Jungian Dimensions of the Mourning Process, Burial Rituals and Access to the Land of the Dead: Intimations of Immortality

This book explores diverse Jungian, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, and depth-psychological perspectives on mourning, burial rites, and intimations of immortality, offering insights relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental disasters. It covers topics such as clinical observations, burial rites, exclusion from ancestors, unconscious processes, and cultural complexes. It is a valuable resource for academic researchers, Jungian analysts, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, anthropologists, cultural theorists, and students interested in these subjects.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 22 August 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This groundbreaking volume delves into the intricate realm of mourning, burial rites, and intimations of immortality, offering a diverse range of Jungian, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, and depth-psychological perspectives. Written predominantly by graduates and candidates of the CG Jung Institute Zürich, the themes of this book are particularly pertinent in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and other environmental disasters, where countless individuals have passed away without proper burial, hindering their proper commemoration and status value. The contributors cover a wide array of subjects, encompassing clinical observations related to grief and loss in the prolonged mourning process, the significance of burial rites in cyclical and linear temporalities, and an exploration of why certain dead are excluded from becoming ancestors. Additionally, unconscious processes such as dreams, archetypes, and cultural complexes from the personal and collective unconscious are presented and analyzed.

This comprehensive collection is of immense interest to interdisciplinary academic researchers, Jungian analysts, students, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, anthropologists, cultural theorists, and individuals passionate about the mourning process, rites of passage, past and present burial practices, and the imaginative and symbolic significance of the land of the dead. By exploring these profound themes, this volume contributes to our understanding of the human psyche and the complexities of human experience, offering valuable insights and perspectives for scholars and practitioners alike.

Weight: 450g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032321943