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Madness and creativity

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: (Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology: 18)College Station, TX Texax A&M University Press c2013Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 118p.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 978-1-603449406
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Contents:
Foreword - David Rosen. Introduction. Part 1 - Madness. 1 Personal madness. 2 Collective madness. Part 2 - Creativity. 3 Compelling complex. 4 Creative return
Abstract: 'Ann Ulanov's meditations in relationship to The Red Book resonate with my own. She is correct in that reading that book precipitates a crisis....The Red Book is about Jung's break from Freud and his journey to psychic Hell and back, that is, the transformation of his madness into creative purpose. Rightfully so, Jung includes evil in this process. For how else can one know the good without knowing the bad? Jung's Red Book and Ulanov's meditations on it are honest and illustrate meaninglessness, murderous rage, darkness, hopelessness, and their enantiodromia to the guiding light of meaning, joy, inspiration, and hope.' --Foreword
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Foreword by David H. Rosen

Foreword - David Rosen. Introduction. Part 1 - Madness. 1 Personal madness. 2 Collective madness. Part 2 - Creativity. 3 Compelling complex. 4 Creative return

'Ann Ulanov's meditations in relationship to The Red Book resonate with my own. She is correct in that reading that book precipitates a crisis....The Red Book is about Jung's break from Freud and his journey to psychic Hell and back, that is, the transformation of his madness into creative purpose. Rightfully so, Jung includes evil in this process. For how else can one know the good without knowing the bad? Jung's Red Book and Ulanov's meditations on it are honest and illustrate meaninglessness, murderous rage, darkness, hopelessness, and their enantiodromia to the guiding light of meaning, joy, inspiration, and hope.' --Foreword

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