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This volume makes publicly available for the first time the original text of the pioneering research monograph Dr. Moore first presented in 1986 to the Jung Institute of Chicago entitled, "The Liminal and the Liminoid in Ritual Process and Analytical Practice." A new essay outlines the steps in his "research journey" that led to his "rediscovering transformative space."
This work has its roots in an intellectual lineage that includes such theorists as Adolf Bastian (1826-1905), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), Carl Jung (1875-1961), Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), Erik Erikson (1902-94), Joseph Campbell (1904-87), Mircea Eliade (1907-86), Ludwig von Bartalanffy, Victor Turner (1920-83), Edward Edinger (1922-98), Joseph Henderson, Toni Wolff (1888-1953), Edward Whitmont, Anthony Stevens, Theodore Millon, and many others. These theorists collectively represent an intellectual tradition that recognizes the fundamental unity-in-diversity of the human species.
The research described in this report rests on a few fundamental assumptions that challenge the current intellectual climate while continuing the intellectual tradition of the psychic unity of humanity. According to these assumptions, (1) the human psyche is structured, (2) most of the basic structure is species-wide (a collective unconscious underlies both the personal and cultural unconscious), (3) this structure influences basic behavior patterns, including those of ritual processes and the mythic imagination, (4) the morphogenic potential of this structure requires cultural support for its mature evocation and integration in human selfhood and society, (5) the structures can be scientifically studied with interdisciplinary cooperation, and (6) continuing ignorance or denial of these structures and their importance, however rationalized, has many social, political, ethical, and spiritual dangers.
Humans need to participate in mythological narratives and ritual enactment to gain adequate containment for the archaic numinous libidinal energies natural to the deep self that everyone struggles to locate, regulate, and channel adequately in a life-enhancing manner. The enormous tendency of modern culture to be "ritually tone-deaf" causes many to act out these biopsychological imperatives in pseudo-ritualizations. This means the modern world has much to relearn from tribal cultures and update for species-wide purposes today. It will take the cooperative efforts of many related groups to reconnect humanity to its ancient sources of containment and empowerment in a post-tribal, postmodern reappropriation. This little monograph is offered as a contribution toward that important goal.
Product Details
- Paperback: 120 pages ; Dimensions (in inches) 0.28 x 8.50 x 5.50
- Hard Cover: 120 pages ; Dimensions (in inches) 0.40 x 8.50 x 5.50
- Publisher: Xlibris Corporation, July 2002
- Paperback ISBN: 1401023576
- Hard Cover ISBN: 1401023584
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