Platonic Jung

Paperbound; 259 pp. including a glossary, references, and an index. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: From experience to application Background Experiences The fourth way Application in practice Jung's psychology Chapter 2: The cosmology Some considerations on the Platonic one The self and the one The divine center Parts of the whole The Form and the archetype The form The archetype The image The ego and the sensible man A world of flux based on the opposites Jung's ego complexes Plato's sensible world Chapter 3: Plato's Soul The structure of the soul The Immortality of the soul Soul in the "third" The dual-unity of soul in the third Soul's development through philosophy Acquiring virtue Battling vice Plato's cave allegory Moral being World soul and the subtle luciform body Chapter 4: Jung's Soul Soul's immortality The structure of the soul Soul as functional complex Soul's progression Soul in the "third" The discrimination of opposites The union of opposites The dual-unity of soul in the third Individuation and the transcendent function Transformation in the transcendent function Psychoid matter The nature of psychoid Energetic realms The subtle body Zarathustra The union of physical and spiritual The Platonic philosophical life and Jungian individuation Chapter 5: Some considerations for psychotherapy based on the dual-unity of soul in the third The dual-unity of soul in the third The ontological frame The nature of being Transformation The vertical axis In relation to the horizontal axis Healing wounds The unconscious and conscious mind The law of three Third force Thought The bipartite centers A few words about soul in childhood Epilogue Glossary References Index About the author