Introduction

Liminal subjects tend to spread promiscuously through the interfaces between disparate spheres of study such as religion, psychology, and magic, which are themselves notoriously resistant to any universally agreed definition. It is the enigmatic borderlands of human exploration that the historian Otto Neugebauer once called 'wretched subjects'. C. G. Jung spent a great deal of time in the liminal interfaces between psychology and religion, psychology and magic, magic and mysticism, and mysticism and medicine. Jung's reputation in the world of clinical psychology has always been ambiguous. Despite Jung's ambiguous place within the world of clinical psychology, his influence has been pervasive in the various currents of transpersonal psychology. The tendency within contemporary esoteric circles to validate occult philosophies through Jung’s psychological models has been referred to as 'Jungianism'. A figure as influential as Jung in the fields of psychology, literature, philosophy, theology, history, and contemporary spiritualities will inevitably be the subject of many biographies and analyses.