The idea of the numinous : contemporary Jungian and psychoanalytic perspectives / edited by Ann Casement and David Tacey.

Foreword by James Grotstein.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Psychologies as ontology-making practices : William James and the pluralities of psychological experience -- Witchcraft : the numinous power of humans -- On the importance of numinous experience in the alchemy of individuation -- Varieties of numinous experience : the experience of the sacred in the therapeutic process -- Numinosity/femininity -- Vagaries of numinous experience : two questions to George Steiner -- Jung and Derrida : the numinous, deconstruction, and myth -- The idea of the numinous in Goethe and Jung -- Accessing the numinous : Apolline and Dionysian pathways -- Numinosity and terror : Jung's psychological revision of Otto as an aid to engaging religious fundamentalism -- Rerooting the mother : the numinosity of the night -- The experience of the numinous today : from the novels of Haruki Murakami -- Holy, Holy, Holy : the misappropriation of the numinous in Jung -- The role of the numinous in the reception of Jung.

'...examines how the numinous has gained currency in the post-modern world, demonstrating how the numinous is no longer confined to religious discourses but is included in humanist, secular and scientific views of the world.'

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