1st Edition
C.G. Jung and Nikolai Berdyaev: Individuation and the Person A Critical Comparison
Papadopoulos, Foreword. General Introduction. Berdyaev’s Life. An Introduction to Berdyaev’s Philosophy. The Foundations of Berdyaev’s Personalism. Anthropological and Psychological Reduction. Person in Jung and Berdyaev. Berdyaev’s Understanding of the Person. Jung’s Understanding of the Person. Individuation and Spiritual Experience. Esse in Anima and the Epistemology of the Heart. Epistemology of the Heart. Esse in Anima: Towards Psychological Religion. Psychological Idealism and Existential Intuition. Person and God-image. Trinity and Divine-humanity in Berdyaev. Jung’s Psychological Interpretation of the Christian God-image. Pneuma and Psychic Energy. Individuation and the Ethics of Creativity. Berdyaev’s Ethics of Creativity. Jung’s Ethics of Individuation. Conclusion: Moving Beyond the Pre/Trans Fallacy.
Biography
Georg Nicolaus is a UKCP registered psychotherapist in private practice. He has studied philosophy in Munich, Germany, and has a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies from the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK
"Georg Nicolaus' writing leaps beyond mere comparison of systems of Depth Psychology and spirituality, establishing a foundation for a true Spiritual Psychology. Depth psychology has long needed a balancing of the dark interior sufferings of the psyche with the soul’s openness to the truth of Divine radiance. Here it is!" - Robert Sardello, author of Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness and Director of The School of Spiritual Psychology, USA
"Jung and Berdyaev were self-consciously modern thinkers with very different backgrounds: Swiss Protestantism and Russian Orthodoxy. Central to them both was the notion of the person, not as a given, but as a creative opportunity. Dr Nicolaus’ thoughtful book is the first to bring their ideas into dialogue." - Andrew Louth, Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, Durham University, UK
