Daryl Sharp

Mary Esther Harding

This is a new edition of this much-loved classic of Jungian psychology. The Parental Image explores the various stages of maturation and the challenges faced by each person who seeks authentic independence. Dr. Harding describes in depth the task of each level of development as we venture into the world and create a life. The author makes it clear that this struggle has always been both necessary and liberating.

Its Injury and Reconstruction : a Study in Analytical Psychology

The Parental Image

Laura Mei

For people today, the rites of [religion] have lost their 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢. For those to whom they still express the needs of the unconscious psyche, these rituals can indeed be healing. But for many this is not so. They have to seek out a personal relation to the unconscious, by means of which they can live a redemptive ritual of their own. And for some, at least, the search for the truth within themselves leads to an encounter wherein the archetypal images aroused in their unconscious display the ancient story of rebirth and the way toward individuation. Indeed, it is most important that children and adults should be exposed to myth and ritual, because helpful archetypal images are in this way activated in the unconscious.

The Parental Image Its Injury and Reconstruction : a Study in Analytical Psychology

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