Father-Daughter, Mother-Son: Freeing Ourselves from the Complexes That Bind Us by Verena Kast (6-Mar-1997) Paperback

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A Time to Mourn: Growing Through the Grief Process

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Frau Kast uses dreams to illustrate the stages of mourning and shows systematically how the unconscious stimulates us to encounter our grief. Mourning marks an end but it also fosters personal growth. It is a time of renewal, a time for incubation, for introspection, for going into oneself to gather strength, as a seed goes deep into the earth to find the resources for striving toward the light.

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Joy, Inspiration, and Hope (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology)

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Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/85766 “Emotion is an expression of the self,” Verena Kast writes in this ground-breaking study of the neglected emotions of joy, inspiration, and hope. “If we decide we no longer want to hide behind empty shells, then we will have to allow certain emotions more room. We will have to let ourselves laugh louder, cry louder, and shout for joy.” Kast skillfully and engagingly makes the case that not only therapists and analysts but also individuals seeking growth in their own lives should give more attention to the elated emotions. Fear of excess (mania) and analytic preoccupation with grief, anxiety, and depression have together caused joy and hope to be shunned as a focus in individuation (the process toward wholeness). Kast convincingly demonstrates the role of joy in relationship and existential involvement. Joy answers the human need for elated feeling and meaning in our lives, a need which is often filled in modern society by secularized parodies of religious ecstasy, such as addiction and compulsiveness. Kast explores the Dionysian myth as an archetypal image of the transforming effect of ecstasy on the personality. She considers Sisyphus, the absurd hero of French existentialism, as the symbol for rejection of false hope and joy, rejection which clears the way for true hope rooted in basic trust and the positive mother archetype. She suggests simple techniques for recapturing our joy through development of an autobiography of joy. Using this approach, we can discover what gives us joy personally, how we can best experience joy, and how and why we choke off our joy. By viewing joy, inspiration, and hope as core emotions in our being, we open ourselves to greater wholeness and fuller life.

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The Dynamics of Symbols: Fundamentals of Jungian Psychotherapy (Fromm psychology) by Verena Kast (1992-06-03)

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The Dynamics of Symbols: Fundamentals of Jungian Psychotherapy (Fromm Psychology)

(Book by Kast, Verena)

Book by Kast, Verena

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Father-Daughter, Mother-Son: Freeing Ourselves from the Complexes That Bind Us

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Kast, an analytical psychologist gives a new understanding of Father and Mother Complexes in the tradition of analysis of Freud and Jung, but from a different perspective than Freud and Jung. Where Freud and Jung produced their theories during a male – dominated age, Kast gives ground-breaking modern analysis of the vast range of mother and father complexes. Kast places particular emphasis on positive mother complexes, which have long been devalued and are still veiled in shadow. In this book, all kinds of complexes are clarified so that we can ultimately free ourselves from their negative impact. In so doing we can gain happiness and independence, and form better, closer relationships with others.

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