Psychological Perspectives, Volume 66, Issue 3 (2023)
In the latest issue of Psychological Perspectives the collected authors address encounters with the divine and with darkness.
James Driscoll’s analyses “King Lear, Answer to Job: The Archetypes of Godhead” to show how Lear and Job mirror changes in the Western God-image. In a deeply personal article Michael Gellert writes on “Reframing the Problem of Evil.” In his essay, “C.G. Jung and God,” Lance Owens an essay on Mysterium Coniunctionis (1955).
Donna Glee Williams and Jay Joslin offer us “Reflections,” a collaborative revisioning of the myth of Medusa and Perseus. Holly Fincher’s “The Cosmic Tree is Rending” brings our theme of encounter with divine darkness into the personal experience of the author during the COVID pandemic.
Susan Schept, writes “The Transformational Impact of Bar/Bat Mitzvah on Adolescents, Parents, Grandparents: A Jungian Analysis”. Elliott Morgan writes on “Sacred Skies: UFOs and the Religious Function of the Psyche.”