The functioning transcendent
Subtitle: a study in analytical psychology
By: Ann Belford Ulanov.
Publisher: Chiron Publications
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Wilmette, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Description: The transcendent is a reality that functions in all our lives all the time - call it God, the unknown, or the holy. It is not some obscure out-of-reach Other available only to those with specialized knowledge or a phenomenon spoken about only in a church, temple, or mosque. The Transcendent is both beyond us, yet functioning within each of us. It is present in our exchanges with others, yet nearer to us than our own heartbeat. In our daily lives, the Transcendent is often experienced addressing us through our compulsions, perversions, and ordinary struggles. We find it touching us through our most shameful problems and bidding us to realize our most hidden promise.

Jungian analyst Ann Ulanov shows us how the Transcendent appears in her clinical work, how to work with it in dreams and symptoms, and how it informs encounters between analyst and analysand. She demonstrates the spiritual aspect of analysis in her case observations dealing with fatness and the female, masochistic suffering, parental relationships, follow-up treatment in patient/therapist sex, and the resolution of suicidal temptations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spiritual aspects of clinical work; title: Fatness and the female; title: The perverse and the Transcendent; title: Birth and rebirth; title: The search for paternal roots; title: Follow-up treatment in cases of patient/therapist sex; title: Transference/countertransference; title: Self service; title: Disguises of the anima; title: Vicissitudes of living in the self.