1st Edition
Minding the Self Jungian meditations on contemporary spirituality
Introduction. "New Wine Needs New Skins". Making Room for Divinity. Changing and Emerging God Images. The Way of Symbols. Attending to the Lunar Mind. Hints of Transcendence. Turning on the Transcendent Function. Not Just a Butterfly. Spirituality in the Psychoanalytic Context. Mapping the Psyche. Initiation into the Spirit of the Depths. Humanity’s Shadow Monster. The Problem of Ethics. The Gifts of Cultural Dialogue. Minding the Self.
Biography
Murray Stein is a training and supervising analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology, Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of many articles and books.
"Minding the Self is a brilliant account of the spiritual dilemmas of our time, using Jung’s life and work as a guide for modern readers. Murray Stein has a commendable style, which is scholarly and richly informed, and yet accessible to non-specialists and a general readership. He strikes the right note in this work, and should be rewarded by widespread recognition, from within and beyond the field of analytical psychology." – David Tacey, Professor of Literature, La Trobe University, Melbourne
"No living Jungian analyst has a better understanding of what Jung meant by individuation than Murray Stein, and the fifteen modest chapters of this book, his masterpiece, make the case for Jung’s project as a true "minding" of the self. Stein’s luminous prose mirrors the consciousness in the midst of complexity that is its subject, making evident that a psychological attitude of self-reflection can be, just as Jung believed, a most natural way to experience the elusive but definite spirit of the divine." - John Beebe, author of Integrity in Depth
