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Explorations into the self

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: (The library of analytical psychology; 7)London/NY Academic Press c1985Description: xiii, 235p.; bibliog.; indexContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-12-262164-6
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Part One: Empirical foundation, hypotheses and theories. 1. The self in Jung's works. 2. Individuation and ego development. 3. Integration-deintegration in infancy. 4. A possible root of active imagination. Part Two: Ego and self. 5. The self as an imaginative construct. 6. The ego and the self. 7. Mental health. 8. A clinical study. 9. An interpretation of Jung's thesis about synchronicity. 10. Countertransference. 11. Defences of the self. 12. Jungian views of body-mind. Part Three: Religion, mysticism, alchemy. Introduction. 13. Is God supernatural?. 14. Notes on the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross. 15. Alchemy. 16. Concluding reflections
Abstract: '...Firstly it analyses and evaluates the ambiguity in Jung's definitions and metaphors about the self, at the same time expounding the theory of the self as a dynamic system, evolving through deintegration and reintegration processes during early infancy and childhood. Secondly it investigates the relation of the ego to the self, giving notable consideration to psychoanalytic work. Finally the presence of the self, behind or within both the religious and the alchemical experience, is explored.'
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Ego (Psychology) : Part Two: Ego and Self, p81-170.. Synchronicity : An interpretation of Jung's thesis about synchronicity, p128-136.. Countertransference (Psychology) : p137-151.. Mind and Body : Jungian views of body-mind, p161-170.. Mysticism : Part Three: Religion, mysticism, and alchemy, p172-218.. John of The Cross, Saint. 1542-1591 : Notes on the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross, p185-202.. Alchemy and Psychology : p203-218.. Mental Health : p115-119.. Analytical Psychology and Religion : Part Three: Religion, mysticism, and alchemy, p172-218.. Active Imagination : A possible root of active imagination, p64-80.. Infant Psychology : Integration-deintegration in infancy, p50-63; see also index.. Analytical Psychology : Fordham explains and interprets Jung's theories, see index.

Pub. for The Society of Analytical Psychology, London. Foreword by Kenneth Lambert.

Part One: Empirical foundation, hypotheses and theories. 1. The self in Jung's works. 2. Individuation and ego development. 3. Integration-deintegration in infancy. 4. A possible root of active imagination. Part Two: Ego and self. 5. The self as an imaginative construct. 6. The ego and the self. 7. Mental health. 8. A clinical study. 9. An interpretation of Jung's thesis about synchronicity. 10. Countertransference. 11. Defences of the self. 12. Jungian views of body-mind. Part Three: Religion, mysticism, alchemy. Introduction. 13. Is God supernatural?. 14. Notes on the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross. 15. Alchemy. 16. Concluding reflections

'...Firstly it analyses and evaluates the ambiguity in Jung's definitions and metaphors about the self, at the same time expounding the theory of the self as a dynamic system, evolving through deintegration and reintegration processes during early infancy and childhood. Secondly it investigates the relation of the ego to the self, giving notable consideration to psychoanalytic work. Finally the presence of the self, behind or within both the religious and the alchemical experience, is explored.'

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