Pathways into the Jungian world : phenomenology and analytical psychology

In Pathways into the Jungian World contributors from the disciplines of medicine, psychology and philosophy look at the central issues of commonality and difference between phenomenology and analytical psychology. The major theme of the book is how existential phenomenology and analytical psychology have been involved in the same fundamental cultural and therapeutic project - both legitimize the subtlety, complexity and depth of experience in an age when the meaning of experience has been abandoned to the dictates of pharmaceutical technology, economics and medical psychiatry. The contributors reveal how Jung's relationship to the phenomenological tradition can be, and is being, developed, and rigorously show that the psychological resonance of the world is immediately available for phenomenological description. Phenomenology Offers The Psychologist A Philosophical Underpinning To Clinical Practice. The Contributors Examine The Issues Of Commonality And Difference, And The Connection Between Existential Phenomenology And Analytical Psychology. Pt. 1. The Jungian World -- 1. Jung's Recollection Of The Life-world / Roger Brooke -- 2. Alchemy And The Subtle Body Of Metaphor: Soul And Cosmos / Robert D. Romanyshyn -- 3. In Destitute Times: Archetype And Existence In Rilke's Duino Elegies / Eva-maria Simms -- 4. The Anima Mundi And The Fourfold: Hillman And Heidegger On The Idea Of The World / Michael P. Sipiora -- 5. Spirit In The Tube: The Life Of Television / Ronald Schenk -- Pt. 2. The Jungian Imagination -- 6. Jung's Approach To The Phenomenology Of Religious Experience: A View From The Consulting Room / Lionel Corbett -- 7. Thanatos And Existence: Towards A Jungian Phenomenology Of The Death Instinct / Mark Welman -- 8. Mnemosyne And Lethe: Memory, Jung, Phenomenology / Charles E. Scott -- 9. Eros And Psyche: A Reading Of Neumann And Merleau-ponty / David Michael Levin -- 10. The Metaphor Of Light And Its Deconstruction In Jung's Alchemical Vision / Stanton Marlan -- Pt. 3. Therapeutic Issues -- 11. Eros And Chaos: The Mysteries And Shadows Of Love / Veronica Goodchild -- 12. Depth Psychology And The Liberation Of Being / Mary Watkins -- 13. Phenomenology, Analytical Psychology, And Play Therapy / Bertha Mook -- 14. Analyzing From The Self: An Empirical Phenomenology Of The Third In Analysis / John Ryan Haule. Edited By Roger Brooke. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Jung is describing here the world of his early school years, in which he bore witness to the consecrated nature of Being.