Works wonders for Clerics with their Meditate and Mother's Blessing or any Spell Caster with meditate really.

If that is the case it gives the book itself an almost mystical quality and elevates the conversation more to the spirit of a philosophical dialogue.

I also saw them devoid of a practical technique or application for a world where years of analysis cost more than most trauma patients will make in a lifetime. The container must remain flexible if we are to grow into our humanity as a society and an aware people. I saw those as the most viable map towards the future of psychology, even though American psychology had largely forgotten them. He has a reputation for keeping lock and key as regards the Jung family archive, and this is still quite present in his commentary. Mind does, like the game states, increase the success of special skills, offensive and defensive magic.

The text is only superficially about the Red Book, what we are mostly left with are loose commentaries on related themes which never quite manage to give an elucidating word on the meaning of Liber Novus other than some paltry chat on the theme of the ancestors. There is a deep reverberation between the resonant implications these men are seeing The Red Book have for modern psychology . The earliest conversations explicate Jung's work, providing a framework for exploring and understanding the Book. There could be no better authors to explore the end of Jung's thought than James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani. His hope was that it could help psychology understand the functions of the human need for religion, mythology and the transcendental.

He sees something in the Red Book that he allows to clarify his earlier attempt to revision psychology. Just as Jungian psychology is meant to be a container to help an individual integrate the forces of the collective unconscious, attention to the unlived life of the historical dead can be a kind of container for culture. I've come to the conclusion that psychological language does do damage, it isn't really the language of the soul.

These models made room for a direct experience in psychology that Jungian analysis does not often do. Soul replies by saying, “Yes, this too has place, may find its archetypal significance, belongs in a myth. I was struggling with Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (another story of descent into the underworld), and she recommended that I take a look at a little volume titled Oedipus Variations written by both Hillman and Kerenyi.

The medical, corporate, credentialist and academic restructuring of psychology in the nineteen eighties certainly furthered that problem. Are there any universal directions for living and behaving that Jungian psychology compels us towards (ethics)? We see the animating and spiritually fulfilling quality of the ethics that these men hope will guide modern psychology but we are not quite able to see it as they see it. I would never have heard the voice of James Hillman inside myself unless I had learned to listen to the dead from his voice beyond the grave. Lament for the Dead, Psychology after Carl Jung’s The Red Book is a dialogue between ex Jungian analyst James Hillman and Jungian scholar Sonu Shamdasani about the implications the Red Book has for Jungian psychology.