Description: Title: The Archetypal Imagination Author: Hollis, James Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Binding: Paperback Pages: 160 Dimensions: 8.46h x 5.62w x 0.52d Product Weight: 0.52 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781585442683 Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http: //oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/85764"What we wish to know, and most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp." With these words, James Hollis leads readers to consider the nature of our human need for meaning in life and for connection to a world less limiting than our own. In The Archetypal Imagination, Hollis offers a lyrical Jungian appreciation of the archetypal imagination. He argues that without the human mind's ability to form energy-filled images that link us to worlds beyond our rational and emotional capacities, we would have neither culture nor spirituality. Drawing upon the work of poets and philosophers, Hollis shows the importance of depth experience, meaning, and connection to an "other" world. Just as humans have instincts for biological survival and social interaction, we have instincts for spiritual connection as well. Just as our physical and social needs seek satisfaction, so the spiritual instincts of the human animal are expressed in images we form to evoke an emotional or spiritual response, as in our dreams, myths, and religious traditions. The author draws upon the work of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies to elucidate the archetypal imagination in literary forms. To underscore the importance of incarnating depth experience, he also examines a series of paintings by Nancy Witt. With the power of the archetypal imagination available to all of us, we are invited to summon courage to take on the world anew, to relinquish outmoded identities and defenses, and to risk a radical re-imagining of the larger possibilities of the world and of the self. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Texas A&M University Press
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Archetypal Imagination
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Subject: General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Publication Year: 2002
Item Weight: 7.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: James Hollis
Subject Area: Psychology
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
