Format:
1 online resource (192 pages)
ISBN:
9781400821914
Series Statement:
Bollingen Series (General) Ser v.1
Content:
"Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model of something that was almost completely lacking in Western psychology--an account of the development phases of higher consciousness.... Jung's insistence on the psychogenic and symbolic significance of such states is even more timely now than then. As R. D. Laing stated... 'It was Jung who broke the ground here, but few followed him.'"--From the introduction by Sonu Shamdasani Jung's seminar on Kundalini yoga, presented to the Psychological Club in Zurich in 1932, has been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought and of the symbolic transformations of inner experience. Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model for the developmental phases of higher consciousness, and he interpreted its symbols in terms of the process of individuation. With sensitivity toward a new generation's interest in alternative religions and psychological exploration, Sonu Shamdasani has brought together the lectures and discussions from this seminar. In this volume, he re-creates for today's reader the fascination with which many intellectuals of prewar Europe regarded Eastern spirituality as they discovered more and more of its resources, from yoga to tantric texts. Reconstructing this seminar through new documentation, Shamdasani explains, in his introduction, why Jung thought that the comprehension of Eastern thought was essential if Western psychology was to develop. He goes on to orient today's audience toward an appreciation of some of the questions that stirred the minds of Jung and his seminar group: What is the relation between Eastern schools of liberation and Western psychotherapy? What connection is there between esoteric religious traditions and spontaneous individual experience? What light do the symbols of Kundalini yoga shed on conditions diagnosed as psychotic? Not
Content:
Cover -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- MEMBERS OF THE SEMINAR -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: JUNG'S JOURNEY TO THE EAST -- Lecture 1: 12 October 1932 -- Lecture 2: 19 October 1932 -- Lecture 3: 26 October 1932 -- Lecture 4: 2 November 1932 -- Appendix 1: Indian Parallels, 11 October 1930 -- Appendix 2: Jung's Comments in Hauer's German Lectures, 5-8 October 1932 -- Appendix 3: Hauer's English Lecture, 8 October 1932 -- Appendix 4: Sat-cakra-nirūpana -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
9780691006765
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780691006765
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=832658
