Dying and Creating: A Search for Meaning (Library of Analytical Psychology) - Softcover

Gordon, Rosemary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0950598305 ISBN 13: 9780950598307

Publisher: The Society Of Analytical Psychology Ltd, 1978

Synopsis

Hard cover in very good condition, with clipped dust jacket in good condition. From the collection of Dr. Coline (Kitty) Covington, (1953-2023), a distinguished Jungian psychoanalyst and former chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council, ownership is penned to front pastedown. Tanning, creasing and wear to dust jacket, including small closed tears to edges (repaired). Boards are in fine condition, pages are tightly bound, and content unmarked. CN

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About the Author

Rosemary Gordon is an analytic psychologist in private practice in London. Karnac also publishes her book 'Bridges: Metaphor for Psychic Processes'.

Review

Dying and creating or, could we put it the other way round, creating and dying? Rosemary Gordon has chosen the first, the challenging title and the one that stimulates the reader to find out how they inter-relate. There are essential links between the facts and the concepts. C. G. Jung devoted much attention to the psychology of death, re-birth and transformation: the author acknowledges her debt to him, to his creative spirit and to the depth of his understanding. As she is a working analytical psychologist, much of the material in her. But she is also a theorist: the human and the academic come together.Many Westerners in the course of their daily lives conceal their fears of death and so they deprive themselves of the possibility of getting into touch with the hidden sources of creativeness. Patients in analysis communicate some of their deepest feelings and thoughts about preparing for death, and grieving, and dying: Dr. Gordon shows implicitly in her book how the creative analyst enables understanding to grow, when symbolization and creativeness are no longer hindered by paralyzing fears. She suggests convincingly that there exists an interaction between various psychopathological states of mind on the one hand, and a person's relation to dying and to the creative processes, on the other.This book contains a discussion in depth of the psychology of these processes, and of symbolizing. The philosophy of art is also shown by Rosemary Gordon to play an important part in working out links between dying and creating.Rosemary Gordon is an analytic psychologist in private practice in London. Karnac also publishes her book Bridges: Metaphor for Psychic Processes.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Society Of Analytical Psychology Ltd
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0950598305
• ISBN 13: 9780950598307
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186