Explorations into the Self.
Title:
Explorations into the Self.
Author:
Fordham, Michael.
ISBN:
9781849400299
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (250 pages)
Series:
The Library of Analytical Psychology
Contents:
COVER -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One Empirical foundation, hypotheses and theories -- Chapter One The self in Jung 's works -- Chapter Two Individuation and ego development -- Chapter Three Integration -deintegration in infancy -- Chapter Four A possible root of active imagination -- Part Two Ego and self -- Chapter Five The self as an imaginative construct -- Chapter Six The ego and the self -- Chapter Seven Mental health -- Chapter Eight A clinical study -- Chapter Nine An interpretation of Jung's thesis about synchronicity -- Chapter Ten Countertransfrence -- Chapter Eleven Defences of the self -- Chapter Twelve Jungian views of body-mind -- Part Three Religion, mysticism, alchemy -- Chapter Thirteen Is God supernatural? -- Chapter Fourteen Notes on the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross -- Chapter Fifteen Alchemy -- Chapter Sixteen Concluding reflections -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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, while at the same time expounding the theory of the self as a dynamic system, evolving through deintegration and reintegration processes during early infancy and childhood. Secondly it investigates the relation of the ego to the self, giving notable consideration to psychoanalytic work. Finally the presence of the self, behind or within both the religious and the alchemical experience, 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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