ABSTRACT
It is well known that Jung’s investigation of Eastern religions and cultures supplied him with an abundance of cross-cultural comparative material, useful to support his hypotheses of the existence of archetypes, the collective unconscious and other manifestations of psychic reality. However, the specific literature dealing with this aspect has previously been quite scarce. This unique edited collection brings together contributors writing on a range of topics that represent an introduction to the differences between Eastern and Western approaches to Jungian psychology.
Readers will discover that one interesting feature of this book is the realization of how much Western Jungians are implicitly or explicitly inspired by Eastern traditions – including Japanese – and, at the same time, how Jungian psychology – the product of a Western author – has been widely accepted and developed by Japanese scholars and clinicians.
Scholars and students of Jungian studies will find many new ideas, theories and practices gravitating around Jungian psychology, generated by the encounter between East and West. Another feature that will be appealing to many readers is that this book may represent an introduction to Japanese philosophy and clinical techniques related to Jungian psychology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|37 pages
East and West
chapter 1|11 pages
How can we survive in this Globalized Age?
part 2|44 pages
Images
chapter 6|11 pages
Encountering the other world in Japanese Manga
chapter 7|9 pages
Ancient Chinese Hieroglyph
part 3|44 pages
Clinical issues
chapter 9|12 pages
Intimate relationships between women and men
chapter 11|9 pages
Ensou and tree view therapy
chapter 12|12 pages
Drawings without a tree in response to the Baum test by a patient with refractory chronic schizophrenia
part 4|54 pages
Identity and individuation