Full Description
Since the late 19th century, when the "new science" of psychology and interest in esoteric and occult phenomena converged - leading to the "discovery" of the unconscious - the dual disciplines of depth psychology and mysticism have been wed in an often unholy union. Continuing in this tradition, and the challenges it carries, this volume includes a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches to the study of depth psychology, mysticism, and mystical experience, spanning the fields of theology, religious studies, and the psychology of religion. Chapters include inquiries into the nature of self and consciousness, questions regarding the status and limits of mysticism and mystical phenomenon, and approaches to these topics from multiple depth psychological traditions.
Contents
Introduction.- Depth Psychology and Mystical Phenomena: The Challenge of the Numinous.- Rescuing Alexandria: Depth Psychology and the Return of Tropological Exegesis.- Dionysus in Depth: Mystes, Madness, and Method in James Hillman's Re-visioning of Psychology.- The Royal Road Meets the Data Highway.- Spirituality and the Challenge of Clinical Pluralism: Participatory Thinking in Psychotherapeutic Context.- Descriptive Disenchantment and Prescriptive Disillusionment: Myths, Mysticism, and Psychotherapeutic Interpretation.- Embodying Nonduality: Depth Psychology in American Mysticism.- Mysticism in Translation: Psychological Advances, Cautionary Tales.- Sigmund Freud and Jewish Mysticism: An Exploration.- Jung and Mysticism.- Mystic Descent: James Hillman and the Religious Imagination.- Apophasis and Psychoanalysis.- Divine Darkness and Divine Light: Alchemical Illumination and the Mystical Play Between Knowing and Unknowing.- Nothing Almost Sees Miracles! Self and No-Self in Depth Psychology and Mystical Theology.- "In Killing You Changed Death to Life": Transformation of the Self in St. John of the Cross and Carl Jung.- The Buddhist Unconscious (Alaya-vijnana) and Jung's Collective Unconscious: What Does It Mean to be Liberated from the Self?.
