The Symbolic Quest

Author: Edward C. Whitmont
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691213186
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
This book explores the use and development of man's symbolizing capacities-those qualities that make him distinctly human. Dr. Whitmont describes the symbolic approach to a dream, which takes into account a symptom's meaning in reference to an unfolding wholeness of personality. He then presents the view that the instinctual urge for meaning is served by the symbolizing capacities, and that this urge has been repressed in our time. In the field of psychology, this symbolic approach is most fully exemplified by the theories of C. G. Jung. The author's contribution includes many differentiations and speculations, especially concerning the problems of relatedness.

The Knight on His Quest

Author: Piotr Sadowski
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135800
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
This book offers an integrated interpretative analysis of the major thematic aspects of the English fourteenth-century romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The chief aim of author Piotr Sadowski is to look at the contents of the narrative in their entirety and to take full advantage of the poem's exceptional and widely praised harmony of structure and design. Within that design, Sadowski focuses on the poem's presentation of the main protagonist and his adventures, seen first of all as a generalized metaphor of the human life understood as a spiritual quest, and, in a more historical sense, as an expression and critique of certain ideals, values, and anxieties that characterized the late medieval institutions of the court, chivalry, and the Church. Sadowski built the interpretive framework of Sir Gawain from an eclectic theoretical base that he believes is most valuable and useful in approaching medieval literature. The main focus of the study remains the literary text itself, created by an author who communicates his view of the world through the poem.

Dreams, a Portal to the Source

Author: Edward C. Whitmont
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415064538
Category : Dream interpretation
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Koinonia and the Quest for an Ecumenical Ecclesiology

Author: Lorelei F. Fuchs
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 080284023X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 600

Book Description
The word koinonia has gained prominence in recent ecumenical discussions. In this original and substantial work Lorelei Fuchs proposes the theological idea of koinonia, commonly translated as "communion" or "fellowship," as the key to moving fractured churches toward a future unity. Fuchs challenges churches to move beyond mere dialogue and to apply ecumenical insights at the local level. She begins by relating the exegetical meaning of koinonia to its ecumenical meaning, tracing the place of koinonia both within the churches and between the churches. She then examines the concept of koinonia in the extensive and fruitful dialogues that have taken place between Lutherans, Anglicans, and Roman Catholics, finally articulating a "symbolic competence for communionality" that provides a rich and workable way forward for church unity at all levels. Encompassing the latest in ecumenical thought, Koinonia and the Quest for an Ecumenical Ecclesiology provides a broad, thoughtful framework for realizing Christ's prayer "that all may be one . . . so that the world may believe."

Psyche and Substance

Author: Edward C. Whitmont, M.D.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781556431067
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Providing an understanding of the nature of the archetypal form-patterns that express themselves in the similarity between substance and psychosomatic dynamics, this collection explores why this similarity is a basic factor in the healing process.

Quests

Author: Jeff Howard
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439880816
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
This unique take on quests, incorporating literary and digital theory, provides an excellent resource for game developers. Focused on both the theory and practice of the four main aspects of quests (spaces, objects, actors, and challenges) each theoretical section is followed by a practical section that contains exercises using the Neverwinter Nigh

Dreams, A Portal to the Source

Author: Edward C. Whitmont
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113585727X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
First published in 1991. An introductory guidebook to dream interpretation which will be of interest to analysts and therapists both in practice and training and to a wider readership interested in the origins and significance of dreams. This book should be of interest to dream psychology analysts, therapists, counsellors, and the general reader.

Conrad in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Ian Watt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520036833
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
"Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s."--"New York Times"

The Symbolic Quest

Author: Edward C. Whitmont
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780060903428
Category : Jungian psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description

The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities

Author: Dennis Walder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136750053
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary, Portrait of a Lady and The Woman in White. The book continues with a consideration of the novel at the fin de siecle, examining Dracula, The Awakening and Heart of Darkness. These fascinating essays illuminate the ways in which the conventions of realism were disrupted as much by anxieties surrounding colonialism, decadence, degeneration and the 'New Woman' as by those new ideas about human psychology which heralded the advent of psychoanalysis. The concepts which are crucial to the understanding of the literature and society of the nineteenth century are brilliantly explained and discussed in this essential volume.