Destruction and creation : facing the ambiguities of power

Introduction - Stacy Wirth, Isabelle Meier, John Hill. Part 1 - Nothingness. 1 Incipit and the interrogation of nothingness: Psyche's response to the question "Why is there not nothing?". 2 "Creation--that is the great redemption from suffering, and life's easement" -- Paul Bishop. Part 2 - "Sympathy for the devil". 3 The power of the dark side - David Tacey. 4 Kali: the protective mother and the destroyer - Dariane Pictet. 5 The power of the unconscious: descent into madness or spiritual emergence? - Ursula Wirtz. 6 Dismemberment: a clinical view of destruction in the service of creation. 7 The sun god's journey through the netherworld: an Egyptian vision of death and renewal - Andreas Schweizer. Part 4 - Power's limits. 8 A cause as home? How the uprooted global citizen may find a home in the soul - Kristina Schelllinski. 9 Power and powerlessness within the analytic dialogue - Mario Jacoby. 10 The jester and the king - Bernard Sartorius. Part 5 - Power's creations. 11 Poesis: Sils kaleidescope - Josephine Evetts-Secker. 12 To Nietzsche - Jo Ann Rasch

'The essays that follow explore the paradoxes of our power and powerlessness in this spinning universe. Power itself is neutral, tasked to address, perhaps resolve, the dilemmas of life. Yet joy, suffering, injustice, retribution, rectification, enlightenment, degradation, and enlargement may flow from the exercise of power....' --James Hollis (Preface)

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