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This paper considers Jung’s lifelong engagement with the phenomenon of religion. More specifically, it examines the development of his theories in relation to the stages of his life and how religion gradually assumed a definite place in his theory and practice; moving over from psychiatry through psychoanalysis and typology to the theory of archetypes, and finally to the psychology of religious motifs. From the years spent composing his Red Book,...

The relationship between Roberto Assagioli (1888-1974), the founder of psychosynthesis, and Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), the founder of analytical psychology, is examined by studying a wide range of documents, some unpublished, written by or transcribed from interviews with Assagioli. The long-term professional and friendly relationship between the two men, marked by respect and mutual interest, began in 1907 and lasted until Jung's death in...

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This statement of faith, philosophy and principles is a piece of self-analysis and provides the model for the application of Jungian psychoanalysis to an individual's life. The book contains Jung's systematic thinking about the existence of God.

The main aim of this study is to present the results from a study of the relationship between personality types described by C. G. Jung and emotional intelligence. The investigated subjects were 150 at the age of 18 - 50. The methods of research were MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) - Bulgarian adaptation (Rusinova, 1992) and one psychological questionnaire measuring emotional intelligence -Bulgarian adaptation (Stoyanova, 2008). The received data...

The significance of Spielrein's 'destruction thesis', as presented in her seminal paper, "Destruction as a Cause of Coming Into Being" (1994/1912), which includes: the element of a destructive component residing within sexuality; the resulting conflict arising between two fundamental biological drives; that of self-preservation and species-preservation, and the psychological consequences of the aforementioned conflict and its...

About a hundred years ago, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud penned influential writings on the nature of religion and how the religious imagination construes death. This article assesses the current relevance of their ideas in light of experimental psychology, neuroscience, and psychohistory research in recent decades. Topics include Terror Management Theory; the psychology of fundamentalism; Jungian archetypes as emergent outcomes of nature-nurture interaction;...

This article introduces the close relationship between Jung and Chinese religions, compares Jung's psychological theories to Chinese religious thoughts taking Buddhism and Taoism as examples, and draws the following three conclusions. First, although Jung never went to China, Jung's interest and studies in Chinese religions continued throughout his life. Second, there are important similarities and differences between Jung's unity of opposites...

This paper explores connections between the psychic anthropology of C. G. Jung and that of Maximus the Confessor, a 7th-century Eastern Christian philosopher. Both saw the ability to fully bear one's experiences without avoidance through fantasy as a key to human health and the target of therapy. Maximus understood avoidance of experience as a partly conscious turning of the self away from God in order to create fantastic fields of control, and...