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Ego and Archetype

Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

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Ego and Archetype

By: Edward F. Edinger
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
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Summary

A medical psychiatrist and founding member of the Jung Foundation explores a pivotal part of analytical psychology: encountering the self through individuation

This book is about the individual's journey to psychological wholeness, known in analytical psychology as the process of individuation. Edward Edinger traces the stages in this process and relates them to the search for meaning through encounters with symbolism in religion, myth, dreams, and art.

For contemporary men and women, Edinger believes, the encounter with the self is equivalent to the discovery of God. The result of the dialogue between the ego and the archetypal image of God is an experience that dramatically changes the individual's worldview and makes possible a new and more meaningful way of life.

©1972 the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology (P)2023 Tantor Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Jungian Psychology
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Two years into studying and living through my own mid life journey, this book hangs it all together.

This book has helped me build a relationship with a particularly old ‘complex’ pre-verbal somatic symptom.

The chapter on the ego-self axis as philosopher’s stone and reference to Martin Ruland were particularly valuable.

Robert Moore mentioned this book and I wish I had picked it up earlier, but I wouldn’t have been ready.

This book hangs it all together

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