Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book

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Undoubtedly those colors were chosen to be symbolic of its connection with the The Red Book and shows the attention this little volume has received by its publisher. Lament of the Dead is a bit of codex to it, through the conversations of two Jung scholar's we get some nice glimmerings and gleanings that went over my head. We need the coldness of death to see clearly", interestingly Hillman died during the production of this book. He realized after his falling out from Freud that his own religious tradition and the available psychological framework was not enough to help him contain the raw and wuthering forces of his own unconscious that were assailing him at the time. Not only is he also one of the foremost living experts on Jung, but as a scholar he does not threaten the famously egotistical Hillman as a competing interpreting psychologist.

He has case studies encouraging patients to resume Christian or Muslim religious practices as a source of healing and integration.

His descent into the underworld, in which there’s an attempt to find the way of relating to the dead. Many of the obvious elements for a discussion of the enormous Red Book are completely ignored in the dialogue. Much like a socratic dialogue or a film script the the authors act more as characters and archetypes than essayists. The philosophical dialectic turns the conversation into an extended metaphor that indirectly supports the themes of the text.

No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. It is a lens and a buffer to protect us until we are ready and allow us to see ourselves more clearly once we are. explanation of the ethical and cosmological future for psychology that his book posits I will give you a tangible example about how its message was liberatory for me.Soul is imagination, a cavernous treasury…Whereas spirit chooses the better part and seeks to make all one.

Power in business, politics and the world of work, to most people, implies competition, domination, control and reward.This was a major sticking point for other reviewers, but I think their point works better undefined.