The transcendent function : Jung's model of psychological growth through dialogue with the unconscious

THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 7
FOREWORD......Page 11
PREFACE......Page 13
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 15
DEVELOPMENT OF THE EGO IN WESTERN CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 17
EMERGENCE OF DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY AND EMPHASIS ON THE UNCONSCIOUS......Page 18
PRIMER ON THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 19
SCOPE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE WORK......Page 22
1916: HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 25
THE 1916 AND 1958 PUBLISHED FORMS OF THE ESSAY......Page 27
The Prefatory Note......Page 28
Definitional Sections......Page 29
Compensatory Relationship of the Unconscious to Consciousness......Page 30
Omnipresence and Compensation of the Unconscious......Page 33
The Constructive Method: Importance of Purpose and Meaning......Page 34
The Role of the Analyst: Mediating the Transcendent Function......Page 35
Artificially Inducing Unconscious Contents......Page 37
Producing Unconscious Material: Active Imagination......Page 38
Utilizing Unconscious Material: Creative Formulation and Understanding......Page 40
Relation of Ego to Unconscious: Bringing Together the Opposites......Page 41
Final Result: Dialogue Creating Emergence of the Third......Page 42
Closing Passages: Liberation and the Courage to be Oneself......Page 45
SYNTHESIS: THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION AS REFLECTED IN THE ESSAY......Page 46
3. TRACING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION THROUGH JUNG’S WORKS......Page 47
The Opposites: The Source and Development of Jung’s Thinking......Page 48
The Dynamic Opposition of Consciousness and the Unconscious......Page 53
The Role of Fantasy and Symbol......Page 58
Operation of the Transcendent Function......Page 63
Jung’s Ambiguity about the Nature of the Transcendent Function......Page 70
Individuation: Constructive View, Meaning and Transformation......Page 75
The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious......Page 79
Anima and Animus: Mediators between Consciousness and the Unconscious......Page 82
The Self as Progeny of the Transcendent Function......Page 86
Jung’s Inconsistencies Surrounding Dreams and the Divine......Page 88
The Shadow: Relationship to the Transcendent Function......Page 89
INTEGRATING THE REFERENCES TO THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 90
4. THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION AS THE CORE OF JUNG’S WORK......Page 93
THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION AS JUNG’S ROOT METAPHOR......Page 94
IMPLICATIONS OF THE EXPANSIVE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION BEYOND JUNG......Page 95
THE CORE OF THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 96
THE TRANSCENDENCE OF THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 98
5. THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION AND THE THEORIES OF OTHERS......Page 101
WINNICOTT: TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS AS MEDIATING ELEMENTS......Page 102
THE ANALYTIC FIELD: THE THIRD AS MEDIATING AGENT......Page 105
FREUD AND EGO PSYCHOLOGY: THE EGO AS A MEDIATING STRUCTURE......Page 107
OTHER DEPTH ANALOGIES: KOHUT, KLEIN, FORDHAM, AND HILLMAN......Page 109
NON-DEPTH ANALOGIES: GESTALT, CLIENT-CENTERED, AND COGNITIVE THERAPIES......Page 112
THE THIRD AS A UNIVERSAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT......Page 113
THE BINARY OPPOSITION INHERENT IN CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 115
BRIDGING THE CHASM BETWEEN SUBJECT AND OBJECT......Page 117
LIMINALITY AND INITIATION: AN ARCHETYPAL BETWEEN-NESS......Page 120
HERMES: THE ARCHETYPAL MESSENGER BETWEEN REALMS......Page 124
THE THIRD: FOUNDATIONS OF THE NUMBER THREE......Page 125
RHYTHM OF CONSCIOUSNESS BETWEEN DIFFERENTIATION AND UNITY......Page 128
THE TRANSCENDENT: CONNECTION WITH A GREATER CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 131
THE NEITHER/NOR AND AUTOCHTHONOUS URGES OF THE PSYCHE......Page 133
7. VIVIFYING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE......Page 137
THE METAPHORICAL VIEW OF THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 138
TILLING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION WITH THE ALCHEMICAL METAPHOR......Page 139
THE NEITHER/NOR AND THE METAPHORICAL THIRD......Page 140
THE GERMINATION OF THE ALCHEMICAL FOURTH......Page 142
PLOWING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION FIELD IN RELATIONSHIPS......Page 144
SURVEYING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES......Page 149
TRANSCENDENT FUNCTIONING IN THE GARDEN OF EVERYDAY LIFE......Page 152
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 157
APPENDIX: A Textual Comparison of the 1916 Version to the 1958 Version of “THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION”......Page 159
APPENDIX B: REFERENCES TO THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION IN JUNG’S WORKS, LETTERS, AND SEMINARS......Page 195
APPENDIX C: REVIEW OF LITERATURE RELATING TO “THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION”......Page 199
JUNG AND JUNG’S WRITINGS......Page 201
BASIC REFERENCE MATERIALS......Page 202
ELEMENTS OF JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY......Page 204
ORIGINS OF THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 209
ROLE OF THE ANALYST......Page 210
CLINICAL ASPECTS AND APPLICATIONS......Page 212
CULTURAL, POLITICAL, AND SOCIETAL CONTEXTS......Page 213
RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL MATTERS......Page 214
CHAPTER TWO. DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION ESSAY......Page 215
CHAPTER THREE. TRACING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION THROUGH JUNG’S WORKS......Page 216
CHAPTER FIVE. THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION AND THE THEORIES OF OTHERS......Page 218
CHAPTER SIX. THE DEEPER ROOTS OF THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 219
CHAPTER SEVEN. VIVIFYING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE......Page 220
REFERENCES......Page 223
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C......Page 236
E......Page 237
H......Page 238
M......Page 239
O......Page 240
R......Page 241
S......Page 242
T......Page 243
Z......Page 246