Edward F. Edinger

This book is about the individual's journey to psychological wholeness, known in analytical psychology as the process of individuation. Edward Edinger traces the stages in this process and relates them to the search for meaning through encounters with symbolism in religion, myth, dreams, and art. For contemporary men and women, Edinger believes, the encounter with the self is equivalent to the discovery of God. The result of the dialogue between the ego and the archetypal image of God is an experience that dramatically changes the individual's worldview and makes possible a new and more meaningful way of life.

Edward F. Edinger, M.D., a founding member of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology in New York, is the author of many books on Jungian psychology, including The Eternal Drama and Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy.

Ego and Archetype

"Edinger has greatly enriched my understanding of psychology through the avenue of alchemy. No other contribution has been as helpful as this for revealing, in a word, the anatomy of the psyche and how it applies to where one is in his or her process. This is a significant amplification and extension of Jung's work. Two hundred years from now, it will still be a useful handbook and an inspiring aid to those who care about individuation." -- Psychological Perspectives

Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy

Anatomy of the Psyche

Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Athenaandmdash;do the gods and goddesses of Greece have anything to say to us that we haven't already heard? In this book, based on a series of his lectures, the eminent Jungian analyst and writer Edward F. Edinger revisits all the major figures, myths, oracles, and legends of the ancient Greek religion to discover what they can still revealandmdash;representing, as they do, one of the religious and mythic foundations of Western culture. Building on C. G. Jung's assertion that mythology is an expression of the deepest layers of mind and soul, Dr. Edinger follows the mythic images into their persistent manifestations in literature and on into our modern lives. He finds that the gods indeed continue to speak as we grow in our capacity to listen and that the myths express the inner energies within all of us as much as ever. Heracles is eternally performing his labors, Perseus is still confronting Medusa, Theseus is forever stalking the Minotaur, and Persephone is still being carried off to life in a new realm.

The Inner Meaning of Greek Mythology

The Eternal Drama

Seminal work by the author of Ego and Archetype, proposing a new world-view based on the creative collaboration between the scientific pursuit of knowledge and the religious search for meaning.

Jung's Myth for Modern Man

The Creation of Consciousness

Explores Biblical lore as a self-revelation of the objective psyche and a rich compendium of archetypal images representing humanity's successive encounters with the numinosum (a.k.a. God, the Self, etc.) Many examples from dreams and more than forty years of clinical practice.

Individuation Symbolism in the Old Testament

The Bible and the Psyche

Penetrating commentary on the Job story as a numinous, archetypal event, and as a paradigm for conflicts of duty that can lead to enhanced consciousness.

A Jungian Commentary on William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job

Encounter with the Self

Individuation Symbolism in the Old Testament (Studies in Jungian Psychology No. 24)

A Jungian Commentary

Melville's Moby Dick 

Joan Dexter Blackmer

A comprehensive study illuminating the depth and scope of Jung's magnum opus and its relevance to everyday life. A treasury of material for understanding modern dreams and other unconscious contents.

A Journey Through C.G. Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis

The Mysterium Lectures

Five meaty essays by the late dean of American Jungian analysts, including: The Transference Phenomenon, The Therapeutic Life, The Vocation of Depth Psychotherapy, Encounter with the Greater Personality, and Science of the Soul.

A Jungian Perspective

Science of the Soul

Deborah A. Wesley

The early church and gnosticism are represented by St Paul and Simon Magus of Samaria. This text focuses on the ideas of these two men and their lineage. The author summarizes how these paradigms evolved and their psychological significance for the individual and contemporary ideas in religion.

The Psyche in Antiquity: Gnosticism and early Christianity, from Paul of Tarsus to Augustine

A Seminar on C.G. Jung's Symbols of Transformation

Transformation of Libido

Title #71. Jung's Aion laid the foundation for a whole new scholarly discipline that could be called archetypal psychohistory. It applies the insights of depth psychology to the analysis of cultural development, here focusing on the idea of the God-image, or Self, as it has evolved over 2,000 years of Western thinking. An edited transcript of the lecture series given at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, 1988-89.

Exploring the Self in C.G. Jung's Aion

The Aion Lectures

John Gary Sparks

From Isaiah to Malachi, this text is a psychological commentary on Old Testament prophecies, the details of which can be perceived as a dialogue between the Self and the developing ego. This discussion is a continuation of Dr Edinger's detailed exegesis begun in The Bible and the Psyche.

The Old Testament Prophets : from Isaiah to Malachi

Ego and Self

Rather than examining early philosophy as a whole, this text tracks the psyche as it manifests itself in the archetypal ideas of the ancient Greeks. The author's perspective redeems Greek philosophy by relating its ideas to modern psychological experience.

The Psyche in Antiquity: Early Greek philosophy, from Thales to Plotinus

Edinger puts a human face on the union of opposites in two concise essays: "Introduction to Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis" and "A Psychological Interpretation of the Rosarium Pictures"--the alchemical drawings on which Jung based The Psychology of the Transference.

Alchemical Image of Individuation : Lectures

The Mystery of the Coniunctio

Answer to Job, dealing with the transformation of God through human consciousness, contains the essence of the Jungian myth. This down-to-earth study evokes that essence with unequaled clarity. Originally seminars given at the Jung Institute of Los Angeles.

An Elucidation of Jung's Answer to Job

Transformation of the God-image

This text, which examines such plays as Measure for Measure, and Oedipus the King, traces the archetypal manifestations of the sacred marriage, the search for wholeness, and the tragic hero, through psychological analysis of Shakespeare and Sophocles.

Individuation Motifs in Shakespeare and Sophocles

The Psyche on Stage

A Jungian Analysis in Pictures

The Living Psyche

The picture featured on the cover is entitled "The Bungalow in My Home Town with the Great House in the Back- Flowering Trees." Dr. Edinger's comment reads, "The great house behind the modest on is an allusion to the Greater Personality behind the ego. The theme continues of paradisial containment in good Mother Nature. This represents a numinous nature-experience, a healing encounter with the original source of one's being. It is reminiscent of Jung's earliest memory: I am lying in a pram, in the shadow of a tree. It is a fine warm summer day, the sky blue, and golden sunlight darting through the green leaves. The hood of the pram has been left up. I have just awakened to the glorious beauty of the day, and have a sense of indescribable we-being. I see the sun Glittering through the leaves and blossoms of the bushes. Everything is wholly wonderful, colorful and splendid." (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 6) The paintings in this book provide a rare opportunity to experience the work of an artist and the reality of the living psyche. The patient/artist began analysis at the age of 36 with the chief complain that, in spite of a successful career in the arts, he had lost his sense of purpose in life and was on the verge of despair. The pictures were done over a period of five years during the course of Jungian analysis. They touch on all the major themes of the analysis and constitute a remarkable record of analytic experience that ranged from the heights to the depths, from the infernal to the sublime.

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