Ego and Archetype

Author: Edward F. Edinger
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834823896
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 445

Book Description
A medical psychiatrist and founding member of the Jung Foundation explores a pivotal part of analytical psychology: encountering the self through individuation This book is about the individual’s journey to psychological wholeness, known in analytical psychology as the process of individuation. Edward Edinger traces the stages in this process and relates them to the search for meaning through encounters with symbolism in religion, myth, dreams, and art. For contemporary men and women, Edinger believes, the encounter with the self is equivalent to the discovery of God. The result of the dialogue between the ego and the archetypal image of God is an experience that dramatically changes the individual’s worldview and makes possible a new and more meaningful way of life.

Archetype of the Apocalypse

Author: Edward F. Edinger
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
ISBN: 9780812695168
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
The collective belief in Armageddon has become more powerful and widespread in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Edward Edinger looks at the chaos predicted by the Book of Revelation and relates it to current trends including global violence, AIDS, and apocalyptic cults.

Encounter with the Self

Author: Edward F. Edinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
Penetrating commentary on the Job story as a numinous, archetypal event, and as a paradigm for conflicts of duty that can lead to enhanced consciousness.

A Blue Fire

Author: James Hillman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060921013
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
A vitally important introduction to the theories of one of the most original thinkers in psychology today, A Blue Fire gathers selected passages from many of Hillman's seminal essays on archetypal psychology.

Ego and Archetype

Author: Edward F. Edinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archetype (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description

Transformation of the God-image

Author: Edward F. Edinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
Answer to Job, dealing with the transformation of God through human consciousness, contains the essence of the Jungian myth. This down-to-earth study evokes that essence with unequaled clarity. Originally seminars given at the Jung Institute of Los Angeles.

The Eternal Drama

Author: Edward F. Edinger
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834828685
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 267

Book Description
A Jungian exploration of the figures of Greek mythology, revealing what the stories and their continued significance represent about our modern lives Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Athena—do the gods and goddesses of Greece have anything to say to us that we haven't already heard? In this book, based on a series of his lectures, the eminent Jungian analyst and writer Edward F. Edinger revisits all the major figures, myths, oracles, and legends of the ancient Greek religion to discover what they can still reveal—representing, as they do, one of the religious and mythic foundations of Western culture. Building on C. G. Jung's assertion that mythology is an expression of the deepest layers of mind and soul, Dr. Edinger follows the mythic images into their persistent manifestations in literature and on into our modern lives. He finds that the gods indeed continue to speak as we grow in our capacity to listen and that the myths express the inner energies within all of us as much as ever. Heracles is eternally performing his labors, Perseus is still confronting Medusa, Theseus is forever stalking the Minotaur, and Persephone is still being carried off to life in a new realm.

Jungian Archetypes

Author: Robin Robertson
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504033779
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 437

Book Description
Twenty-five hundred years ago, Pythagoras taught that the simple counting numbers are the basic building blocks of reality. A century and a half later, Plato argued that the world we live in is but a poor copy of the world of ideas. Neither realized that their numbers and ideas might also be the most basic components of the human psych: archetypes. This book traces the modern evolution of this idea from the Renaissance to the 20th century, leading up to the archetypal hypothesis of psychologist C. G. Jung, and the mirroring of mathematical ideas of Kurt Gödel.

Anatomy of the Psyche

Author: Edward F. Edinger
Publisher: Reality of the Psyche Series
ISBN: 9780812690095
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Edinger has greatly enriched my understanding of psychology through the avenue of alchemy. No other contribution has been as helpful as this for revealing, in a word, the anatomy of the psyche and how it applies to where one is in his or her process. This is a significant amplification and extension of Jung's work. Two hundred years from now, it will still be a useful handbook and an inspiring aid to those who care about individuation". -- Psychological Perspectives

Explorations into the Self

Author: Michael Fordham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429913427
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 343

Book Description
This rewarding work is the product of sustained observation of and reflection on phenomena arising out of three broad topics in the field of analytical psychology. Firstly it analyses and evaluates the ambiguity in Jung's definitions and metaphors about the self, while at the same time expounding the theory of the self as a dynamic system, evolving through deintegration and reintegration processes during early infancy and childhood. Secondly it investigates the relation of the ego to the self, giving notable consideration to psychoanalytic work. Finally the presence of the self, behind or within both the religious and the alchemical experience, is explored. Fordham's innovative and original view of the self further extends our understanding of its dynamics and helps to establish some sense of the complementariness as well as differences between Jung and Klein.