Explorations into the Self [Hardcover]

This rewarding work is the product of sustained observation of and reflection on phenomena arising out of three broad topics in the field of analytical psychology. Firstly it analyses and evaluates the ambiguity in Jung's definitions and metaphors about the self, while at the same time expounding the theory of the self as a dynamic system, evolving through deintegration and reintegration processes during early infancy and childhood. Secondly it investigates the relation of the ego to the self, giving notable consideration to psychoanalytic work. Finally the presence of the self, behind or within both the religious and the alchemical experience, is explored. Fordham's innovative and original view of the self further extends our understanding of its dynamics and helps to establish some sense of the complementariness as well as differences between Jung and Klein.Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Empirical foundation, hypoth and theories , The self in Jungs works , Individuation and ego development , Integrationdeintegration in infancy , A possible root of active imagination , Ego and self , The self as an imaginative construct , The ego and the self , Mental health , A clinical study , An interpretation of Jungs thesis about synchronicity , Countertransference , Defences of the self , Jungian views of bodymind , Religion, mysticism, alchemy , Is God supernatural? , Notes on the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross , Alchemy , Concluding reflectionsThis rewarding work is the product of sustained observation of and reflection on phenomena arising out of three broad topics in the field of analytical psychology. Firstly it analyses and evaluates the ambiguity in Jung's definitions and metaphors about the self, while at the same time expounding the theory of the self as a dynamic system.US? 1985 Taylor & Francis