This inquiry is a cultural and historical hermeneutic that maps classical Jungian anima/animus theory over the lives and work of selected female Surrealist artists and writers. The goal is to see how this data might expand or reconfigure the concept of Individuation as Jung desc…
What is the ancestral shadow, and how can an imaginal exploration help an individual to heal and integrate the shadow of multiple generations? Drawing on Carl Jung’s theory of the shadow, the ancestral shadow is explored in this thesis as being a part of the unconscious that hol…
This dissertation examines the quandary of modern societal dislocation and fragmentation due to loss of traditional forms of making meaning and culture cohesion such as institutionalized religious affiliations, public education, and shared values community building.
The goal of this study is to investigate S[dotbelow]adra's metaphysical principles of the Return that have been either partially presented or misunderstood in most of the existing secondary literature. The philosophical arguments through which S[dotbelow]adra was able to explain…
This work is about psychotherapy with a terminally ill patient but it is intended for a far broader readership than this indicates. Joy Schaverien raises questions regarding the meaning of love and endings in psychotherapy.
This book is about psychotherapy with a terminally ill patient but it is intended for a far broader readership than this indicates. In an intensely moving narrative Joy Schaverien raises questions regarding the meaning of love and death in psychotherapy. The multiple layers of a…
This work is about psychotherapy with a terminally ill patient but it is intended for a far broader readership than this indicates. Joy Schaverien raises questions regarding the meaning of love and endings in psychotherapy.
"The concept of the universal has challenged philosophy throughout its history. In The Intimate Universal, William Desmond cuts through its myriad definitions to arrive at a plurivocal alternative that better captures what it means to be human. He identifies religion, art, philo…
The ecological unconscious was articulated as primary to ecopsychology originally by Theodore Roszak; yet understanding how its contents and psychodynamics inform human approaches of relating to habitat has not been a central concern within the field. Confronting this complexity…
This hermeneutic study traces the developmental theory that emerges from Erich Neumann’s writings. The research revisions reevaluates and consolidates the emerging theory, in the hope of reviving interest in Neumann’s writings, and to indicate his importance as a Jungian theoret…