This book grew out of years of reflections on real women's experiences. From them, Ann Ulanov states, a common voice emerged speaking about each woman's struggle to receive all of herself. Each was trying to find and put together different parts of herself into a whole that was personal, alive, and real to herself and to others. This book focuses on helping women receive themselves by rejecting stereotypes and categories and seeking out their own individuality.
In this delightful, phenomenological account, Kittelson writes in lively pursuit of the language of hearing, an ode to the persistent primacy of the ear. It's right here, she says, just around the corner from our noses.
Distinguished psychoanalyst and educator Ann Ulanov has gathered in this noteworthy volume a collection of essays she has written and delivered over some twenty years on the subject of issues related to religious belief and its difficulties in the work of Carl Jung. The essays fall into three Jung and Religion and Politics which include essays on Religion and Jung's View, Jung and Prayer, and Scapegoating; Teaching Jung on Religion which includes Jung and the Study of Religion, Teaching Jung in a Theological Seminary and a Graduate School of Religion, and Jung and Religion; the Relationship of Jung to Religion and Psychological Issues which includes A Shared Space, the Anxiety of Being, Between Anxiety and The Role of the Feminine in Tillich's Theological Thought, and Religious Devotion or Thérèse of Lisieux. These essays will make stimulating reading for students and professionals in the field of religion, theology, or spirituality, as well as for anyone with an interest in Carl Jung.
A Psychological Understanding
With a particularly strong emphasis on Jung's theories of archetypes, Dr. Ulanov's examination of her own experience with affliction is an example of psychology in practice. She details the terribly severe attacks of poison ivy that besiege her annually/ her personal point of view in applying the symbolism of Jung's archetypes to these attacks is refreshing in its individualization of the analysis. As a modern excursion into the territory handled by animistic cultures where priests make mandalas in the sand and ritual dancers dance away the spirits of illness, Ann Ulanov examines her own illness in the light of modern psychology. These sorts of rituals have been performed for many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years, and still resonate today. Dr. Ulanov discusses the physical, psychological, psychosomatic, psychosocial, and psycho-spiritual aspects of asking to be healed.
Seated in her nest of ashes, Cinderella embodies human misery. The essence of inner and outer nobility, she is the envy of her cruel stepmother and her ugly sisters. Using this familiar story, Ann and Barry Ulanov explore the psychological and theological aspects of envy and goodness. In their interpretation of the tale, they move back and forth between internal and external issues -- from how feminine and masculine parts of persons fit or do not fit together to how individuals conduct their lives with those of the same and opposite sexes, how they conflict, compete, or join harmoniously."The Cinderella tale, so simple and so profound, offers a direct road into and through the thickets of envying and being envied. Envy between sisters, between mothers and daughters, between the sexes, between nations ... between different parts of our own psyche, even of God -- these are the multiple places of wounding we touch in this book. The central role of envy in determining the very nature of our society -- its politics, for example -- is, we think, crucial." After considering this rarely discussed human emotion, the authors focus on the nature of goodness as it surfaces in the envy experience. They reflect on its abundance, ability to unite disparate parts, its abiding presence, and its joy, then conclude with a glossary of terms and a brief review of the psychological literature on envy.
ženy dle autorky v náboženství době jeho vzniku hrály ve skutečnosti mnohem významnější úlohu, než jakou jim určilo křesťanství později