{ "item_title" : "Breaking The Spell Of Disenchantment", "item_author" : [" Roderick Main "], "item_description" : "One of the most powerful narratives gripping scientists, intellectuals, and the general culture in Europe during the early decades of the twentieth century was that the world had become disenchanted: stripped of genuine mystery, lacking inherent meaning, and unrelated to any spiritual or divine reality. In Breaking the Spell of Disenchantment, Roderick Main examines various ways in which C. G. Jung's analytical psychology, developed during this same period, can be seen to challenge that dominant narrative.After explaining the complex and ambivalent nature of disenchantment and the many different responses to it, Main shows how the Jungian process of individuation intrinsically fosters a culturally much needed reenchantment of the world, though in a way that also continues to acknowledge the role of both disenchantment and na ve enchantment. He then focuses in turn on Jung's lifelong engagement with anomalous phenomena, his concept of synchronicity as a principle of acausal connection through meaning, and his implicit panentheistic metaphysics to show in greater detail how, contrary to disenchantment, analytical psychology affirms genuine mystery, inherent meaning, and relationship to spiritual or divine reality.The vision that emerges is of a particularly rich and distinctive form of holism, valuable not only for psychotherapy but also as a critical perspective on some of our current social, political, and environmental crises, insofar as these have roots in the still prevalent story of disenchantment.This is Volume 8 in the Zurich Lecture Series Collection.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. DisenchantmentDisenchantment in Weber's Science as a VocationJung's Experience of DisenchantmentResponses to DisenchantmentJung's Response to DisenchantmentIndividuationBreaking the Spell of Disenchantment: The Countermagic of IndividuationEnchantment-Disenchantment-ReenchantmentJung, Weber, and the Unio MysticaConclusionEndnotes2. MysteryJung's Studies and Experiences of Anomalous PhenomenaSynchronicity as a Framework for Understanding Anomalous PhenomenaSynchronicity and Categories of Anomalous PhenomenaSynchronicity and Jung's Anomalous ExperiencesJung's Focus on the Meaning of Anomalous PhenomenaThe Meaning of Jung's Anomalous ExperiencesConclusionEndnotes3. MeaningThe Meaning of Meaning in Meaningful CoincidenceShaking the Security of Our Scientific Foundations Meaning in ScienceConclusionEndnotes4. MetaphysicsJung and MetaphysicsThe Theistic Roots of DisenchantmentPanentheismJungian Psychology as an Instance of Modern Panentheistic ThoughtThe Undoing of DisenchantmentPanentheistic vis- -vis Disenchanted Science and ReligionConclusionEndnotesBiographical noteReferencesIndex", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/68/503/076/1685030769_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "32.00", "online_price" : "32.00", "our_price" : "32.00", "club_price" : "32.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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