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Author Brodersen, Elizabeth

Title Jungian Perspectives on Rebirth and Renewal : Phoenix rising
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (301 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction: Phoenix Rising: Jungian Perspectives on Rebirth and Renewal; Phoenix Image as Symbol; The Importance of Location as Psyche and Symbol; Rebirth and Renewal of the Ascendant Matrilineal Function; The Importance to Jung of Archaic, Imaginative, Associative, Indirect Thinking; An Overemphasis on German Aestheticism by Stressing Other Ethnologies; Jung's Interest in the "Fourth" Psychological Function; References; Part I The Phoenix as Symbol
1 Phoenix Rising: A Comparative Study of the Phoenix Symbol as a Goal of Alchemical Work and the Individuation Process Introduction; C.G. Jung and the Phoenix Symbol; Count Michael Maier; The Grand Peregrination; Ascent and Descent; Secrets of the Phoenix and the Self; Conclusion; Postscript; References; Part II Native America; 2 Borderland Consciousness: Re-establishing Dialogue between the Western Psyche and the Psyche-Left-Behind; Introduction; The Psyche-Left-Behind; Borderland Consciousness; Structure of Language and its Relationship to Psychic Structure; Global Warming Crisis
Responses of Dr. Jeanne Lacourt and Frank MorganThe Nature of Polemic; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Birthing Symbolic Life; Author's Note; Introduction; We are the Forest; Transformation; Differentiation; Direct Relationship; Clinical Example -- Beaver Woman; Conclusion; Note; References; Website Addresses; Part III Synchronistic Symbols as Liminal Place/Space; 4 The Burden of Modernity: Three Takes on the Snake and Recombinant Visionary Mythology; Introduction; Part One: The Snake and the Transformation of Energy; Dream One: Eagle and Horse
Dream Two: Depths of the OceanPart Two: The Snake and Healing; Part Three: The Snake That is Not a Symbol; the Snake That is not a Cigar; Conclusion; Author's Note; References; 5 Rebirthing Biblical Myth: The Poisonwood Bible as Visionary Art; Introduction; Rebirthed Mythical Imagery; A Renewed Approach to Biblical Text; A Rebirthing of the Bible's Creation Myth; The Bible's Deliverance Myth Spoken Anew; In Closing, an Opening; References; Part IV India; 6 Life Threads: C.G. Jung's 1938 and 1944 'Orissa' Awakenings; Introduction; Weaving an Indian Journey
Setting up a Loom to Weave a Cradle StoryLate in Life Journeys to India: 2013; World Wars and Dream Threads; Embroidered Fingerprints; Village Artisans: Living Through Creation; Jodhpur: Marriage Preparations and Mehrangah Museum; Yoni-Lingam Wholeness: Jung's Genius Seen Afresh; Confrontation with Orissa: 2014; Puri Temple and Puri Potters; Weaving Orissa: A Living Myth; Love Through Aesthetic Experience; The Temple of Konark; Puri and Cremation; Bhubaneswar: Mercurial Threads; Personal Placental Threads; Conclusion: Interwoven Threads; Notes; References
Notes 7 Paramapada Sopanam: The Divine Game of Rebirth and Renewal
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Author Glock, Michael
ISBN 9781317274384
1317274385