Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http: //oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/86080 The Black sun, an ages-old image of the Darkness in individual lives and in life itself, has not been treated hospitably in the modern world.
He draws upon his clinical exper.
In the image of the Black sun, Marlan finds the hint of a Darkness that shines.
In this book, Jungian analyst Stanton Marlan reexamines the paradoxical image of the Black sun and the meaning of Darkness in Western culture.
Modern psychology has seen Darkness primarily as a negative force, something to move through and beyond, but it actually has an intrinsic importance to the human psyche.
Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http: //oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/86080 The Black sun, an ages-old image of the Darkness in individual lives and in life itself, has not been treated hospitably in the modern world.
The image of Kali appearing in the color insert following page 44 is (c) Maitreya Bowen, reproduced with her permission, maitreyabowen@yahoo.com.
Marlan\'s original reflections help us to explore the unknown Darkness conventionally called the Self.
It offers insight into modernity, the act of imagination, and the work of analysis in understanding depression, trauma, and transformation of the soul.
An important contribution to the understanding of alchemical psychology, this book draws on a postmodern sensibility to develop an original understanding of the Black sun.
He shows that the Black sun accompanies not only the most negative of psychic experiences but also the most sublime, resonating with the mystical experience of negative theology, the Kabbalah, the Buddhist notions of the void, and the Black light of the Sufi Mystics.
He draws upon his clinical experiences--and on a wide range of literature and art, including Goethe\'s Faust, Dante\'s Inferno, the Black art of Rothko and Reinhardt--to explore the influence of light and shadow on the fundamental structures of modern thought as well as the contemporary practice of analysis.
In the image of the Black sun, Marlan finds the hint of a Darkness that shines.
In this book, Jungian analyst Stanton Marlan reexamines the paradoxical image of the Black sun and the meaning of Darkness in Western culture.
Modern psychology has seen Darkness primarily as a negative force, something to move through and beyond, but it actually has an intrinsic importance to the human psyche.
Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http: //oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/86080 The Black sun, an ages-old image of the Darkness in individual lives and in life itself, has not been treated hospitably in the modern world
