Freud, Jung, and Spiritual Psychology

In this book Rudolf Steiner lays the foundation for a truly spiritual psychology. He begins by examining the principles of Freud and Jung. While Steiner agrees that the phenomena originating psychoanalysis are real, he claims that because Freud did not recognize spirit, the human soul experience was [...]
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In this book Rudolf Steiner lays the foundation for a truly spiritual psychology. He begins by examining the principles of Freud and Jung. While Steiner agrees that the phenomena originating psychoanalysis are real, he claims that because Freud did not recognize spirit, the human soul experience was cut off from the larger whole and reduced to subjective, personal history. Beginning with a phenomenological description of the threefold structure of human consciousness-reflective or mirror consciousness, supraconsciousness, and subconsciousness-he outlines an alternative psychology that takes into account both the soul's hidden powers and the complex connections between psychological and organic, bodily processes. Robert Sardello contributes a vital introduction from the perspective of a psychotherapist. "These lectures on psychoanalysis and spiritual psychology, given at the very time when the 'talking cure' was in its beginnings, force us to confront the inadequate knowledge used in founding psychoanalysis and psychotherapy as a method of soul work.... A truly spiritual psychology leads to wisdom of the soul ... [it] not only takes us out of the limited domain of psychology as concerned with subjective states and into the broader culture, it also takes us into an understanding of the body as the necessary organ through which spiritual perception must find its orientation."-FROM THE INTRODUCTION About the Author:
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) became a respected and well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, particularly known for his work on Goethe's scientific writings. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he began to develop his earlier philosophical principles into an approach to methodical research of psychological and spiritual phenomena. His multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, philosophy, religion, education (Waldorf schools), special education (the Camphill movement), economics, agriculture (biodynamics), science, architecture, and the arts (drama, speech and eurythmy). In 1924 he founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which has branches throughout the world.