C. G. Jung saw in the cultural history of Western man a progressive
evolution of its God-image. During the last ten years of his life, he
wrote a series of remarkable letters about the new God-image which is
now emerging through the discoveries of depth psychology.
Dr. Edward Edinger has selected fourteen of these letters to discuss and
has segmented the book into the following three parts:
EPISTEMOLOGICAL PREMISES - Modern man's new awareness of
subjectivity
THE PARADOXICAL GOD-The nature of the new God-image as a union of
opposites
CONTINUING INCARNATION-How the new God-image is born in individual
men and women
"If enough individuals have had that transformative experience
[conjunctio] within themselves, then they become seeds sown in the
collective psyche which can promote the unification of the collective
psyche as a whole. How many will it take? ... I think each individual
ought to live his life out of the hypothesis that maybe one would do."
-Edward F. Edinger
Edward F. Edinger is a leading Jungian analyst residing in Los
Angeles. He is a founding member of the C. G. Jung Foundation of New
York, and former chairman of the C. G. Jung Training Center in New York
where he practiced for many years. Dr. Edinger is the author of fourteen
books dealing with the Jungian themes of archetypes, psyche, Self, and
analysis.