Edward F. Edinger, The Christian Archetype Assumption and Coronation of Mary The dogmatization of the Assumptio Mariae points to the hieros gamos in the pleroma, and this in turn implies . . .the future birth of the divine child, who, in accordance with the divine trend towards incarnation, will choose as his birthplace the empirical…
Joseph L. Henderson, Wisdom of the Serpent I — THE FEAR OF DEATH Not so very many years ago, in his Varieties of Religions Experience, William James foreshadowed an entirely new psychological relativity toward religious experience. Ignoring theology, he brought to his readers the benefit of an impartial and, above all, accepting attitude to all…
M. Esther Harding, The Parental Image The Return Home In the preceding chapter we saw how the subjective injury that Nora had received as a result of her childhood experiences had affected the image of the Mother and Father archetypes in her psyche. That is to say, the ontogenetic, personal aspect of the archetypal images…
Aniela Jaffe, An Archetypal Approach to Death Dreams and Ghosts Foreword by Carl Jung The author of this book has already made a name for herself by her valuable contributions to the literature of analytical psychology. Here she tells of strange tales which incur the odium of superstition and are therefore exchanged only in secret.…