Depth Psychology and Mysticism (eBook)

Thomas Cattoi is Associate Professor of Christology and Cultures, Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University and Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. He co-edits the journal Buddhist-Christian Studies and is the author of Divine Contingency: Theologies of Divine Embodiment in Maximos the Confessor and Tsong kha pa (2009) and Theodore the Studite: Writings on Iconoclasm (2014).   David M. Odorisio  is Director of The Retreat at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, and teaches in Pacifica’s Mythological Studies graduate degree program in the areas of methodology, psychology and religion, and comparative mysticism.  He has published in numerous journals at the intersection of depth psychology and religious studies.

Introduction

Depth Psychology and Mystical Phenomena: The Challenge of the Numinous

Thomas Cattoi and David M. Odorisio

 

I:  METHODOLOGICAL, HERMENEUTIC, & INTER-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

 

Rescuing Alexandria: Depth Psychology and the Return of Tropological Exegesis

Thomas Cattoi

 

Dionysus in Depth: Mystes, Madness, and Method in James Hillman’s Re-visioning of Psychology

David M. Odorisio

 

The Royal Road Meets the Data Highway

Kelly Bulkeley

 

Spirituality and the Challenge of Clinical Pluralism: Participatory Thinking in Psychotherapeutic Context

Robin S. Brown

 

Descriptive Disenchantment and Prescriptive Disillusionment: Myths, Mysticism, and Psychotherapeutic Interpretation

Ira Helderman

 

II:  HISTORICAL & THEORETICAL APPROACHES

 

Embodying Nonduality: Depth Psychology in American Mysticism

Ann Gleig

 

Mysticism in Translation: Psychological Advances, Cautionary Tales

William B. Parsons

 

Sigmund Freud and Jewish Mysticism:  An Exploration

Christine Downing

 

Jung and Mysticism

Lionel Corbett

 

Mystic Descent: James Hillman and the Religious Imagination

 Glen Slater

 

III:  SELF AND NO-SELF, KNOWING AND UNKNOWING IN DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY & MYSTICISM

 

Apophasis and Psychoanalysis

David Henderson

 

Divine Darkness and Divine Light: Alchemical Illumination and the Mystical Play Between Knowing and Unknowing

Stanton Marlan

 

Nothing Almost Sees Miracles! Self and No-Self in Depth Psychology and Mystical Theology

David L. Miller

 

 “In Killing You Changed Death to Life”:  Transformation of the Self in St. John of the Cross and Carl Jung June McDaniel

 

The Buddhist Unconscious (Alaya-vijnana) and Jung’s Collective Unconscious: What Does It Mean to be Liberated from the Self?

Polly Young-Eisendrath