1st Edition

The Idea of the Numinous Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Edited By Ann Casement, David Tacey Copyright 2007
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The idea of the numinous is often raised in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic contexts, but it is rarely itself subjected to close scrutiny. This volume examines how the numinous has gained currency in the post-modern world, demonstrating how the numinous is no longer confined to religious discourses but is included in humanist, secular and scientific views of the world. Questions of soul... Read more

Grotstein, Foreword. Casement, Tacey, Preface. Shamdasani, Psychologies as Ontology-making Practices: William James and the Pluralities of Psychological Experience. Casement, Witchcraft: The Numinous Power of Humans. Stein, On the Importance of Numinous Experience in the Alchemy of Individuation. Corbett, Varieties of Numinous Experience: The Experience of the Sacred in the Therapeutic Process. Kuras, Numinosity/Femininity. Ahumada, Vagaries of Numinous Experience: Two Questions to George Steiner. Rowland, Jung and Derrida: The Numinous, Deconstruction and Myth. Bishop, The Idea of the Numinous in Goethe and Jung. Giaccardi, Accessing the Numinous: Apolline and Dionysian Pathways. Main, Numinosity and Terror: Jung’s Psychological Revision of Otto as an Aid to Engaging Religious Fundamentalism. Dourley, Rerooting in the Mother: The Numinosity of the Night. Kawai, The Experience of the Numinous Today: From the Novels of Haruki Murakami. Huskinson, Holy, Holy, Holy: The Misappropriation of the Numinous in Jung. Tacey, The Role of the Numinous in the Reception of Jung.

Biography

Ann Casement is a training analyst at the Association of Jungian Analysts, London, which she represents on the IAAP executive committee.

David Tacey is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry at La Trobe University, Australia.