ABSTRACT

This book encompasses a wide range of author's diverse explorations and provides readers with rich food for thought—whether their interest is in clinical or cultural issues of the psyche. It re-examines the idea of the self, and explores the distinction between symbols and symbolic experience.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Prologue

chapter One|13 pages

Jung: rebel son or prophet?

chapter Two|12 pages

Conflict: combat or dance of the soul?

chapter Three|14 pages

The role of self-awareness in a changing culture

chapter Four|14 pages

Moral values and analytic insights

part One|2 pages

Bridges: Intrapsychic Structures and functions

chapter Five|16 pages

Penis as bridge

chapter Six|19 pages

Gods and deintegrates

chapter Seven|24 pages

Archetypes on the couch

chapter Eight|14 pages

The location of archetypal experience

chapter Nine|19 pages

Big self, little self, and individuation

chapter Ten|28 pages

The drive towards death: a vector of the self

chapter Eleven|28 pages

Symbols: content and process

part Two|2 pages

Bridges Broken: Clinical Experience and Practice

chapter Twelve|22 pages

Projective identification

chapter Thirteen|10 pages

Transference as fulcrum of analysis

chapter Fourteen|12 pages

Countertransference: the twinning of Eros and Agape

chapter Fifteen|28 pages

Narcissism and the self: who am I that I love?

chapter Sixteen|15 pages

Masochism: the shadow of veneration and worship

chapter Seventeen|28 pages

Paedophilia: normal and abnormal

chapter Eighteen|28 pages

Curing and healing

part Three|2 pages

Bridges Built: Creativity and the Arts

chapter Nineteen|11 pages

Birth and creativity

chapter Twenty|13 pages

Creativity and therapy

chapter Twenty-One|15 pages

Creativity and archetype

chapter Twenty-Two|9 pages

The drive towards death: a vector of the self

chapter Twenty-Three|21 pages

Look! He has come through!

D. H. Lawrence’s conflicts as pathfinders towards individuation

chapter Twenty-Four|18 pages

Jung’s concept of synchronicity

chapter Twenty-Five|6 pages

Creativity in the second half of life