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Jungs explanation of the religious tendency of the psyche addresses many sides of the contemporary debate on religion and the role that it has in individual and social life. This book discusses the emergence of a new mythic consciousness and details ways in which this consciousness supersedes traditional concepts of religion to provide a spirituality of more universal inclusion.

On Behalf of the Mystical Fool examines Jungs critique of traditional western religion, demonstrating the negative consequences of religious and political collective unconsciousness, and their consequent social irresponsibility in todays culture. The book concludes by suggesting that a new religiosity and spirituality is currently emerging in the West based on the individuals access to the sense of ultimacy residual in the psyche, and seeking expression in a myth of a much wider compass.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students at all levels who are engaged in the expanding field of Jungian studies. It will also be key reading for anyone interested in the theoretical and therapeutic connections between the psyche and religious experience.

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On Behalf of the Mystical Fool

Jungs understanding of the religious tendency of the psyche addresses many sides of the contemporary debate on religion and the role that it has in individual and social life. This book discusses the emergence of a new mythic consciousness and details ways in which this consciousness supersedes traditional concepts of religion to provide a spirituality of more universal inclusion.

On Behalf of the Mystical Foolexamines Jungs critique of traditional Western religion, demonstrating the negative consequences of religious and political collective unconsciousness, and their consequent social irresponsibility in todays culture. The book concludes by suggesting that a new religiosity and spirituality is currently emerging in the West based on the individuals access to the sense of ultimacy residual in the psyche, and seeking expression in a myth of a much wider compass.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students at all levels who are engaged in the expanding field of Jungian studies. It will also be key reading for anyone interested in the theoretical and therapeutic connections between the psyche and religious experience.

John P.Dourleyis Professor Emeritus, Department of Religion, at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He graduated as a Jungian analyst from the Zurich/Kusnacht Institute in 1980 and has published widely on Jung and religion. His most recent books include Paul Tillich, Carl Jung, and the Recovery of Religion(Routledge, 2008).

On Behalf of the Mystical Fool

Jung on the Religious Situation

John P.Dourley

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dourley, John P.
On behalf of the mystical fool: Jung on the religious situation/John P.
Dourley.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-415-55222-6 (hardback)ISBN 978-0-415-55223-3 (pbk.)
1. Psychology, Religious. 2. Jungian psychology-Religious aspects. I. Title.
BL53.D65 2010
200.1'9dc22
2009017281

ISBN 0-203-86684-3 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN: 978-0-415-55222-6 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-415-55223-3 (pbk)

Contents
Preface

In 19361937 Carl Jung conjured up a prophet who, thirty years earlier, would have foreseen the face of then current Europe with its medieval persecutions of the Jews, with its collective submission to militant fascism and restored Roman salute, and with its homage to the swastika as the representation collectifreplacing the Christian cross but imbuing its followers with the same fidelity onto death. Jung rightly suspects that such a visionary thirty years before his time would have been hooted at by his contemporaries as a mystical fool (Jung 1968l:48).

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