to glimpse the overall pattern and perceive the meaning of the whole. Along the way one also has moments of insight, glimpses of the whole as it is unfolding. But one is never absolutely sure, for the ultimate pattern and its meaning are a mystery, perhaps known only to God. At best we interpret and study the details for a hint. And in the meantime we go on practicing, daily, faithfully...
In the first part of the book I set out the general concept of wholeness and attempt to detail what it is made up of by using Jung's theory of instincts and archetypes. As Jung conceptualized the psyche, it is formed out of the union of body and spirit, instinct and archetype. He listed five instincts and an indefinite number of archetypes. The object, from the point of wholeness, is to unite instinct and archetype in a field of activity that is not severely restricted by the pathological structures incurred in one's personal life history. In this part of the book, too, I point out some methods for increasing the range and effectiveness of practicing wholeness and extend the discussion into one of the most common and mundane areas of life, the workplace.
In the second part of the book, which makes up the majority of its pages, my focus is the clinical practice of psychotherapy. Here I set out a general philosophical statement about the practice of analytical psychotherapy by examining the relation of psychotherapeutic treatment to human nature. From there I move on to several aspects of treatment as these confront the practicing therapist and the practiced upon patient: the reconstruction of personal history and its meaning, the nature of the relationship between therapist and patient and the role this plays in the healing process, and some psychopathological problems that stand in the way of practicing wholeness. Certainly I cannot claim that this section is exhaustive of the kinds of things that happen in the course of long-term psychotherapy, which in Jungian circles we call analysis, but I do believe it is representative. Throughout all of these chapters, the central concern is the practice of wholeness as this takes place within the context of psychotherapy.
It should be clear to the reader from even this brief introduction that I regard the practice of wholeness as an essentially non-clinical activity. By no stretch of the imagination can it be considered as a unique product of the therapeutic industry. It is a human activity that reaches across cultures and across historical eras to include human beings, women and men, adults and children, throughout human history who have seriously struggled to understand themselves and to extend the scope of their consciousness and self-actualization. Practicing wholeness is what the more adventuresome and expansive, and/or intensive among the general human population have done in all times and all places. This book is a witness to that universal human phenomenon and an attempt to give it greater definition and precision as well as to promote its usefulness in all areas of the contemporary world.
PSYCHE AND FAMILY: Jungian Applications to Family edited by Laura Dodson and Terrill Gibson ($17.95, paper, Chrion)
In 1958, Jung offered his prediction that a shift in archetypal energies would occur over our world as we move into the twenty-first century, a shift that would tug at the inner psychological and spiritual lives of many people. This archetypal shift, he predicted, would move people toward growth of the self or soul in both the inner world of the individual and the outer world of family and global systems.
It seems that this is actually happening rapidly all around and in many of us. If the multi-theoretical professions of psychology are to make their contributions to this phenomena must move beyond disciplinary zealotry toward cross disciplinary openness. This book contributes to that movement as it reaches to the depth of psyche and soul and bridges to couple and family systems. It is intended for both those who live and struggle in relationships and for practitioners of psychotherapy.
This engaging and imaginative book argues that Jungian depth psychology and family systems theory are soul mates. Notions like the collective unconscious and archetypes can't be contained within an intrapsychic frame. Object relations theory was the initial bridge. The possibilities are now clearer in an age of holistic thought and spirituality. This calls for "cross disciplinary wonder." What a sweet antidote to the oppression of managed care and DSM IV. Family therapists revitalize yourselves with this mind expanding book. In terms of effect short term clinical work this important synthesis to two unique systems of psychodynamics'' offers practical insights to the practicing psychotherapists.
KNOWING WOMAN: a Feminine Psychology by Irene Claremont de Castillejo. ($13.00, paper, bibliography, Shambahala; ISBN 1570622043
In this classic work from 1973, a noted Jungian analyst explores the division of the human psyche into masculine and feminine. Characteristic of feminine consciousness, she writes, is diffuse awareness, which recognizes the unity of all life and promotes acceptance and relationship. The masculine attitude is one of focused consciousness, the capacity to formulate ideas and to change, invent, and create. Concerned with the experience of women in a culture dominated by masculine values, the author discusses topics such as the animus (the masculine "soul image" in a woman's unconscious); women's roles in relation to work, friends, children, and lovers; and issues such as abortion, aging, and self-determination.
