The fires of desire

Subtitle:
Erotic energies of the spiritual quest

Authors:
Agosin, R. Tomás (Roberto Tomás) ca. 1948-1991
Cousins, Ewert 1927-2009
Engelsman, Joan Chamberlain 1932-
Halligan, Fredrica R.
Kalsched, Donald 1943-
McDargh, John
Moore, Robert L. (Robert Louis) 1942-2016
Shea, John J. 1940-
Stein, Murray 1943-
Ulanov, Ann Belford 1938-

Editors:
Halligan, Fredrica R.
Shea, John J. 1940-

Place of Publication:
New York, New York

Publisher:
The Crossroad Publishing Company


ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
0824511700

Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)

Media Sub-type:
Book

LoC Call Number:
BL 625.55 .F57 1992

Accession Number:
062918

Keyword Subject Headings:
Spiritual life
Desire--religious aspects
Sex--religious aspects
Psychology--religious
Analysis and religion

User Notes:
Hardback, 208 pages including illustrations. Individual essays contain footnotes. Contents: Introduction: Beginning the quest: Whither the divine fire? / Fredrica R. Halligan and John J. Shea 1. From Freud to Jung and beyond: Turning points in psychoanalytic and religious thought / Murray Stein 2. Psychosis, dreams, and mysticism in the clinical domain / Tomás Agosin 3. The limits of desire and the desire for limits in psychoanalytic theory / Donald E. Kalsched 4. Women at mid-life: The queen's quest / Joan Chamberlain Engelsman 5. Decoding the diamond body: The structure of the deep masculine and the forms of libido / Robert L. Moore 6. States of consciousness: Charting the mystical path / Ewert Cousins 7. The holding self: Jung and the desire for being / Ann Belford Ulanov 8. Keeping faith with the future: Toward final conscious unity / Fredrica R. Halligan Epilogue: Emergent issues in psychospiritual discourse / John McDargh, John J. Shea, Fredrica R. Halligan In Memoriam [Tomás Agosin]