Combining precise clinical descriptions with a wealth of cultural and mythic evidence, this book offers a radically new theory of masochism. Lyn Cowan, a practicing Jungian analyst, regards masochism as a manifestation of the "religious instinct." In a clear and straightforward style, Cowan stresses the symptoms of masochism, which range from the kinkiest of sexual aberrations to the covert pleasure felt in the minor hurts and humiliations of ordinary life. The author reads these symptoms both as signs of an actual sickness and as stirrings of the collective psyche. Included is a thorough discussion of the clinical literature - Krafft-Ebing, Freud, etc. - as well as cultural case studies, the Flagellants of medieval times. Through Cowan's careful research, masochism emerges as a preparation for death, a strange necessity of the psyche that can lead the reader deeper into the pleasure and pain of his or her own wounds and vulnerabilities, there to discover the germ of genuine individuality.

Masochism: A Jungian View

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Cowan, Lyn

Psychology & Counseling

Spring Pubns

Here is a new edition of a readable book on the psychology of masochism and how it is connected to religious feeling and depth. What are the true spiritual and psychological pleasures of shame, pain, humiliation, and submission? Are the secrets of these pleasures contained in the clinical literature—Krafft-Ebing, Freud, Jung, or Murray? Are the pathologies of masochism inherent in the religious belief in Dionysus, Lord of Souls, Lord of the Dead, and Jesus Christ? Cowan presents answers to these questions in a book as surprising, profound, and pleasurable.

Self-Help

Spring Publications

Tracking the White Rabbit: A Subversive View of Modern Culture

Since its beginning, depth psychology has attempted to change the status quo of individual and cultural life by probing beneath surface appearances. Lyn Cowan explores a number of subjects, considering what possible meanings and implications for change might lie behind the conventional attitudes toward such subjects as: * Abortion * Gender and sexuality * Language * Memory * Melancholy The author puts forward the argument that, although "psychology" and "subversion" are not usually thought of as belonging together, they should be. Such a view, presented clearly with humour and insight, offers a way to think differently about usual things, and yield fresh meaning to some of the pressing dilemmas of our time and how we as individuals may respond to them.

Tracking the White Rabbit

Mental Health

Routledge

Once imagined in past centuries as an affliction from the gods and as a majestic woman of power and wisdom, Dame Melancholy, the Blue Lady, has been reduced to a modern, impersonal clinical category. But we all get the blues sometimes, and how are we to understand what is going on in the psyche in those blue moods? This book, written in a lyrical style with wit and passion, intends to redeem melancholy and restore it to its rightful place in the human psyche, as a Muse of creative force, a characteristic of greatness, and a bittersweet comfort in the sensitive soul.

Portrait of the Blue Lady: The Character of Melancholy (Electra)

Spring Journal, Inc.

The stimulating program featured clinical, artistic, historical and other interests and concerns of Jungian. Psychology today, with wide-ranging presentations and events.

Barcelona 2004: Edges of Experience--Memory and Emergence

Daimon Verlag

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Masochism: A Jungian View

Masochism: A Jungian View

Tracking the White Rabbit: A Subversive View of Modern Culture

Tracking the White Rabbit

Portrait of the Blue Lady: The Character of Melancholy (Electra)

Barcelona 2004: Edges of Experience--Memory and Emergence