CONTENTS
Preface
I Meeting
II Responsibility and shadow
III Man the hero
IV Roles of women-woman as mediator
V The animus friend or foe?
VI The second apple
VII Bridges
VIII What do we mean by love?
IX The Rainmaker ideal
X The older woman
XI Soul images of woman
Index
Irene Claremont de Castillejo was a Jungian analyst who studied feminine psychology with Emma Jung and Toni Wolff in Zurich.
ARCHETYPAL DIMENSIONS OF THE PSYCHE by Marie-Louise von Franz ($35.00, hardcover, 408 pages, notes, bibliography, index, Shambhala, 1-57062-133-0)
In the view of Jungian psychology, we are living today through a crucial transition: a period of reaction against cultural and religious forms that have become rigid and cut off from the creative wellspring of the collective unconscious. The hidden significance of this "psychic emergency" is that it spurs the development of human consciousness on toward a spiritual rebirth.
In this book—the fourth and final volume in a series of collected essays—the eminent Jungian analyst Marie-Louise van Franz uses her vast knowledge of myths, fairy tales, dreams, and visions to show how the collective psyche itself has pointed to ways of resolving the modern predicament. She discusses Mercurius, the darkly paradoxical figure from medieval alchemy; the visions of the Swiss mystic Niklaus von Flue; the "unknown visitor" motif in fairy tales; the Cosmic Man as image of the goal of human development; and many archetypal dreams of contemporary people. All of these can be seen as expressions of a collective urge in the West to reintegrate nature and the body, matter and spirit—and, Ultimately to help us find our way, individually and collectively, to a renewed unity of being and culture.
Marie-Louise van Franz is considered the foremost living follower of C. G. Jung, with whom she worked closely from 1934 until his death m 1961. A founder of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, she has published widely on subjects including alchemy, dreams, fairy tales, personality types, and psychotherapy.
THE QUEENS CLOAK: A Myth of Mid-Life by Joan Chamberlain Engelman ($14.95, paper, 115 pages, bibliography, index, Chiron, 0-933029-73-X
Once upon a time, after the winter festival, the Queen realized she was bored and rather depressed. Looking at her ladies-in-waiting, she asked if anyone could think of something interesting to do. Most suggested the same old things, but one woman remembered that long ago the Queen had mentioned doing an inventory of the castle. "Now is the time," cried the Queen with delight.
In THE QUEENS CLOAK , Engelsman provides us with an entry point into our own life’s unfolding. Using the timeless form of the fairy tale, she draws you out of the everyday world and into the archetypal realm of eternal human patterns, where new perspectives await.
Engelsman offers respectful and helpful counsel in her commentary but always leaves room for your own response to emerge. Those who wrap themselves in THE QUEENS CLOAK will find the experience to be a challenging opportunity to reappraise and reweave the threads of their own ways of living.
Dr. Engelsman is a well-known author and lecturer in the fields of psychology and spirituality. She is an adjunct faculty member at Drew University and is a noted consultant on family violence. She is the author of The Feminine Dimension of the Divine.
DREAM THEATRES OF THE SOUL: Empowering the Feminine through Jungian Dream Work by Jean Benedict Raffia, Foreword by Robert Johnson ($15.95, paper, 221 pages, bibliography, index, LuraMedia, 1-880913-10-0)
The power and mystery of dreams often confound us if we but pay attention to them. Often we wonder about the strange and emotionally evocative scenarios played out in our unconscious minds during sleep. The places, events, and people encountered seem to hold significant meaning, but it often eludes us. DREAM THEATRES OF THE SOUL, a fascinating exploration of the dream world, provides a practical guide to understanding your dreams and achieving personal growth through dream interpretation.
In this time when we are so worldly and ego-directed yet so in need of the guidance of spirit, tools such as this book which help us explore our feminine inner world and larger Self are precious gems. Jean Raffa’s book offers an important and original contribution to the literature about dreams. Raffa has a way of presenting complex ideas clearly and directly.
This unique book will be extremely helpful as you seek to assimilate the wisdom of your dreams. Raffa is lucid and articulate about complex Jungian theory, and her dream interpretations are warmly personal. This is a definite beginners book that offers introductory materiel in such away as to invite self-inquiry and reflection.
