ABSTRACT
Hayao Kawai, the first Japanese Jungian analyst, whose death in 2007 is a great loss to us, said in his book, ‘I can say that I became a psychotherapist and especially belong to the Jungian school because of my own fear of death. .. . As a Jungian analyst, I learned that people more often deal with death in Jungian circles than in other schools’ (2006: 27). Also, Rosemary Gordon, a Jungian analyst in the UK, has said, ‘Jung was in fact very interested in man’s relationship to death and in the symbols that the psyche evolves around this theme’ (1978: 29). Certainly they are right, Jungian psychology more directly deals not only with death, but also with spirituality and religion than other schools. Of course, many of Jung’s works deal with these matters (Jung: 1938, 1953) and his followers are actively involved in developing his groundbreaking insights in various ways (Hillman 1964, Gordon 1978, von Franz 1986, Rosen 2002).
