The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga - C. G. Jung

The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga

Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932

(Autor)

Sonu Shamdasani (Herausgeber)

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192 Seiten
1999
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-00676-5 (ISBN)
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Re-creates the fascination with which many intellectuals of prewar Europe regarded Eastern spirituality as they discovered more and more of its resources, from yoga to tantric texts. This book explains why Jung thought that the comprehension of Eastern thought was essential if Western psychology was to develop.
"Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model of something that was almost completely lacking in Western psychology--an account of the development phases of higher consciousness...Jung's insistence on the psychogenic and symbolic significance of such states is even more timely now than then. As R. D. Laing stated...'It was Jung who broke the ground here, but few followed him.'"--From the introduction by Sonu Shamdasani Jung's seminar on Kundalini yoga, presented to the Psychological Club in Zurich in 1932, has been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought and of the symbolic transformations of inner experience. Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model for the developmental phases of higher consciousness, and he interpreted its symbols in terms of the process of individuation. With sensitivity toward a new generation's interest in alternative religions and psychological exploration, Sonu Shamdasani has brought together the lectures and discussions from this seminar.
In this volume, he re-creates for today's reader the fascination with which many intellectuals of prewar Europe regarded Eastern spirituality as they discovered more and more of its resources, from yoga to tantric texts. Reconstructing this seminar through new documentation, Shamdasani explains, in his introduction, why Jung thought that the comprehension of Eastern thought was essential if Western psychology was to develop. He goes on to orient today's audience toward an appreciation of some of the questions that stirred the minds of Jung and his seminar group: What is the relation between Eastern schools of liberation and Western psychotherapy? What connection is there between esoteric religious traditions and spontaneous individual experience? What light do the symbols of Kundalini yoga shed on conditions diagnosed as psychotic? Not only were these questions important to analysts in the 1930s but, as Shamdasani stresses, they continue to have psychological relevance for readers on the threshold of the twenty-first century.
This volume also offers newly translated material from Jung's German language seminars, a seminar by the indologist Wilhelm Hauer presented in conjunction with that of Jung, illustrations of the cakras, and Sir John Woodroffe's classic translation of the tantric text, the Sat-cakra Nirupana.

Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. He is the editor of Theodore Flournoy's From India to the Planet Mars: A Case of Multiple Personality with Imaginary Languages (Princeton), of Michael Fordham's Analyst-Patient Interaction, and, with Michael Munchow, Speculations after Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Culture.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii MEMBERS OF THE SEMINAR xiv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xv INTRODUCTION: JUNG'S JOURNEY TO THE EAST, by Sonu Shamdasani xvii Lecture 1: 12 October 1932 3 Lecture 2: 19 October 1932 23 Lecture 3: 26 October 1932 42 Lecture 4: 2 November 1932 60 Appendix I: Indian Parallels, I I October 1930 71 Appendix 2: Jung's Comments in Hauer's German Lectures, 5-8 October 1932 79 Appendix 3: Hauer's English Lecture, 8 October 1932 88 Appendix 4: Sat-cakra-nirupana III

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.7.1999
Reihe/Serie Bollingen Series
Zusatzinfo 8 halftones
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 255 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Hinduismus
ISBN-10 0-691-00676-8 / 0691006768
ISBN-13 978-0-691-00676-5 / 9780691006765
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