1st Edition

On Behalf of the Mystical Fool Jung on the Religious Situation

By John P. Dourley Copyright 2010
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Jung's explanation of the religious tendency of the psyche addresses many sides of the contemporary debate on religion and the role that it has in individual and social life. This book discusses the emergence of a new mythic consciousness and details ways in which this consciousness supersedes traditional concepts of religion to provide a spirituality of more universal inclusion. On Behalf... Read more

Jungian Psychology and Spirituality. The Numinous, The Universal, and a Myth of Supersession. Taking Back Divinity: Jung on the Relativity of God. Martin Buber and The Lunatic Asylum. Jung, White and the End of the Pilgrimage. The Mystical Fool and Why the Killing Must Go On. C. G. Jung, S. P. Huntington and the Search for Civilization. Jung and the Recall of The Gods. Rerooting in the Mother: The Numinosity of the Nothing. Jung, Some Mystics and the Void; Personal and Political Implications.

Biography

John Dourley is Professor Emeritus, Department of Religion, at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He graduated as a Jungian analyst from the Zurich/Kusnacht Institute in 1980 and has published widely on Jung and religion. His most recent books include Paul Tillich, Carl Jung, and the Recovery of Religion (Routledge, 2008).