3 papers in the library · publishing 2018
Routledge eBooks March 22, 2018 Alan Mulhern
Jung&s;s method of contacting the unconscious and working with it can be understood partially as a creative reaction to the Freudian methods which he adopted in his early practice. In the spirit of Jung&s;s creative methods for contacting the contents of the unconscious, but also in line with the use of meditational-type practices within psychotherapy, this chapter illustrates a method that can...
Routledge eBooks March 21, 2018 Alan Mulhern
The eventual emergence of human consciousness has been its spectacular and problematic result. The immediate precursors of human consciousness lie in animal and hominid past which deeply influence human psychology, while its full development demonstrates extraordinary features of self-awareness, aesthetics, and even transcendental hunger. As the primate brain expanded, eventually reaching the...
Routledge eBooks March 21, 2018 Alan Mulhern
Mankind&s;s fallen state is a result of the emergence of ego consciousness for which the word "fallen" is only partially accurate. His emergence in Africa around 200,000 years ago was just the beginning of a series of steps in which ego consciousness became more extensive and better established in the psyche and freed him from a state of unawareness. The separated ego suffers from limitation,...