CG Jung & The Symbolic Life

Given the close relationship between Jung & Corbin, Jung's landmark talk on the symbolic life and this new celebratory volume are worthy of note here for those who might otherwise not be aware of them.

Symbolic Life 2009

Murray Stein, Guest Editor

Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, Vol. 82, Fall 2009

This new issue of Spring celebrates the 70th anniversary of Jung's 1939 lecture on "The Symbolic Life" to the Guild of Pastoral Psychology in London and considers if and how Jung’s path into living a symbolic life is still viable today.

Murray Stein, the President of the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich (ISAPZURICH), serves as the guest editor of this volume, and the contributors are all analysts or students affiliated with ISAPZURICH.

This issue also features an interview by Rob Henderson with Sonu Shamdasani, the editor of Jung’s famous Red Book to be published by W.W. Norton on October 7, 2009. The Red Book, a large, illuminated volume Jung created out of his own confrontation with the unconscious between 1914 and 1930, is a profound testament to Jung’s own process of living a symbolic life and is where he developed his principle theories—of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation.

Symbolic Life 2009 - Table of Contents:

Guest Editor’s Foreword	Murray Stein
Symbol as Psychic Transformer	Murray Stein
Imagination and Spirituality	Robert M. Mercurio
Living with Symbols	Heike Weis
The Symbolic Dimension in Trauma Therapy	Ursula Wirtz
The Odyssey as a Symbol for Jungian Analysis - The Limits of Symbolization	Doris Lier
The Golden Fish	Nathalie Baratoff
"Observe Nature and You Will Find the Stone" - Reflections on the Alchemical Treatise "Komarios to Cleopatra"	Andreas Schweizer
Lady Soul	Diane Cousineau Brutsche
The Wild Feminine: Reconnecting to a Powerful Archetypal Image	Katharina Casanova
And the River Swelled with Horses	Eleonóra Babejová
The Fountain of Memories – Buried and Uncovered	Maria Anna Bernasconi
A Collective Symbolic Life of Nothingness in Postmodern Times	Bernard Sartorius
INTERVIEW
The Red Book: Prima Materia of C. G. Jung: An "Enterview" with Sonu Shamdasani	Sonu Shamdasani & Rob Henderson
CURRENT CONTROVERSIES
The Psychologist as Repentance Preacher and Revivalist: Robert Romanyshyn on the Melting of the Polar Ice	Wolfgang Giegerich
BOOK REVIEW
Twisting toward the Kingdom: A Review of Thomas Moore’s Writing in the Sand: Jesus and the Soul of the Gospels	Dennis Patrick Slattery

And while we're on the subject of Jung - here is a very interesting site - unfortunately a fairly large Registration Fee is required, but this may be of interest: The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism.