Depth Psychology and Mysticism (Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism) 9783319790954, 9783319790961, 3319790951

Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
Contents
Editors and Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Introduction: Depth Psychology and Mystical Phenomena—The Challenge of the Numinous
References
Part I Methodological, Hermeneutic, & Inter-disciplinary Perspectives
Chapter 2 Rescuing Alexandria: Depth Psychology and the Return of Tropological Exegesis
Patristic Sources
Chapter 3 Dionysus in Depth: Mystes, Madness, and Method in James Hillman’s Re-visioning of Psychology
Introduction
Mystes: Dionysian Consciousness in The Myth of Analysis
“On Psychological Femininity”
Madness: Dionysus in Jung’s Writings
Method: Dream, Drama, Dionysus
Conclusion: Mystes as Means and as Method
References
Chapter 4 The Royal Road Meets the Data Highway
Introduction
Dreaming as a Source of Mystical Experience
Current Scientific Research on Sleep and Dreaming
A Depth Psychological Approach to Mystical Dreams
New Horizons in Mystical Dreaming
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5 Spirituality and the Challenge of Clinical Pluralism: Participatory Thinking in Psychotherapeutic Context
Psychoanalysis as a Foundation
Psychoanalysis Without Foundation
Participatory Theory and Reconciliation with Jung
Future Lines of Inquiry
References
Chapter 6 Descriptive Disenchantment and Prescriptive Disillusionment: Myths, Mysticism, and Psychotherapeutic Interpretation
What Is Mysticism?
Myths, Mysticism, and “Mysticism”
The Doctor Knows Best
Conclusion
References
Part II Historical & Theoretical Approaches
Chapter 7 Embodying Nonduality: Depth Psychology in American Mysticism
Judith Blackstone and the Realization Process
Hameed Ali and Karen Johnson’s Diamond Approach
Nondual Mysticism and Depth Psychology: Sociocultural Context
From Embedded to Experiential to Embodiment: Historical Trajectories
From the Personal Body to the Social Body: Future Directions
References
Chapter 8 Mysticism in Translation: Psychological Advances, Cautionary Tales
Framing Mysticism and Spirituality
Framing the “Psychology and Religion” Movement
Advances and Cautionary Tales
Experience and Process: Psychology of Approaches
Culture and History: The Case of Psychospirituality
Translation Reframed: Dialogical, Constructivist, Transformational
References
Chapter 9 Sigmund Freud and Jewish Mysticism: An Exploration
Mysticism, Narcissism, and the Death Drive
Mysticism and the Mother Goddesses
Mysticism and the Father God
Jewish Mysticism
Mysticism and Eros
Eros and Death: Twin Brothers
References
Chapter 10 Jung and Mysticism
Was Jung a Mystic?
What Is Mystical Experience?
Jung and Christian Mysticism
The Potentially Heretical Nature of Jung’s Approach
Stages of Mysticism
What Kind of Mysticism Is Found in Jung?
Is Jung’s Approach Compatible with Theism?
The Ontological Question
So…Was Jung a Mystic?
References
Chapter 11 Mystic Descent: James Hillman and the Religious Imagination
Spirit and Soul
Mundus Imaginalis and Deus Absconditus
Anima Mundi and Non-dualism
A Note on Postmodernism and Myth
References
Part III Self and No-Self, Knowing and Unknowing in Depth Psychology & Mysticism
Chapter 12 Apophasis and Psychoanalysis
Coincidence of Opposites
Deleuze
Derrida
Conclusion
References
Chapter 13 Divine Darkness and Divine Light: Alchemical Illumination and the Mystical Play Between Knowing and Unknowing
References
Chapter 14 Nothing Almost Sees Miracles! Self and No-Self in Depth Psychology and Mystical Theology
Introduction
The No-Self of Religion
The Self of Psychology
Deep Calls Out to Deep
References
Chapter 15 “In Killing You Changed Death to Life”: Transformation of the Self in St. John of the Cross and Carl Jung
St. John of the Cross
C. G. Jung
Catholic Mysticism and Depth Psychology
References
Chapter 16 The Buddhist Unconscious (Alaya-vijnana) and Jung’s Collective Unconscious: What Does It Mean to Be Liberated from the Self?
Jung’s Collective Unconscious and the Freedom from Opposites
Abhidharma and Buddhist Teachings of Karma
Buddhist Unconscious: Alaya-vijnana
Alaya-vijnana and Jung’s Collective Unconscious
Liberation from the Archetype of Self: What Does It Mean?
References
Index