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In Pathways into the Jungian World contributors from the disciplines of medicine, psychology and philosophy look at the central issues of commonality and difference between phenomenology and analytical psychology.
The major theme of the book is how existential phenomenology and analytical psychology have been involved in the same fundamental cultural and therapeutic project - both legitimize the subtlety, complexity and depth of experience in an age when the meaning of experience has been abandoned to the dictates of pharmaceutical technology, economics and medical psychiatry. The contributors reveal how Jung's relationship to the phenomenological tradition can be, and is being, developed, and rigorously show that the psychological resonance of the world is immediately available for phenomenological description.
List of contents
Introduction PART 1 The Jungian world 1 Jung's recollection of the life-world 2 Alchemy and the subtle body of metaphor: soul and Cosmos 3 In destitute times: archetype and existence in Rilke's Duino Elegies 4 The anima mundi and the fourfold: Hillman and Heidegger on the "idea" of the world in the tube: the life of television PART 2 The Jungian imagination 101 6 Jung's approach to the phenomenology of religious experience: a view from the consulting room 7 Thanatos and existence: towards a Jungian phenomenology of the death instinct 8 Mnemosyne and Lethe: memory, Jung, Phenomenology 9 Eros and Psyche: a reading of Neumann and Merleau-Ponty 10 The metaphor of light and its deconstruction in Jung's alchemical vision PART 3 Therapeutic issues 11 Eros and Chaos: the mysteries and shadows of love 12 Depth psychology and the liberation of being 13 Phenomenology, analytical psychology, and play Therapy 14 Analyzing from the Self: an empirical phenomenology of the "third" in analysis
About the author
Roger Brooke is Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. He is the author of Jung and Phenomenology (Routledge, 1991).
Summary
In Pathways into the Jungian World contributors from the disciplines of medicine, psychology and philosophy look at the central issues of commonality and difference between phenomenology and analytical psychology.
