Jung realized that the fantastic images of alchemy - fire-breathing dragons, hermaphrodites, lions giving birth to the sun - are not so far from our daily lives. He made sense of such seemingly incomprehensible symbols and showed how, in fact, such images represent a usually unseen level that has immense power over how we feel, think and imagine our existence. Nathan Schwartz-Salant, a leading Jungian analyst with a special interest in alchemy, has brought together a key selection of Jung's writings on alchemy. His lucid introduction provides a clear account of the basics of alchemy and...
Jung realized that the fantastic images of alchemy - fire-breathing dragons, hermaphrodites, lions giving birth to the sun - are not so far from our d...
Human relationships are regarded as containers of emotional life, but what are the structures underlying them? The author of this text looks at all kinds of relationships from the analyst's perspective. By analogy with the ancient theory of alchemy he shows how mad states of mind can undermine our relationships - in marriage, in creative work, in the workplace - but become transformative when brought to consciousness. It is only by learning how to access the interactive field of our relationships that we can enter this transformative process and explore its potential for self-realization.
Human relationships are regarded as containers of emotional life, but what are the structures underlying them? The author of this text looks at all ki...
A woman's dream of being trapped in a black nightgown reveals a dread that dominates her psyche and blocks her development as a self. In her story and others', Jungian analyst Nathan Schwartz-Salant reveals how the same complex characterizes our society as a whole. This archetypal pattern is called the Fusional Complex.
The Fusional Complex is like the Renaissance alchemists' prima materia, said to be vile and worthless, ubiquitous and easily discarded, and yet essential for the creation of that most highly prized goal of the alchemical opus: the lapis, a symbol of the self. Like the...
A woman's dream of being trapped in a black nightgown reveals a dread that dominates her psyche and blocks her development as a self. In her story ...
Murray Stein (International School for A Nathan Schwartz-Salant
Jungian theories and clinical approaches to the central therapeutic and developmental issue of abandonment are featured with topics covering early infancy, the creative woman, transformation, and others.
Contents
Michael Fordham - Abandonment in Infancy
Marion Woodman - Abandonment in the Creative Woman
Jeffrey Satinover - At the Mercy of Another: Abandonment and Restitution in Psychosis and Psychotic Character
Patricia Berry-Hillman - Some...
Jungian theories and clinical approaches to the central therapeutic and developmental issue of abandonment are featured with topics covering early ...
Murray Stein (International School for A Nathan Schwartz-Salant
No other clinical syndrome better illustrates the richness and resources of the Jungian approach. Experts in the field offer new insights into treating the borderline personality. Papers by Schwartz-Salant, Charlton, Kacirek, Beebe, Dieck.
Contents:
Nathan Schwartz-Salant - Before the Creation: The Unconscious Couple in Borderline States of Mind
Randolph Charlton - Lines and Shadows: Fictions from the Borderline
Susanne Kacirek - Subject-Object Differentiation in the...
No other clinical syndrome better illustrates the richness and resources of the Jungian approach. Experts in the field offer new insights into trea...
