The renowned Jungian psychologist and author of Transformation and Owning Your Own Shadow brings the hidden gift of ecstasy back into our lives.Robert A. Johnson has taken tens of thousands of readers on spiritual and psychological journeys towards inner transformation. In Ecstasy, he reconnects with the powerful and life-changing ecstatic element that lies dormant—but long-repressed—within us.Ecstasy was once considered a divine gi...

One of the original primers on shadow work—A spiritual guide to fully understanding your psyche and unconscious mind to achieve transformative self-acceptanceIn this mind—and life—altering volume, Jungian expert and renowned author Robert A. Johnson introduces the foundational principles of inner work, describing how we all have shadows—the unlit, undesirable, part of our ego that is hidden deep within us that merely—and often painfully—turns up in unexpected places. As we leave th...

From Robert A. Johnson, the bestselling author of Transformation, Owning Your Own Shadow, and the groundbreaking works He, She, and We, comes a practical four-step approach to using dreams and the imagination for a journey of inner transformation. In Inner Work, the renowned Jungian analyst offers a powerful and direct way to approach the inner world of the unconscious, often resulting in a central transformative experience. A repackaged classic...

Robert A. Johnson's groundbreaking work of Jungian psychology on how women transition into being mature and developing their own identity—newly reissued.What does it mean to be a woman? What is the pathway to mature femininity? And what of the masculine components of a woman’s personality?Many scholars and writers have long considered that the ancient myth of Amor and Psyche is really the story of a woman’s task of becoming whole, complete, and individuated...

“Entertaining, informative, thought-provoking, mysterious, poetic. Men who read it will surely learn much about themselves, and women—particularly those who are unfortunately misled into thinking of men as “the enemy”—will find it a real eye-opener.”—Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse, M.D., Th.M., Harvard UniversityRobert A. Johnson's classic work of Jungian psychology, exploring the differences between man and woman, female and male—newly reissued.

From Robert A. Johnson, the bestselling author of Transformation, Owning Your Own Shadow, and the groundbreaking works He, She, and We, comes a practical four-step approach to using dreams and the imagination for a journey of inner transformation. In Inner Work, the renowned Jungian analyst offers a powerful and direct way to approach the inner world of the unconscious, often resulting in a central transformative experience. A repackaged classic...

我們本能地逃離陰影，但陰影總會出其不意地一再出現，只為了提醒我們：擁抱陰影才是人生的解方。「陰影」是榮格心理學重要的入門概念，貫串體系，榮格的女弟子馮．法蘭茲甚至大膽疾呼：「陰影就是無意識整體。」那些令我們厭惡、憤恨、忌妒、鄙視的人或特質，就是陰影的躲藏之所。它總是投射在親近的人身上，例如煎熬的親子與伴侶關係，往往反映著我們的陰影議題。但其實，陰影是自我的一部分，更是創造、圓滿自我的活水。要解開心中枷鎖、邁向完整，我們不得不低頭親近一度被自己捨棄的陰影。榮格分析師強森是位優秀的說書人，他在本書中從西方文化、歷史與宗教的觀點切入，由個人、集體與原型三個基本面向，交織日常經驗和文化歷史故事，破解二元對立世俗性觀點的迷思，揭示陰影的神聖價值。強森剖析，在我們的成長過程中，自我如何與原始陰影分離、分離後的傾向（例如英雄崇拜、貶低他人）、壓抑陰影的後果（情緒失控、中年危機、婚姻觸礁甚至戰爭）。強森也告訴讀者如何在生活乃至宗教層面融合自我與陰影。最後，他以曼陀羅與靈光的圖像為例，強調結合對立面的重要性，而擁...