The Religious Function of the PsycheThe Religious Function of the Psyche offers an examination of divinity that focuses on its unique, personal manifestations within the psyche, the body, relationships and the world at large. Using the language and interpretive methods of depth psychology, particularly those of C. G. Jung and psychoanalytic self psychology, the author, Lionel Corbett, offers an introduction to Jung and religion and a bridge between the transpersonal and the personal levels of the psyche. Lionel Corbett suggests a psychological model for the relationship between the divine and the human, and offers an alternative approach to spirituality than that found in traditional religious systems. Problems of evil, suffering, and the notion of human development as an incarnation of spirit, are dealt with in this book by a religious approach to the psyche that can be applied in both everyday life and within the practice of psychotherapy. |
Contents
A psychological approach to | 39 |
THE ARCHETYPE AS SYNTHETIC PRINCIPLE | 57 |
MYTHICAL SYMBOLIC AND IMAGINAL ASPECTS OF | 84 |
A PSYCHOLOGICAL VIEW OF SOME TRADITIONAL | 105 |
A DEPTH PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM | 126 |
SUFFERING | 152 |
SIN AND EVIL | 185 |
PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICE | 204 |
THE RATIONALE FOR A CONTEMPLATIVE PSYCHOLOGY | 220 |
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