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Jacob's ladder : essays on experiences of the ineffable in the context of contemporary psychotherapy

In this fascinating work, Josephine Klein considers mysticism - a world of ineffable experience - to see if it might have anything to teach those in the therapeutic world and invites the reader to look at newer ways of psychoanalytic thinking. She uses artists and writers of the past to help illuminate contemporary issues
Print Book, English, 2003
Karnac, London, 2003
viii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781855759367, 1855759365
52531109
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
Bach and Handel, transparency and quiddity
CHAPTER TWO: Methodology, language, focus, limits, assumptions, method
CHAPTER THREE: To sing in the presence of a lion
to talk about the ineffable
CHAPTER FOUR: The experience of the Holy: Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans
CHAPTER FIVE: Unselfish love
some theories
CHAPTER SIX: Love, some examples
CHAPTER SEVEN: Blurred boundaries and bliss, union, communion and projective processes
CHAPTER EIGHT: Beyond between within above
spatial metaphors and the intersect
CHAPTER NINE: Processes in the intersect
CHAPTER TEN: Will and attention
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Narcissism
the mystics' remedy