Boundaries of the soul: The practice of Jung's psychology

532 Pages·1994·9.539 MB·English

by  June Singer

NEW AND REVISED
“Certainly the very best
introduction to Jung around...”
—- JosEPH CAMPBELL
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BOUNDARIES
OF THE SOUL
OTHER BOOKS BY JUNE SINGER
A Gnostic Book of Hours: Keys to Inner Wisdom
Seeing Through the Visible World: Jung, Gnosis and Chaos
Love's Energies
Androgyny: The Opposites Within
The Unholy Bible: Blake, Jung and the Collective Unconscious
BOUNDARIES
OF THE SOUL

The Practice of
Jung’s Psychology
REVISED
AND UPDATED
JUNE SINGER
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Boundaries of the Soul was originally published in hardcover
by Doubleday in 1972.
Quotations from the Collected Works of C. G. Jung edited by G. Adler, M.
Fordham, H. Read, translated by R. F. C. Hull, Bollingen Series XX.
Copyright © 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963,
1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 by Bollingen Foundation. Used by
permission of Princeton University Press. Excerpts from Memories, Dreams,
Reflections, edited by Aniela Jaffé, translated by Richard and Clara
Winston. Copyright © 1962, 1963 by Random House, Inc. Reprinted by
permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. and
William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd.
Excerpts in chapter 10 from the Chandogya Upanishad in the Perennial
Philosophy by Aldous Huxley. Copyright © 1944, 1945 by Aldous Huxley.
Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. and
Chatto & Windus, Ltd.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Singer, June.
Boundaries of the soul : the practice of Jung’s psychology /
June Singer.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Psychoanalysis. 2. Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.
I. Title.
BF173.S564 1994
150.19’°54—dc20 94-9070
CIP
ISBN 0-385-47529-2
Copyright © 1972, 1994 by June K. Singer
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Revised Anchor Books Edition: November 1994
7 9 10 8 6
You would not find out the boundaries of the soul,
even by travelling along every path: so deep a measure
does it have.
—HERACLITUS
I am indebted to the following: to Dr. Werner H. Engel, whose
encouragement was present at the conception of this book
and helped immeasurably throughout the writing; to Dr.
Leland H. Roloff, whose discerning comments helped me to
enliven the style; te Dr. Karen Signell and Suzanne Kent for
their critiques from the feminine perspective; to James B.
Martin, who corrected the final copy; and to Mary Kennedy,
who prepared the typescript with care and devotion. Finally, I
am grateful to my analysands, who allowed me to share in
their experience and so to deepen my own understanding.
June Singer
Palo Alto, California

Contents
Preface to the New Edition 1x
Introduction xiii
Part One: Tue Basics
1 + Analyst and Analysand 3
2 « Complexes by Day and Demons by Night 43
3 * From Associations to Archetypes 9/
4 + Are Archetypes Necessary? 105
Part Two: Tue INNER PROCESS
5 ¢ Individuation: The Process of Becoming Whole = 133
6 ¢ Persona and Shadow 1/58
7 ¢ Anima and Animus: The Opposites Within 1/78.
8 * Circumambulating the Self 209
9 * Understanding Our Dreams 243
10 « Dreaming the Dream Onward: Active
Imagination 272
Part Three: THe PERSON IN THE WorLpD
11 * Psychological Types: Key to Communication 319
12 + Psyche inthe World 352
Vill Contents
Part Four: ANALYSIS AND THE HUMAN Spirit
13 « Religion, and Other Approaches to the
Unknowable 373
14 * We Were Born Dying 419
Notes 446
List of Works Cited 456
Index 462
The Collected Works of C.G. Jung 477