Berdyaev, Jung, Corbin

C.G. Jung and Nikolai Berdyaev: Individuation and the Person
By Georg Nicolaus, Routledge, 2010 (google books)

Many thanks to Hadi Fakhoury for alerting me to this book. He suggests that Berdyaev was a major influence on Henry Corbin.  Nicolaus notes (p. 7) Corbin's recognition of the link between Jung's "sophiology" and Bulgakov's - and by implication that of Berdyaev who Corbin knew in the 1930's. As Fakhoury points out, Corbin's interest in Berdyaev's work was life-long and he was elected President of the Berdyaev Association in 1974.

"Georg Nicolaus' writing leaps beyond mere comparison of systems of Depth Psychology and spirituality, establishing a foundation for a true Spiritual Psychology. Depth psychology has long needed a balancing of the dark interior sufferings of the psyche with the soul’s openness to the truth of Divine radiance. Here it is!" - Robert Sardello, author of Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness and Director of The School of Spiritual Psychology, USA

"Jung and Berdyaev were self-consciously modern thinkers with very different backgrounds: Swiss Protestantism and Russian Orthodoxy. Central to them both was the notion of the person, not as a given, but as a creative opportunity. Dr Nicolaus’ thoughtful book is the first to bring their ideas into dialogue." - Andrew Louth, Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, Durham University, UK