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Author Edinger, Edward F.

Title Ego and archetype : individuation and the religious function of the psyche / by Edward F. Edinger
Published New York : Published by Putnam for the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, [1972]

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 MELB  150.1954 EDI-E  AVAILABLE
 W'PONDS  150.1954 JUN.E  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 304 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 24 cm
Contents I. Individuation and the stages of development : The inflated ego : Ego and self ; Inflation and original wholeness ; Adam and Prometheus ; Hybris and Nemesis -- The alienated ego : The ego-self axis and the psychic life cycle ; Despair and violence ; Alienation and the religious experience ; Restitution of the ego-self axis -- Encounter with self : The role of the collective ; The breakthrough ; The book of Job ; The individuated ego
II. Individuation as a way of life : The search for meaning : The function of the symbol ; The concretistic and reductive fallacies ; The symbolic life -- Christ as paradigm of the individuated ego : The acceptance of separateness ; The ethical teaching ; The self-oriented ego ; Man as the image of God -- Being an individual : The A Priori existence of the ego ; The monad and the monogenes ; Unity and multiplicity -- The trinity archetype and the dialectic of development : The three and the four ; Transformation and development -- III. Symbols of the goal : Metaphysics and the unconscious ; Empirical metaphysics ; A series of metaphysical dreams ; Return to the beginning ; The transcendent dimension ; Completion of the opus -- The blood of Christ : Introduction ; The meaning of blood ; Christ and Dionysus ; Extraction by sacrifice ; Attributes of the blood of Christ ; Relations to alchemy ; Modern dreams -- The philosopher's stone : Introduction and text ; Transformation and revelation ; The fertility principle ; The union of opposites ; Ubiquity ; Spiritual food and the tree of life ; The one in the all
Notes Includes bibliographical references
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.
Archetype (Psychology)
Ego (Psychology)
Psychoanalysis and religion.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychology, Religious.
Ego.
Personality Development.
Religion and Psychology.
Author C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology.
LC no. 75188717