ISSN 0033-2925
5 papers in the library · 11 citations · publishing 1988-2026
Psychological Perspectives April 3, 2026 J. Hatem
This article introduces Chapters 1 and 2 of La Transmutation: Jung et l’Islam, in which Jad Hatem offers a close hermeneutic reading of Qur’anic Sura 18 (The Cave) through the lens of analytical psychology. Engaging, and at times challenging C.G. Jung’s own interpretations, Hatem situates the narrative of the Sleepers, Moses, and Khidr within the process of individuation, emphasizing...
Psychological Perspectives April 3, 2026 K. Jironet
This essay offers a creative and psychologically grounded dialogue between Carl Gustav Jung and Hazrat Inayat Khan, the early 20th-century Indian Sufi mystic and musician who brought Chishti Sufi mysticism to the West. While Jung is well known for engaging Christianity, Gnosticism, and Eastern religions, Islam—particularly its mystical dimension—has remained underexplored in Jungian psychology....
Psychological Perspectives January 2, 2020 Oreet Rees, Leanne Whitney 5 citations
The sleep paralysis nightmare has been reported from antiquity to modernity across manifold cultures. Many people who experience nocturnal assaults by dark entities, demons, hags, or incubi during sleep paralysis ascribe them to evil spirits with varying degrees of malevolence. The majority report the episodes as terrifying, mysterious, and uncanny. Known in the neurocognitive literature as...
Psychological Perspectives December 1, 1998 Ernest Lawrence Rossi 3 citations
Marie-Louise von Franz's classical volume on Number and Time was a pioneering effort to explore the deep archetypal structure of the way we organize our understanding of ourselves and the world. She used dreams, myths, and ancient cultural images to illustrate how numbers provide us with important insights into the co-creative dynamics of the psyche. In this column I seek to extend von Franz's...
Psychological Perspectives March 1, 1988 Rupert Sheldrake 3 citations
This is the third in our series of essays by Rupert Sheldrake on the implications of his hypothesis of Formative Causation for the psychology of C. G. Jung. The intense controversy thishypothesis generated with the publication of his first book, A New Science of Life (1981), has stimulated a number of international competitions for evaluating his ideas via experimental investigations. The...