Jungian Dimensions of the Mourning Process, Burial Rituals and Access to the Land of the Dead Intimations of Immortality

Introduction

Elizabeth Brodersen

Part 1: Cross cultural, liminal relations with the dead

1. Day of the dead in Los Angeles as numinosum

Valeria Céspedes Musso

2. A comparative, ethnographic study of the journey to the land of the dead

Elizabeth Brodersen

3. Crossing the bridge to uncertainty, a life with death and the dead

John Hill

Part 2: Pandemics and access to immortality

4. Splintered Afterlives: Aids, death and beyond

Paul Attinello

5. C.G. Jung, Gloria Anzaldua and social activism's possibility

Robin Mccoy Brooks

Part 3: Burial rituals: crossing over

6. Bardo, Noh Play and zeitgeist in Japan

Yasuhiro Suzuki

7. Pandemic, the zenith of an archetypal disconnection

Fernando Mendes

Part 4: Grief, mourning and loss: clinical dimensions

8. The problem of death and meaning for depth psychology

Erik Goodwyn

9. When the mourning process needs psychiatric support

Gerold Roth

Part 5: Eros, death and  the unconscious

10. Deceased loved ones in dreams

Verena Kast

11. Immortality, mourning and ritual

Susan E. Schwartz

Part 6: Towards an archetypal ontology of death

12. The seduction of immortality: Jung, Heidegger, and Hegel on death

Jon Mills

13. Destiny and personal myth: archetypal constellations of the soul

Vicente L. de Moura

Part 7: Psycho-social dimensions of grief and the mourning process

14. Opening the eyes to invisible people

Idalina Souza

15. The Katako syndrome: Japan's problem with youth suicide

Hiroko Sakata and Cécile Buckenmeyer

Biography

Elizabeth Brodersen, PhD, is an accredited Jungian Training Analyst and Supervisor at the CGJI Zürich and currently a member of the Institute’s Research Commission. Elizabeth received her doctorate in psycho-social psychoanalytic studies at the University of Essex, UK, and works as a Jungian analyst in a private practice in Germany and Switzerland.

"This is a remarkable collection of essays on our relations with the dead and the mourning process. The authors are wide-ranging in their areas of expertise, drawing from social anthropology, history, philosophy, Jungian studies, and psychoanalysis, but together they provide both broad and penetrating insight into this most personal of our universally human concerns. Dr Brodersen is to be commended for this fine contribution to Thanatology studies."

Dr Roger Brooke, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Jungian scholar, Duquesne University, author of Jung and Phenomenology. 

"Like the vegetative nervous system that regulates digestion, heart rate and breathing without our having to think about them, many of our rituals of mourning operate beneath the surface to smooth the passages of life to death. This daring and complex volume explores those rituals and passages from many cultures intended to move us from this life to the next, although the transition is often seen to be anything but effortless for the living and the dead."

Thomas Singer, MD. Psychiatrist and Jungian Psychoanalyst, editor of the award-winning Cultural Complexes and The Soul of America

"Jungian analysts and scholars have come together in this rich and creative collection to explore the universal facets of death, dying and the mourning processes that affect all of us. The content will appeal to therapists working with the archetypal in grief and dreams of the dead. Equally, those interested in the historic terrain of the land of the dead and burying rituals will find an anthropological sensibility to the topics. The collection is a significant contribution that expands collective psychoanalytic knowledge by assisting clients to traverse　these experiences around death. This will inevitably become a seminal collection and resource in future for Jungians."

Dr Stephani Stephens, Psychotherapist and a lecturer in Counselling at the University of Canberra in Canberra, Australia and author of C.G.Jung and the Dead; Visions, Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain.

"The wide-spread contents and different perspectives on death, mourning processes, burial rituals and intimations of immortality assembled in this book address various cross-cultural approaches to various aspects of death. As an archetypal experience, death has and will always raise many unanswered questions that challenge all of us. The present book is an attempt to address these issues from a Jungian point of view. Each author gives profound insight based on his or her personal field of interest and is written from the heart. This is indeed a courageous book that will help the reader to confront difficult issues and find a larger view on a life experience that is often feared, but inevitable."

Evy Tausky, Jungian Training Analyst and Supervisor, President of the Curatorium of the C.G. Jung-Institute, Zürich