Explorations into the Self

ISBN-13: 9781855759718 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 250 str.

Fordham Michael; Michael Fordham

Opis

This rewarding work is the product of sustained observation of and reflection on phenomena arising out of three broad topics in the field of analytical psychology. Firstly it analyses and evaluates the ambiguity in Jung's definitions and metaphors about the self. Secondly it investigates the relation of the ego to the self. Finally the presence of the self is explored. Fordham's innovative and original view of the self further extends our understanding of its dynamics and helps to establish some sense of the complementariness as well as differences between Jung and Klein.

Spis treści

Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Empirical foundation, hypoth and theories , The self in Jung’s works , Individuation and ego development , Integration–deintegration in infancy , A possible root of active imagination , Ego and self , The self as an imaginative construct , The ego and the self , Mental health , A clinical study , An interpretation of Jung’s thesis about synchronicity , Countertransference , Defences of the self , Jungian views of body–mind , Religion, mysticism, alchemy , Is God supernatural? , Notes on the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross , Alchemy , Concluding reflections

O autorze

Michael Fordham