Some books educate the mind; others nourish the soul. DREAM THEATRES OF THE SOUL does both. This refreshingly forthright work combines the practicality of a handbook with the poetry of theater to provide a compelling testimony to the mysterious healing power of dreams.
Raffa is also the author of The Bridge to Wholeness: A Feminine Alternative to the Hero Myth
MERCURY RISING: Women, Evil and the Trickster Gods by Deldon Anne McNeely ($18.00, paper, 208 pages, notes, Spring Publications, 0-88214-366-2)
Feminine Trickster figures have fascinated us from Sheherazade to Mata Hari to the fatal attraction next door. Tricksters by their nature force us to question our sense of order and morality along with our sanity. Mercurial and paradoxical, this archetype opens up something new and something larger than our current Selves. Combine that with the feminine and evil and the result is a riveting book as unusual as Women Who Run with the Wolves. McNeely’s book is destined to become a much consulted classic especially in helping to understand the idiosyncrasies of the feminine and evil.
Deldon Anne McNeely, originally from New Orleans studied and trained in Zurich, Switzerland and is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. She is a psychoanalyst in Lynchburg, Virginia.
THE WOMAN WHO LOST HER HEART: A Tale of Reawakening by Susan O’Halloran and Susan Delattre ($10.95, paper, 148 pages, Innisfree Press, 1-880913-27-5)
THE WOMAN WHO FOUND HER VOICE: A Tale of Transforming by Susan O’Halloran and Susan Delattre ($12.95, paper, 154 pages, Innisfree Press, 1-880913-18-6)
In their first book, THE WOMAN WHO LOST HER HEART, the heroine led us on a perilous journey—tumbling over waterfalls, crawling into dark, dank caves, navigating her way through desert sandstorms—all to discover the importance of self-knowledge and nurturance. This fable reminds women to nurture their Inner Self. "Be prepared to be swept away!" An exhilarating adventure whose compelling images and feelings speak directly to the hidden child in each of us. Through this she learns to think about herself differently. In THE WOMAN WHO FOUND HER VOICE, the heroine is invited to think about the core issues differently. In this medieval tale for modern adults, a woman named Marina learns to make a difference in an unjust world. Despairing over her efforts to save a runaway child, she is visited by a magical hawk who enables her to assume the identity of mythical creatures. From each animal she learns a valuable lesson until she develops the ability to speak up for what she believes. Her questions may be yours: Where is my community? What can I do to make the world a better place? How do I relate to the people who seem to be working against me? How do I speak up for what I believe? They seek to answer these questions through story, to show what the middle path of harmony, compassion, and true social change might look like, and so we each need each other’s gentle imaginings to point the way. Therein, as they say, lies the tale.
They chose story as a way to explore these questions because it is one of the most open of art forms. Stories call us in on whatever level we want to enter and keep the door open if we should ever choose to come back for more.
THE TAO OF JUNG: The Way of Integrity by David Rosen($21.95, hardcover, 197 pages, notes, bibliography, index, Viking Press, 0-670-86069-7)
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This startling and revealing new interpretation of Jung’s life and psychology is based on the insight that he was essentially a Taoist. Drawing throughout on Jung’s own letters, aphorisms, and other writings, The Tao of Jung looks at Jung through six crises of his personal development, including his break with Freud and his later work with the I Ching.
In structure the book is modeled on the classic Tao Te Ching—the world’s most translated book after the Bible. David Rosen traces parallels between Jung’s natural world of the psyche and that of Taoist philosophy, exploring the integration of opposites such as shadow/persona, yin/yang, dark/light, feminine/masculine; the Great Mother as the origin of all things; the I Ching and synchronicity; the Way of Integrity and individuation; and the need to release the ego and surrender to the Self or Tao. It is an illuminating introduction to both Taoism and Jungian thought. Written with modesty and verve, it offers a fine introduction to Jung and also to Taoism.
TRANSFORMING DEPRESSION: Healing the Soul through Creativity by David Rosen ($14.95, paper, 263 pages, notes, bibliography, index, Arkana Book [Penguin] 0-16-019537-8)
This volume offers an innovative approach to recovery from suicidal depression. Rosen, who has dealt with depression in his own life and the suicides of loved ones, applies Carl Jung’s method of active imagination to treating depressed and suicidal individuals. He shows that when people learn to confront the rich images and symbols that emerge from their struggles, they can turn their despair into a fountain of creative energy. He details the paths of four patients whose work in painting, pottery, and dance—in conjunction with psychotherapy—led them from sorrow to a more meaningful life. Their dramatic paintings illustrate the text. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Rosen offers depressed individuals, their families, and therapists a lifesaving course in healing the soul through creativity. Though the book itself would not likely reach a clinically depressed person. It does offer hope to people with chronic depressive dispositions.
