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Freud's most influential discovery was the importance of what he called psychic reality in the functioning of the mind. Melanie Klein has mined thoroughly the vein of mental life that he discovered, and the results of her work have had an impact on psychoanalytic thinking throughout the world. In this text, Dr Caper shows how Melanie Klein's studies of sexuality, aggression, unconscious phantasy and identification in children, both extended and corrected Freud's theories of the early development of the superego and the early stages of the Oedipus complex in both boys and girls. Klein's...

"This book is a concatenation of sparks of religious light.... Gnosticism is to be understood as the ongoing formulation of freshly imagined spirits, a logos of what we can know about those moments when the religious experience itself breaks through the veils of dogma to assert the psychological reality of a living redemptive godhead". -- John Beebe Editor, Journal of Analytical Psychology

Gnosticism was for C.G. jung the chief prefiguration of his analytical psychology. In this volume Robert Segal, an authority on theories of myth and Gnosticism, has searched the Jungian corpus for Jung's main discussions of this ancient form of spirituality. The progression in Gnosticism from sheer bodily existence to the release of the immaterial spark imprisoned in the body - and the reunion of that spark with the godhead - represents for Jung the psychological progression from ego consciousness to the ego's rediscovery of the unconscious, and the ego's integration with the unconscious to...