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Initiation : the living reality of an archetype

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLondon New York Routledge c2007Description: xiii, 200p.; [8] p. of plates col. ill.; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415397933
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC506 .I548 2007
Contents:
Part 1 - The archetype of initiation and Joe Henderson. In the footsteps : the story of an initiatory drawing by Dr. Joseph Henderson / Thomas Singer. Sitting with the old master / Neil Russack. Part 2 - The archetype of initiation in clinical practice. The archetypal paradox of feminine initiation in analytic work / Virginia Beane Rutter. Initiation as surrender : a twelve-year analysis / Richard Stein. Part 3 - The archetype of initiation in culture. On modern initiation into the spiritual : a psychological view / Murray Stein. The traditional Plains Indian vision quest : initiation and individuation / Dyane N. Sherwood. Hitchcock's rite of passage : a Jungian reading of North by Northwest / John Beebe. Part 4 - The archetype of initiation in aging and death. Separation, sorrow, and initiation / Betty De Shong Meador. A meditation on death : "cast a cold eye" / David Tresan.
Abstract: 'This book builds on the vast clinical experience of Joseph L. Henderson, who became interested in initiatory symbolism when he began his analysis with Jung in 1929....After Henderson's book was republished in 2005 Kirsch, Beane Rutter and Singer brought together this collection of essays to allow a new generation to explore the archetype of initiation.'
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Part 1 - The archetype of initiation and Joe Henderson. In the footsteps : the story of an initiatory drawing by Dr. Joseph Henderson / Thomas Singer. Sitting with the old master / Neil Russack. Part 2 - The archetype of initiation in clinical practice. The archetypal paradox of feminine initiation in analytic work / Virginia Beane Rutter. Initiation as surrender : a twelve-year analysis / Richard Stein. Part 3 - The archetype of initiation in culture. On modern initiation into the spiritual : a psychological view / Murray Stein. The traditional Plains Indian vision quest : initiation and individuation / Dyane N. Sherwood. Hitchcock's rite of passage : a Jungian reading of North by Northwest / John Beebe. Part 4 - The archetype of initiation in aging and death. Separation, sorrow, and initiation / Betty De Shong Meador. A meditation on death : "cast a cold eye" / David Tresan.

'This book builds on the vast clinical experience of Joseph L. Henderson, who became interested in initiatory symbolism when he began his analysis with Jung in 1929....After Henderson's book was republished in 2005 Kirsch, Beane Rutter and Singer brought together this collection of essays to allow a new generation to explore the archetype of initiation.'

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