The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives / Edition 1

by Ann Casement, David Tacey

Overview

The Idea of the Numinous will fascinate all analytical psychologists, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists interested in investigating the overlap between therapeutic and religious interests

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781583917831
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/27/2006
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ann Casement is a training analyst at the Association of Jungian Analysts, London, which she represents on the IAAP executive committee.

David Tacey is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry at La Trobe University, Australia.

Table of Contents

Grotstein, Foreword. Casement, Tacey, Preface. Shamdasani, Psychologies as Ontology-making Practices: William James and the Pluralities of Psychological Experience. Casement, Witchcraft: The Numinous Power of Humans. Stein, On the Importance of Numinous Experience in the Alchemy of Individuation. Corbett, Varieties of Numinous Experience: The Experience of the Sacred in the Therapeutic Process. Kuras, Numinosity/Femininity. Ahumada, Vagaries of Numinous Experience: Two Questions to George Steiner. Rowland, Jung and Derrida: The Numinous, Deconstruction and Myth. Bishop, The Idea of the Numinous in Goethe and Jung. Giaccardi, Accessing the Numinous: Apolline and Dionysian Pathways. Main, Numinosity and Terror: Jung’s Psychological Revision of Otto as an Aid to Engaging Religious Fundamentalism. Dourley, Rerooting in the Mother: The Numinosity of the Night. Kawai, The Experience of the Numinous Today: From the Novels of Haruki Murakami. Huskinson, Holy, Holy, Holy: The Misappropriation of the Numinous in Jung. Tacey, The Role of the Numinous in the Reception of Jung.