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.