Edward F. Edinger - Ego and Archetype

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book is about the individuals 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 individuals worldview and makes possible a new and more meaningful way of life.

EDWARD F. EDINGER, M.D., a founding member of the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology in New York, is the author of many books on Jungian psychology, including The Eternal Drama and Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy.

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THE WORLD SOUL by Robert Fludd. The anima as personification of the ego-Self axis transmits guidance and support to the ego from the archetypal psyche. (Detail)

EGO & ARCHETYPE

Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

Edward F. Edinger

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Edinger, Edward F.

Ego and archetype: individuation and the religious function of the psyche/Edward F. Edinger.1st Shambhala ed.

p. cm.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1972.

A C. G. Jung Foundation book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN 978-0-8348-2389-1

ISBN 0-87773-576-X

1. Individuation (Psychology) 2. Ego (Psychology)

3. Archetype (Psychology) 4. Psychoanalysis and religion. I. Title.

BF175.5.153 1991

150.1954dc20

90-53380

CIP

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book is the result of a decade of thought and writing. Part I began as a small paper entitled The Ego-Self Paradox published in The Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1960. It was later expanded and given as a series of lectures to the Analytical Psychology Clubs of New York (1962) and Los Angeles (1963), and in Montreal (1964). was originally a lecture given to the Analytical Psychology Club of New York (1969).

I am grateful to Doreen B. Lee for her skillful preparation of the manuscript, also to Rhoda Head, editor, and to the Publications Committee of the C. G. Jung Foundation. I acknowledge gratefully permission to use pictures from the following sources:

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