John Van Eenwyk's Jungian account of chaos theory clarifies the Jungian
account of individuation and archetypes seems to be ever more aware that reality is
processual and procedural more than structural.
Archetypes & Strange Attractors: The Chaotic
World of Symbols by John R. Van Eenwyk ($18.00, paper, 191 pages; glossary, bibliography,
index, Inner City Books, ISBN 0-919123-76-7)
Chaos theory as it relates to Jungian individuation, Jung, symbols and chaos.
| This book is an elaboration of Jung's
ideas in light of what we know from physics and mathematics about complex dynamic
systems. Some of the material may be a bit chewy. But that is necessary to provide as
complete an account as possible of what chaos is, how it appears in our psychological
lives, and what we can do when we find ourselves in the thick of it. Each of us develops in ways that differ from others. Yet, we all experience roughly the same dynamics in our lives. In order to understand how this is possible, we must first consider the role that symbols play in our development. Symbols occupy a unique place in the history of humankind, for their apprehension and interpretation lifts us above the level of mindless drudges toiling incessantly at the task of survival. Symbols move us beyond ourselves, beyond our perspectives, assumptions, beliefs and, fragile as they are, our certainties. Symbols reflect our ideals and spur us on to higher levels of existence. Unfortunately, they can just as often land us in lower ones, for symbols are ambiguous. They can lead to better, more humane and dignified relations with one another, or to the most horrifying exploitations. Jung spent a lifetime analyzing symbols. He believed that their ambiguity derives from a fundamental dynamic within the psyche-the tension of opposites. Archetypes & Strange Attractors builds on Jung's research. It seeks to clarify how symbols work, how they accomplish what they do; it is about the mechanics of our interactions with them. These concerns are more than academic. Studying what symbols do, clarifies what symbols are. This, in turn, helps us to interact with them more effectively when they appear. And that, ultimately, helps us to manage the power they exert on us. The danger of possession by symbols is very real and not to be underestimated. They can be powerful motivations for constructive growth or for destructive manipulation. Which side wins out depends on the extent of our understanding of the role of symbols in psychological development. Only when we understand and recognize the dynamics of symbols can we have the freedom to use them in the service of the highest ideals to which we aspire. Humankind seems always at the crossroads of its destiny. Perhaps if we better understood how we arrive there, we could better understand which way to turn. The premise of this book is that insight into the journey is synonymous with knowledge of the mechanics of symbols. Jung believed that in the dynamics of the psyche chaos is inevitable. Consequently, he focused a great deal of attention on developing the means to find patterns in that chaos. The field of science known as "chaos theory" now suggests that his theories could be verified quantitatively were we to have the ability to keep track of all the variants. Analytical psychology and physical and mathematical science all employ virtually identical metaphors to understand particular phenomena, but this does not guarantee that they are accurate metaphors or that they describe the same phenomena. The evidence is growing, however, that chaos theory and analytical psychology are describing similar dynamics, albeit in very different realms. One of the most important implications of the correspondence between Jung's theories and chaos research is that fantasies about order as the most desirable state of being are slowly giving way to the realization that chaos is far healthier than previously imagined. With regard to psychological development and the individuation process, chaos may be not only unavoidable but necessary. From the preface to Archetypes & Strange Attractors: The Chaotic World of Symbols by John R. Van Eenwyk |
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The Interactive Field in Analysis (Chiron Clinical Series)
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Jungian Analysis (The Reality of the Psyche Series)
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Psychopathology : Contemporary Jungian Perspectives
Andrew Samuels(Editor) / Paperback / Published 1999
Contemporary Jungian Analysis : Post-Jungian Perspectives
from the Society of Analytical Psychology
Ian Alister(Editor), et al / Hardcover / Published 1998
Cult Fictions : C.G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical
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Sonu Shamdasani / Hardcover / Published 1998
Incest Fantasies & Self-Destructive Acts : Jungian and Post-Jungian Psychotherapy in Adolescence
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