The Jung Arena provides professionals, researchers, instructors and students with information on the range of Jung books produced by Routledge, Psychology Press, and also by Guilford Press.

Subjects covered by this Arena include: Jung and Analytical Psychology, Jungian Psychotherapy, the Collected Works of Jung, Sandplay, Child and Adolescent Jungian Therapy, and Jungian Analysis in Film Studies.

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Jung on Art: The Autonomy of the Creative Drive

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In this book, Tjeu van den Berk examines C. G. Jung's personal perspective on art and how his work intensely engages with this theme.

It analyses Jung’s profound reflections on artistic considerations such as how we experience art, the specific qualities in the perception of beauty, the nature of the creative process and the aesthetic attitude.

Jung on Art considers Jung's feelings about art simply being 'art' rather than reducing it to a moral, political, religious or psychological product. It also discusses Jung’s notion that the artist is only a breeding ground for a piece of art, and once complete, the piece has an independent existence.

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The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling is widely regarded as one of the most difficult and influential of German philosophers.

In this book, S. J. McGrath not only makes Schelling's ideas accessible to a general audience, he uncovers the romantic philosopher's seminal role as the creator of a concept which shaped and defined late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century psychology: the concept of the unconscious.

McGrath shows how the unconscious originally functioned in Schelling's philosophy as a bridge between nature and spirit.

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The Neurobiology of the Gods

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Where does science end and religion begin? Can "spiritual" images and feelings be understood on a neurobiological level without dismissing their power and mystery?

In this book, psychiatrist Erik Goodwyn addresses these questions by reviewing decades of research, putting together a compelling argument that the emotional imagery of myth and dreams can be traced to our deep brain physiology, and importantly, how a sensitive look at this data reveals why mythic or religious symbols are indeed more "godlike" than we might have imagined.

The Neurobiology of the Gods weaves together Jungian depth psychology with research in evolutionary psychology, neuroanatomy, cognitive science, neuroscience, anthropology, mental imagery, dream research, and metaphor theory into a comprehensive model of how our brains contribute to the recurrent images of dreams, myth, religion and even hallucinations.

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