Jung's ethics : moral psychology and his cure of souls / Dan Merkur ; edited by Jon Mills.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jung's moral psychology -- Cure of souls -- The creativity of dreams -- Having it out with the unconscious -- Jung's individuation process -- Consciousness and its expansion

No organized study of Jung's ethics has been accomplished until now. Drawing on direct quotes from all his collected works, interviews, and seminars, psychoanalyst and religious scholar Dan Merkur provides a compendium of Jung's thoughts on various topics and themes that comprise his theoretical corpus -- from the personal unconscious, repression, dreams, good and evil, and the shadow, to collective phenomena such as archetypes, synchronicity, the psychoid, the paranormal, God, and the Self, as well as his contributions to clinical method and technique including active imagination, inner dialogue, and the process of individuation and consciousness expansion. The interconnecting thread in his approach to the subject matter is to read Jung's work through an ethical lens. What comes to light is how Merkur systematically portrays Jung as a moralist, but also as a complex thinker who situates the human being as an institutional animal struggling with internal conflict and naturalized sin. In the end, we are offered a unique presentation of Jung's core theoretical and clinical ideas centering on an ethical fulcrum, whereby his moral psychology leads to a cure of souls. Jung's Ethics will be of interest to academics, scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of Jungian studies and analytical psychology, ethics, moral psychology, philosophy, religious studies, and mental health professionals focusing on the integration of humanities and psychoanalysis.'

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