"Shamdasani has performed a valuable service by editing these seminar notes and making them available to a wider audience. In addition to Jung's four lectures [he] provides an excellent introduction as well as informative footnotes.... This volume is a welcome addition to the Bollingen Seminar Series."---William E. Kotsch, Journal of Analytical Psychology

Autorentext

Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. He is the editor of Theodore Flournoy's From India to the Planet Mars: A Case of Multiple Personality with Imaginary Languages (Princeton), of Michael Fordham's Analyst-Patient Interaction, and, with Michael Munchow, Speculations after Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Culture.

Klappentext

Jung's seminar on Kundalini yoga, presented to the Psychological Club in Zurich in 1932, has been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought and of the symbolic transformations of inner experience. Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model for the developmental phases of higher consciousness, and he interpreted its symbols in terms of the process of individuation. Sonu Shamdasani has brought together the lectures and discussions from this seminar for the first time. This volume also offers newly translated material from Jung's German language seminars, a seminar by the indologist Wilhelm Hauer presented in conjunction with that of Jung, and Sir John Woodroffe's classic translation of the tantric text, the Sat-cakra-nirupana.

Zusammenfassung
Re-creates the fascination with which many intellectuals of prewar Europe regarded Eastern spirituality as they discovered more and more of its resources, from yoga to tantric texts. This book explains why Jung thought that the comprehension of Eastern thought was essential if Western psychology was to develop.

Inhalt

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii MEMBERS OF THE SEMINAR xiv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xv INTRODUCTION: JUNG'S JOURNEY TO THE EAST, by Sonu Shamdasani xvii Lecture 1: 12 October 1932 3 Lecture 2: 19 October 1932 23 Lecture 3: 26 October 1932 42 Lecture 4: 2 November 1932 60 Appendix I: Indian Parallels, I I October 1930 71 Appendix 2: Jung's Comments in Hauer's German Lectures, 5-8 October 1932 79 Appendix 3: Hauer's English Lecture, 8 October 1932 88 Appendix 4: Sat-cakra-nirupana III