Analytical psychology as a spiritual practice : an educational perspective

David Russell, Maureen H. Miner, Martin Dowson

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[After a decade of implementing a postgraduate program in analytical psychology, a psychology shaped by the belief that our human experience of reality is very incomplete, it is timely to reflect on what constituted its guiding intention. At the very heart of human experience there is a crack, a gap. It is this gap that accounts for the experience of psychological phenomena. The architects of the program had no desire to fill the gap in fact they saw it as a psychological wound that needed, not an anodyne but rather, an active working of the wound. Keeping the wound open by insisting on the absence of a ready-to-hand explanation, they offered a ‘no-answer’ as a path to a new dimension, one that transcends the ego, one which is akin to the I/eye of the storm, an emptiness/nothingness that is a place of new learning (learned ignorance). This path is usefully understood as a spiritual practice. The paper offers an account of the conceptual underpinning of this unique educational program and situates it in the intellectual context of analytical psychology.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationPapers presented at the UWS Psychology and Spirituality Society Annual Conference : Spirituality in Australia, Psychological, Social and Religious Perspectives, University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, 20 July 2007
    PublisherCentre for Human Interaction, Learning and Development
    Number of pages1
    ISBN (Electronic)9780975013182
    ISBN (Print)1740580095
    Publication statusPublished - 2007
    EventUniversity of Western Sydney. Psychology and Spirituality Society. Conference -
    Duration: 1 Jan 2007 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceUniversity of Western Sydney. Psychology and Spirituality Society. Conference
    Period1/01/07 → …

    Keywords

    • Jungian psychology
    • psychology
    • study and teaching (higher)
    • spirituality
    • Australia

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