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Creating a life : finding your individual path

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: (Studies in Jungian psychology by Jungian analysts: 92)Toronto, ON Inner City Books c2001Description: 159p.; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0919123937
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF724.85.S43 H65 2001
Contents:
Part 1 - The context, which is the problem, partly.... 1 Creating a life: the necessity of personal myth. 2 The core complexes. 3 The examined life. 4 People's stories. 5 Necessary fictions. 6 The problem of spiritual authority. Part 2 - Attitudes and practices for the second half of life. 7 Amor fati, the love of one's fate. 8 Redeeming ancestors. 9 Crisis. 10 The inescapable condition. 11 Mentors, teachers, gurus and sages. 12 The necessary mess of things. 13 The end of ambition. 14 Being small, being large. 15 Getting over it.... 16 Attending the soul. 17 Fundamentalist morality. 18 What is real beneath reality?. 19 What is our true duty?. 20 The camp of concentrated shadow work. 21 Sad stories of the death of kings. 22 Today nothing happened. 23 Reading the world. 24 The complexity of relationships. 25 The laughter of the gods. 26 Finding the blue light. Part 3 - Being here. 27 Gratitude. 28 So, where are we, then?
Abstract: '...a powerful commentary on the importance of the examined life, illustrating how we may arrive at an understanding of our life choices and relationships by exploring our core complexes and personal history. With insight and compassion...Hollis elucidates the circuitous way of individuation.'
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Part 1 - The context, which is the problem, partly.... 1 Creating a life: the necessity of personal myth. 2 The core complexes. 3 The examined life. 4 People's stories. 5 Necessary fictions. 6 The problem of spiritual authority. Part 2 - Attitudes and practices for the second half of life. 7 Amor fati, the love of one's fate. 8 Redeeming ancestors. 9 Crisis. 10 The inescapable condition. 11 Mentors, teachers, gurus and sages. 12 The necessary mess of things. 13 The end of ambition. 14 Being small, being large. 15 Getting over it.... 16 Attending the soul. 17 Fundamentalist morality. 18 What is real beneath reality?. 19 What is our true duty?. 20 The camp of concentrated shadow work. 21 Sad stories of the death of kings. 22 Today nothing happened. 23 Reading the world. 24 The complexity of relationships. 25 The laughter of the gods. 26 Finding the blue light. Part 3 - Being here. 27 Gratitude. 28 So, where are we, then?

'...a powerful commentary on the importance of the examined life, illustrating how we may arrive at an understanding of our life choices and relationships by exploring our core complexes and personal history. With insight and compassion...Hollis elucidates the circuitous way of individuation.'

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