Imagination is Reality: Western Nirvana in Jung, Hillman, Barfield & Cassirer

Avens, Roberts

ISBN 10: 0882143115 / ISBN 13: 9780882143118

Published by Spring, Irving, 1980

About this Item

Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 127 pp. Internally clean. Binding firm, with minor wear to spine. Edges foxed and browned. Covers creased and worn. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Psychology & Psychiatry; Magic, Paranormal & Occult. ISBN: 0882143115. ISBN/EAN: 9780882143118. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 59285.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Imagination is Reality: Western Nirvana in Jung, Hillman, Barfield & Cassirer
• Publisher: Spring, Irving
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0882143115
• ISBN 13: 9780882143118
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology & Psychiatry

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Synopsis

This small book is the first comprehensive essay to place archetypal psychology within a major tradition of modern thought, the tradition of mythical thinking, and to recognize imagination as the primal force and basic reality of human life. By drawing upon the writings of four twentieth-century thinkers, the author clarifies the post-Jungian direction of psychology as it moves toward poetic and polytheistic imagination. He then compares the radical achievements of this direction in resolving the 'ego-education' with the methods and ideas of the East: Buddhism, Tantrism, Zen, Vedanta.

Synopsis

This comprehensive essay places archetypal psychology within a major tradition of modern thought - the tradition of mythical thinking and recognizes imagination as the primal force of human life. By drawing upon the writings of four 20th century thinkers, the author clarifies the post-Jungian direction of psychology as it moves toward poetic and polytheistic imagination.