The Symbolic Quest: Basic Concepts of Analytical Psychology - Expanded Edition

Edward C. Whitmont

Published by Princeton University Press 1979

The Symbolic Quest

Basic Concepts of Analytical Psychology - Expanded Edition

Edward C. Whitmont

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691213187

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This book explores the use and development of man's symbolizing capacities-those qualities that make him distinctly human. Dr. Whitmont describes the symbolic approach to a dream, which takes into account a symptom's meaning in reference to an unfolding wholeness of personality. He then presents the view that the instinctual urge for meaning is served by the symbolizing capacities, and that this urge has been repressed in our time.

In the field of psychology, this symbolic approach is most fully exemplified by the theories of C. G. Jung. The author's contribution includes many differentiations and speculations, especially concerning the problems of relatedness.

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"Whitmont...enriches the meaning of the myth of the self by taking us beyond the language of 'disease' and 'symptom' into another language world, the world of 'dis-ease' and 'symbol' and 'therapeia'."

"[Whitmont] has succeeded in what can only be called an act of creative translation. . . . The general reader will get what has not been available before, a clear and lucid statement of the Jungian position, that life has a pattern of wholeness which can only be comprehended symbolically at this moment in time."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface to the 1991 Edition Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. The Symbolic Approach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. The Approach to the Unconscious Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3. The Objective Psyche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
4. The Complex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5. Archetypes and Myths Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
6. Archetypes and the Individual Myth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
7. Archetypes and Personal Psychology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
8. Psychological Types Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
9. The Persona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
10. The Shadow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
11. Male and Female Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
12. The Anima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
13. The Animus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
14. The Self Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
15. The Complex of Identity: The Ego Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
16. The Ego-Self Estrangement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
17. Ego Development and the Phases of Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
18. Therapy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
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Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Copyright year: 1979
Audience: Professional and scholarly;College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Keywords: aggression; affect(s); analysis; biology; case histories; change; correspondence; death; discipline; ego; emotion(s); family; fascination; growth; hero; ideals; illness; impasse(s); judgment(s); libido; life; love; meaninglessness; morality; nature; Odin; orality; parents; psychopathology; relatedness; salvation; soul; symbolism; transformation; unconscious; value systems; will; woman; Yin

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Published: May 5, 2020
ISBN: 9780691213187