Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book

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Then I read these conversations between Shamdasani and Hillman, and it reflected back to me the appropriateness of my own insights. It was associated with him but he was standing on the tradition of the dead to utter a phrase first recorded in the medieval period.

They discuss the lament inherent in Jung, and express what it means to communicate, to open oneself to attend to the dead. explanation of the ethical and cosmological future for psychology that his book posits I will give you a tangible example about how its message was liberatory for me. The idea of psychology, especially Hungian psychology, as either a science or as an ensoulung of arid overspiritualized religions drowns in the depths and tides of Jung’s personified, poetic, haunting, lyrical imaginings — ‘blood for the ghosts’ of the sacred Dead.His hope was that it could help psychology understand the functions of the human need for religion, mythology and the transcendental. The dialogues’ deep-sounding yet unproductive theme is that these figures represent “the dead [who] are animating us”—figuratively, the collective human memory that shapes our psyches. On the other hand, I've been reading Hillman since the 70s, and Hillman (the first director of the Jung Institute in Zurich) has made a fascinating career out of re-visioning Jung while founding the field of archetypal psychology. With Jung’s Red Book as their point of departure, two leading scholars explore issues relevant to our thinking today.

We discuss the ideas and life of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (pronounced YOONG), and all things Jungian. Eisler’s method is significantly interrelational and systemic, it supersedes traditional binary oppositions and offers an interesting correlation with alchemy. We need the coldness of death to see clearly", interestingly Hillman died during the production of this book. Undoubtedly those colors were chosen to be symbolic of its connection with the The Red Book and shows the attention this little volume has received by its publisher.While there is a pain in Hillman’s words there is also a peace that was rare to hear from such a flamboyant and unsettled psychologist. The container must remain flexible if we are to grow into our humanity as a society and an aware people.

The conversations in Lament of the Dead come from the very last years of his life – and he's as lively as ever. The author then explores the nuances of our two-system minds, showing how they perform in various situations.Lament is relevant because none of those realizations is somewhere that I ever would have gotten without the tradition that I am standing on top of. From Abraxas to the Red One, the Sacrificed Girl, Siegfried, Philemon, the Worm and the Blue Shade (Christ), an x ray of the culmination of everything from the pre Socratics, Wotan, Roman religions, Christianity and the nihilism of the modern age. Soul is imagination, a cavernous treasury…Whereas spirit chooses the better part and seeks to make all one. To be fair, Jung was developing his own personal cosmology while grappling with the notion that myths are universal.

He viewed artists that descended into the abstract with no path back or acknowledgement of the history that gave them that path as failures.Similarly to Jungian psychology the container is not meant to be literalized or turned into a prison. Our mindful life is the product of the unlived life of the dead it is our life that is their lament. Alchemical Rubedo, biocultural partnership transformation, psychoanalysis, art, powa-ha, are one and the same -they push the mundane world towards the instant of transcendence, to the sublimation and distillation of our human and cosmic story, of our eternal quest to reach and ex-press the "Atmavictu" (Mellick, 2018, p. The author suggests that our emergence as a species with stereoscopic, frontal vision and sophisticated hand-eye coordination gave us an advantage over earlier humans and primates because it allowed us to contemplate a situation and ponder alternatives for action. G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology, which won the Gradiva Prize of the World Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in 1999 for the best historical and biographical work.