250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Empirical foundation, hypoth and theories , The self in Jung’s works , Individuation and ego development , Integration–deintegration in infancy , A possible root of active imagination , Ego and self , The self as an imaginative construct , The ego and the self , Mental health , A clinical study , An interpretation of Jung’s thesis about synchronicity , Countertransference , Defences of the self , Jungian views of body–mind , Religion, mysticism, alchemy , Is God supernatural? , Notes on the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross , Alchemy , Concluding reflections
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Michael Fordham
