On Behalf of the Mystical Fool · Jung on the Religious Situation by Dourley, John P. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Jungian psychology and spirituality

What is spirituality and why now? Jung’s naturalism and psychic containment The now emerging myth Fundamentalism from a Jungian perspective The personal and collective implications of Jung’s myth and spirituality Jung’s move to a quaternitarian future How the mystics did it

Chapter 2 The numinous, the universal, and a myth of supersession

Preamble The inevitability of the numinous The numinous as threat to the species New configurations of the numinous in a now emerging myth

Chapter 3 Taking back divinity

Jung and the termination of the imagination of the supernatural Revisioning incarnation The psychodynamic of incarnation revisioned The mystical background Meister Eckhart and the relativity of God Jacob Boehme and history as God’s completion Conclusion: Jung and post-modern mysticism

Chapter 4 Martin Buber and the lunatic asylum Chapter 5 Jung, White and the end of the pilgrimage Chapter 6 The mystical fool and why the killing must go on

The paradox Jung’s appropriation of Levy-Bruhl Jung and the representations collectives Jung and the “isms” The collective shadow The truth shall set you free; the doubt freer Jung’s myth as an ultimate resource

Chapter 7 C.G.Jung, S.P.Huntington and the search for civilization

Chapter 8 Jung and the recall of the Gods

Jung on religion: the coincidence of theory and therapy Capping the volcano Personal analysis and the emerging myth Conclusion: recovering our health from our heresy

Chapter 9 Rerooting in the mother

The numinous The religious and secular perversion of the numinous The precedence of the Goddess Incest is best In the end it all comes to nothing

Chapter 10 Jung, some mystics and the void

Recapitulation and foreword The apophatic Jung on mysticism The mystics themselves

Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210–c.1285) Hadewijch and Marguerite Porete Meister Eckhart (c.1260–c.1328) Jacob Boehme (1575–1624)

Summary and conclusions

Mysticism and the psychodynamics of compassion An all-inclusive psychic containment Social/religious/political relativity Consequences for religion and Jungian psychology

Afterword: clinical relevance

References Index