Red Book, Middle Way

How Jung Parallels the Buddha's Method for Human Integration

Robert Ellis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2020
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80050-008-2 (ISBN)

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Jung's Red Book, finally published only in 2009, is a highly ambiguous text describing a succession of extraordinary visions, together with Jung's interpretation of them. Red Book, Middle Way offers a new interpretation of Jung's Red Book, in terms of the Middle Way, as a universal principle and embodied ethic, paralleled both in the Buddha's teachings and elsewhere. Jung explicitly discusses the Middle Way in the Red Book (although this has been largely ignored by scholars so far) as well as offering lots of material that can be understood in its terms. This book interprets the Red Book in relation to the archetypes met in its visions - the hero, the feminine, the Shadow, God and Christ, and follows Jung's process of integrating these different internal figures. To do this Jung needs to find the Middle Way between absolutes at every point, in a way similar to the Buddha.

Robert M Ellis has a Ph.D. in Philosophy and a Cambridge BA in Oriental Studies and Theology. He spent about 20 years practising Buddhism, including as a member of the Triratna Order. However, he now describes himself as a Middle Way practitioner without exclusive loyalty to any one religious tradition. Over the last 20 years he has developed Middle Way Philosophy and in 2013 he founded the Middle Way Society (www.middlewaysociety.org) to develop and apply Middle Way Philosophy beyond the limitations of the Buddhist tradition, both in theory and practice.

Introduction

1. The Middle Way in the Red Book and the Buddha's Quest

2. God as Integrative Archetype

3. The Wise: Elijah and Philemon

4. Christ as the Middle Way

5. The Tree of Life and the Mandala

6. Integrating the Shadow

7. The Soul and the Anima

8. Death of the Hero

9. Embodied Meaning and the Scholars

10. Complaints of the Dead

11. Gnostic versus Agnostic

12. Towards a Jungian Integrative Ethic

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	09.07.2020
Zusatzinfo	13 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	1-80050-008-4 / 1800500084
ISBN-13	978-1-80050-008-2 / 9781800500082
Zustand	Neuware