Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field
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Publisher Description
Every book has a biography and every collection of essays a collective history. This first harvesting of essays from many of the faculty who teach at Pacifica Graduate Institute is witness to how Depth Psychology has established itself as its own unique field of study with its own ontological awareness of the human person. Developed in the spirit of C.G. Jung, and extended by the work of James Hillman, “Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field” grows directly from the soil of the Romantic Movement of the 19th century, itself a rebellion against the legacy of Enlightenment fundamentalism, which emphasized the literal reality of the world, and feasted on measurement and the quantification of all knowledge.
These essays build on the observation outlined by Jung in his provocative introduction to “The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature”: “Since it is a characteristic of the psyche not only to be the source of all productivity but, more especially, to express itself in all the activities and achievements of the human mind, we can nowhere grasp the nature of the psyche per se but can meet it only in its various manifestations.” (p. 85)
We believe the essays in this volume honor the spirit of Jung’s regard for the psyche’s diverse expressions.
Contents
Introduction: Pacifica Graduate Institute – Unfolding a Dream
A Note from the Editors
Chapter 1: The Contemplative Self – The Spiritual Journey and Therapeutic Work
by Charles Asher
Chapter 2: Creativity as an Archetypal Calling
by Dianne Skafte
Chapter 3: Psyche’s Silent Muse – Desert and Wilderness
by Dennis Patrick Slattery
Chapter 4: Sigmund Freud’s Mythology of Soul – The Body As Dwelling Place of Soul
by Christine Downing
Chapter 5: A Depth Psychological Approach to the Sacred
by Lionel Corbett
Chapter 6: Religious Pluralism in the Service of the Psyche
by Patrick J. Mahaffey
Chapter 7: The Challenge to Stay Open – Buber and Bion
by Avedis Panajian
Chapter 8: Dreams are Alive
by Stephen Aizenstat
Chapter 9: Telling Our Stories – Making Meaning from Myth and Memoir
by Maureen Murdock
Chapter 10: Divinities of Marriage
by Ginette Paris
Chapter 11: The Chrysalis Experience – A Mythology for Times of Transition
by Hendrika de Vries
Chapter 12: Look Out – Three Occasions of Public Excitation
by James Hillman
Chapter 13: ‘A Myth is as Good as a Smile!’ – The Mythology of a Consumerist Culture
by David L. Miller
Chapter 14: Yes, Indeed! Do Call the World The Vale of Soul Making – Reveries Toward an Archetypal Presence
by Robert Romanyshyn
Chapter 15: Seeding Liberation – A Dialogue Between Depth Psychology and Liberation Psychology
by Mary Watkins
Chapter 16: The Presence of Absence: Mapping Postcolonial Spaces
by Helene Shulman Lorenz
Chapter 17: Prisoners of our Imagination – The Boys Inside the American Gulag
by Aaron Kipnis