Thresholds of initiation

Edition:
Wesleyan Paperback, 1979

Author:
Henderson, Joseph L. (Joseph Lewis) 1903-2007

Place of Publication:
Middletown, Connecticut

Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press


Publication Date:
1979

ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
0819560618

Source:
From the library of Selma and Milton Hyman

Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)

Media Sub-type:
Book

Copy:
2

LoC Call Number:
BL 615 .H46 1967 c.2

Accession Number:
061102

Keyword Subject Headings:
Initiation--Psychological aspects
Initiation rites--Mythological aspects
Ego development--Pscyhological aspects
Adolescence--Developmental aspects--Psychology
Individuation (Jungian psychology)
Psychoanalysis--Case studies
Bear--Mythological aspects

User Notes:
Paperbound; 260 pp., including an appendix, a bibliography of major sources, bibliographic references in end notes, and an index. Contents: Acknowledgements Foreword Chapter I. The rediscovery of initiation Chapter II. The uninitiated Chapter III. Return to the mother Chapter IV. Remaking a man Chapter V. The trial of strength Chapter VI. The rite of vision Chapter VII. Thresholds of initiation Chapter VIII. Initiation and the psychology of ego-development in adolescence Chapter IX. Initiation in the process of Individuation Appendix: The bear as archetypal image Bibliography of major sources References Index