Spring Journal Books
(the book publishing imprint of Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, the oldest Jungian psychology journal in the world)
LOVE
Traversing Its Peaks and Valleys
Jungian Odyssey Series, Vol. V
Featuring articles by James Hollis, Ann Ulanov, Mark Hederman, John Hill, and others
Stacy Wirth, Isabelle Meier, and John Hill, Series Editors
ISBN: 978-1-935528-46-3
228 pp.
Price: $24.95
This volume of essays arises from the 7th
Jungian Odyssey retreat, sponsored by ISAPZURICH and held in the summer
of 2012 in Flüeli-Ranft, an idyllic agricultural village in the central
Swiss Alps. A renowned place of pilgrimage in the 15th
century, it was the home of Swiss monk and mystic Brother Klaus whose
unorthodox biography and religious visions have been studied by many
scholars, including C.G. Jung.
The
spirit of this place subtly permeates the articles in this collection,
which illuminate love in its many forms and observe its joys, risks, and
ravages. The authors, invited guests and ISAPZURICH analysts,
contribute insight from the analytic consulting room, and draw as well
on theology, folk song, legend, myth, theater, and the visual arts.
Picking up a thread that runs throughout, Ann Ulanov writes, “To love a
particular someone, a definite idea, a distinct place, a principal
symbol, or notion of the psyche, opens us to loss with all its searing
pain.” Readers of this volume will find encouragement, but no easy
answers. In the end, the authors might be said to concur with Jung’s
frank confession, “… I have again and again been faced with the mystery
of love and have never been able to
explain what it is.”
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