Ego & archetype : individuation and the religious function of the psyche / Edward F. Edinger.
By: Edinger, Edward F
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BookPublisher: Boston ; London : Shambhala, 1992Description: xiii, 304 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 087773576X.Other title: Ego and archetype.Subject(s): Individuation (Psychology) | Ego (Psychology) | Archetype (Psychology) | Psychoanalysis and religion | Psychology, ReligiousDDC classification: 150.1954 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 150.1954 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 05/03/2024 | 00160671 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book is about the individual's journey to psychological wholeness, known in analytical psychology as the process of individuation. Edward Edinger traces the stages in this process and relates them to the search for meaning through encounters with symbolism in religion, myth, dreams, and art. For contemporary men and women, Edinger believes, the encounter with the self is equivalent to the discovery of God. The result of the dialogue between the ego and the archetypal image of God is an experience that dramatically changes the individual's worldview and makes possible a new and more meaningful way of life.
Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1972.
Includes index.
Part I / Individuation and stages of development -- The inflated ego -- The alienated ego -- Encounter with the self -- Part II / Individuation as a way of life -- The search for meaning -- Christ as paradigm of the individuated ego -- Being an individual -- The Trinity archetype and the dialectic of development -- Part III / Symbols of the goal -- Metaphysics and the unconscious -- The blood of Christ -- The philosophers' stone.