Susceptible to the Sacred

The Psychological Experience of Ritual
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-12619-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

In Susceptible to the Sacred, Bani Shorter, a well-known Jungian analyst, examines the psychological experience of ritual in contemporary life and how this promotes awareness of the individual's natural potential. Basing her book on live material, she investigates, with great sensitivity, how people perceive the sacred and use ritual in their search for purpose, motivation and transformation.

Zielgruppe

General, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shorter, Bani

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Made by media 2 Instant liturgy? 3 Theatre of the soul 4 The rite of creativity 5 Listening to subjectivity 6 Prisoner of a thousand faces 7 If ritual dies

Über Autor(innen)

Bani Shorter is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Edinburgh. She is also the author of An Image Darkly Forming: Women and Initiation (Routledge, 1987) and co-author with Andrew Samuels and Fred Plaut of A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis (Routledge, 1986).