Proefschrift Zürich.

Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Zürich. / Bibliogr. p. 409-424.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University. / Carl Gustav Jung has devoted specific attention to religion and the Christian Eucharist. The individuation process is central to his system and he identifies the Eucharist as a rite of individuation. The dissertation investigates the theories of analytical psychology pertaining to this sacrament. Comparisons are made between Christian and non-Christian sacramental rites as a means of clarification and illustration. An essay written by a counselee after termination of a therapeutic relationship with a pastor is presented to illustrate how individuation may function in the Eucharist and to give a basis for a critique of Jung's theories. Jung holds that religion as a deeply rooted phenomenon of human psychic life is founded in the collective unconscious and is archetypal in nature; the archetypes are symbolized when they manifest themselves to consciousness. When the self archetype which is very similar to the God archetype becomes more highly differentiated and synthesizes other archetypes around itself a person experiences individuation which is a natural process tending toward union of personality. The change from a segmented to a unified psyche is effected via the process of transformation. The Eucharist is seen as a general therapeutic system which leads toward individuation [TRUNCATED]

Diss. / Bibliogr. p. 380-396. Index.

Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Zürich. / Notes bibliogr.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / Carl Gustav Jung has devoted considerable attention to the study of man's image or concept of God. This dissertation investigates Jung's theories and findings relevant to man's concept of God, sets forth a systematic presentation of these theories and findings, compares Jung's concept of God with a Christian concept of God as stated by Emil Brunner, and evaluates critically Jung's concept of God. An examination of Jung's works revealed that the concept of God in analytical psychology is based on Jung's theory of the collective unconscious and its archetypes. When Jung applies his theory of the collective unconscious to his observations of various religious phenomena, he concludes that there is a certain spiritual content of the human psyche which he calls the God archetype. In other words, he regards God as an archetype of the collective unconscious which expresses itself regularly in archetypal images or symbols. When the statements about the concept of God in Jung's psychology are drawn together and set forth in a systematic presentation, we observe four important factors: First, Jung is certain that what man experiences as revelation is the manifestation of the God archetype from deep within the collective unconscious. Second, Jung asserts that since God is an archetype we are forced to think of God as relative. Thus, God is as dependent upon man as man is upon God. Third, the essential aspect of the concept of God is "wholeness" or "completeness." Therefore, He is both good and evil, darkness as well as light. Fourth, Jung contends that the Godhead is composed of a quaternity rather than a trinity. [TRUNCATED] / 2031-01-01

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