Paperback: 250 pages Publisher: Spring Pubns (September 1972) Language: English

Patterns of Creativity Mirrored in Creation Myths

Von Franz, Marie-Louise

Religion & Spirituality

Spring Pubns

Alchemy in a Modern Woman: A Study in the Contrasexual Archetype (SEMINAR SERIES)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Grinnell, Robert

Psychology & Counseling

Celtic Quest: Sexuality and Soul in Individuation.

Celtic Quest: Sexuality and Soul in Individuation (SEMINAR SERIES)

Literature & Fiction

Layard, John

Mythology & Folk Tales

Hermes, Guide of Souls: The Mythologem of the Masculine Source of Life (Dunquin Series, No 7)

Karl Kerényi

With this book James Hillman initiated the "soul movement" in psychotherapy forty years ago. 
Soul and suicide are dominant issues of this new millenium; soul because it cannot be reduced to genes and chromosomes; suicide because it raises fundamental religious, political, and legal conflicts. As Hillman writes in the postscript to the second edition: "The individual consists of more than his or her personal individuality. Something besides 'myself' inhabits the soul, takes part in its life and has a say in its death . . . We need a . . . definition of self as the interiorization of community. Suicide, literally 'self-killing,' now would mean both a killing of community and involvement of community in the killing." 
This new edition is introduced by the eminent psychiatrist and pioneering social critic, Thomas Szasz.

Suicide and the Soul (Dunquin Series: No. 8)

Hillman, James

Medical Books

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

Cowan, Lyn

Originally written for the Italian Enciclopedia del Novocento, this indispensable book is a concise, instructive introduction to polytheism, Greek mythology, the soul-spirit distinction, animal images, psychopathology, imagination, and the writings of C.G. Jung, Henry Corbin, and Adolf Portmann in the formulation of the field of Archetypal Psychology.  This long-awaited amended third edition includes a complete checklist of Hillman's writings and a comprehensive bibliography of publications in the field.

Archetypal Psychology: A Brief Account

This book examines the haunting, sad, and lovely depths of the Japanese soul by studying their idiosyncratic figures: terrible women who eat people, obscene escapes from the Oni monsters, brother-sister bonds, undersea dragon palaces, movements between "worlds". We learn why so few tales end in a "happily-ever-after" marriage, and why the female figure best represents the culture's ego and possible future. 
 Prof. Kawai, the first Jungian analyst in Japan, has received many honors including distinguished literary prizes for this book. He now holds a most senior position in the Ministry of Culture.

The Japanese Psyche: Major Motifs in the Fairy Tales of Japan

Kawai, Hayao

On Paranoia (Eranos Lectures Series, 8)

Jan Bauer and Ginette Paris discuss the impossibilities of certain great and not so great loves and how a love affair can feed off of impossibility. An ear-opening yet funny talk by two hot archetypal thinkers.

Impossible Love

Paris, Ginette

Bauer, Jan

Parenting & Relationships

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