The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
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- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : January 2006
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Jung and Analytical Psychology - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 23696
- ISBN 13 : 9781583917848
- ISBN 10 : 1583917845
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Questions of soul and spirit are increasingly being raised in connection with the scientific exploration of the psyche, and especially in the context of psychotherapy. The contributors to this volume are interested in exploring the numinous in the human psyche, in clinical work, world events, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and the humanities. They originate from multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural backgrounds, bringing a variety of approaches to subjects including: Witchcraft: the numinous power of humans; Jung and Derrida: the numinous, deconstruction and myth; Accessing the numinous: Apolline and Dionysian pathways; The role of the numinous in the reception of Jung. "The Idea of the Numinous" will fascinate all analytical psychologists, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists interested in investigating the overlap between therapeutic and religious interests.
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The idea of the numinous is often raised in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic contexts, but it is rarely itself subjected to close scrutiny. This volume examines how the numinous has gained currency in the post-modern world, demonstrating how the numinous is no longer confined to religious discourses but is included in humanist, secular and scientific views of the world.
Contributors:
Jorge L. Ahumada, Paul Bishop, Ann Casement, Lionel Corbett, John Dourley, Giorgio Giaccardi, James Grotstein, Lucy Huskinson, Toshio Kawai, Mark Kuras, Roderick Main, Susan Rowland, Sonu Shamdasani, Murray Stein, David Tacey
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.
About the Author(s)
Ann Casement, LP, is an honorary professor at the Oriental Academy for Analytical Psychology; senior member of the British Jungian Analytic Association; associate member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (New York); New York State licensed psychoanalyst; member of the British Psychoanalytic Council; member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (New York); member of the British Psychological Society; founder member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Association; and patron of the Freud Museum in London. She worked for several years in psychiatry from the late 1970s; chaired the UK Council for Psychotherapy (1997–2001); served on the Executive Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (2001–2007), and the IAAP Ethics Committee (2007–2016), becoming its chair in 2010. For two years from 1999 she conducted research working with Lord Alderdice and other stakeholders in the profession on a Private Member’s Bill in the House of Lords on the statutory regulation of the psychotherapy/psychoanalytic profession. She has been teaching and lecturing in China, starting in 2015 at the initial invitation of Professor Heyong Shen.
She has lectured and taught in many countries around the world, including the UK, China, Japan, Russia, USA, Canada, Israel, Lithuania, Switzerland, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, and in several countries in Europe. She contributes to The Economist, and to psychoanalytic journals worldwide, being on the editorial board of some. She served on the Gradiva Awards Committee (New York) in 2013; gave the Fay Lecture in Texas in 2019; is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute; a fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine; and was a member of the Council of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She has produced many articles, reviews, and several chapters for books. Her published and forthcoming books are: Post-Jungians Today (Routledge, 1998), Carl Gustav Jung (Sage, 2001), Who Owns Psychoanalysis? (Karnac, 2004) nominated for the 2005 Gradiva Award, The Idea of the Numinous (Routledge, 2006) with David Tacey, Who Owns Jung? (Karnac, 2007), Thresholds and Pathways Between Jung and Lacan (Routledge, 2021) and Integrating Shadow: Authentic Being in the World (in press, Texas A&M.)
David Tacey is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry at La Trobe University, Australia.
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