Intimacy: Venturing the Uncertainties of the Heart

Jungian Odyssey Series, Vol. 1
by Isabelle Meier, Stacy Wirth, and John Hill, Editors
ISBN: 978-1-882670-84-0; 1882670841
225 pp.
Available March 15th

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This collection of essays is the first publication to ensue from the Jungian Odyssey, which began in 2006 and developed into an annual conference and retreat in Switzerland. The authors are Jungian training analysts and faculty members at ISAPZURICH, joined by guest scholars, all of whom lectured at the Jungian Odyssey 2008.

Addressing a broad audience and adopting a variety of approaches, the authors link intimacy to love and hate, home and homesickness, belonging and yearning to belong, Eros and transcendence, the known and unknown—and even to the encounter with the divine. Rather than seeking definitive answers or cures, the authors circumambulate the many guises of the heart and ways in which intimacy and uncertainty enter our lives.

INTIMACY: VENTURING THE UNCERTAINTIES OF THE HEART
Note from the Publisher :: Nancy Cater
Foreword :: Murray Stein
Introduction :: Isabelle Meier, Stacy Wirth, John Hill

SOUNDS AND SYMMETRIES OF BELONGING
The Ear of the Heart: Weaving a Tapestry of Transformative Listening in Song and Story :: Noirin NiRiain
Paul Klee and the Symbol of the Mountain: On the Uncertainties of Human Existence :: Paul Brutsche
Home: The Making or Breaking of the Heart :: John Hill

RADICAL BODY - MOTHER AND CHILD
From Linguistic Intimacy to Sense of Self :: Raffaella Colombo
Hephaistos, Born With Club-Feet—Lame and Ugly: The Intimate Relationship Between Hephaistos and His Mother in the Mirror of Our Time :: Kathrin Asper

EROTIC POWER AND THE HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER
Yearning to Be Known: Individuation and the Broken Wings of Eros :: Ursula Wirtz
Intimacy and the Arrows of Eros :: Mario Jacoby
Love: Our Most Cherished Anarchist—or Path to Failure :: Allan Guggenbühl
Love, Hate, Intimacy and Estrangement: Patterns and Pathologies in Human Relations :: Urs Mehlin
What is Wrong with Anima/Animus? Exploring the Uncertainties of Inner and Outer Relationship :: Deborah Egger-Biniores

UNCERTAIN HEART - UNBOUNDED HEART
When You Venture There, Uncertainties and Mysteries Abound :: Murray Stein
Initiatory Knowing: Reflections on the Lives of Simone Weil and C.G. Jung :: Thomas Kapacinskas
Rumi: Poet of the Heart :: Dariane Pictet
Eros in Islam: A Glance at Ibn Arabi’s Tarjuman Al-Ashwaq (Interpreter of Desires) :: Bernard Sartorius

EPILOGUE :: John Hill