In these late essays, Murray Stein circles around familiar Jungian themes such as synchronicity, individuation, archetypal image and symbol with a view to bringing these ideas into today’s largely globalized cultural space. These are reflections for our time, drawing importantly on the works of C.G. Jung, Erich Neumann, Wolfgang Pauli and a wide range of contemporary Jungian psychoanalytic writers. The general thesis is that all of humanity is connected—to one another, to nature and to the cosmos—and no human being should be left out of the picture of postmodern consciousness.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 – Outside Inside and All Around

Chapter 2 – Synchronizing Time and Eternity: A Matter of Practice

Chapter 3 – Music for a Later Age: Wolfgang Pauli’s “Piano Lesson”

Chapter 4 – A Lecture for the End of Time

Chapter 5 – “The Problem of Evil”

Chapter 6 – On Psyche’s Creativity

Chapter 7 – At the Brink of Transformation

Chapter 8 – Failure in the Crucible of Individuation

Chapter 9 – Imago Dei on the Psychological Plane

Chapter 10 – Jungian Psychology and the Spirit of Protestantism

Chapter 11 – Archetypes Across Cultural Divides

Chapter 12 – Where East Meets West:The House of Individuation

Chapter 13 – The Path from Symbol to Science

Chapter 14 – Cultural Trauma, Violence, and Treatment

Chapter 15 – Hope in a World of Terrorism – An Interview with Rob Henderson

Chapter 16 – When Symptom is Symbol

Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a supervising training analyst and former president of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland (ISAP Zurich). His most recent books include Outside Inside and All Around, Minding the Self and The Principle of Individuation. From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He lectures internationally on topics related to Analytical Psychology and its applications in the contemporary world. He is publisher emeritus of Chiron Publications and is the focus of many Asheville Jung Center online seminars.