Striving Towards Wholeness
Striving Towards Wholeness by Barbara Hannah, published by Chiron Publications on January 15, 2001, is a comprehensive exploration of the psychic processes that drive individuals to achieve a complete personality integration. This 330-page work delves into the lives and literary contributions of five prominent English novelists—Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Webb, and the Brontë sisters—alongside the nonliterary artist Branwell Brontë. Hannah examines how these creative figures exemplify the quest for wholeness, offering insights into their experiences and the broader implications for understanding analytical psychology.
In this edition, readers will find a detailed analysis that not only sheds new light on the selected authors but also expands the concepts of analytical psychology. Hannah illustrates how contemporary individuals can draw inspiration from these historical examples in their own journeys toward personal growth and healing. The book engages with themes of creativity and the psychological movements associated with Jungian thought, making it a valuable resource for those interested in psychology, inspiration, and personal development.
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Barbara Hannah studies the psychic processes that move people to strive for wholeness of personality, an integration of all innate capacities. Since this inner drama manifests itself with special intensity in the lives of creative individuals, she has taken up the biographies and literary productions of five major English novelists–Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Webb, and Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte–along with one nonliterary artist–Branwell Bronte.
Not only do Stevenson, Webb, and the four Brontes take on fresh, unsuspected dimensions, but the concepts of analytical psychology are also broadened and deepened as Barbara Hannah indicates how contemporary people may gain insight from these examples in their own efforts to strive towards wholeness.
Barbara Hannah (1891-1986) was born in England. She went to Zürich in 1929 to study with Carl Jung and lived in Switzerland the rest of her life. A close associate of Jung until his death, she was a practicing psychotherapist and lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute. Her books available from Chiron include The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals; Encounters with the Soul; Jung, His Life and Work: A Biographical Memoir; and Striving Toward Wholeness.
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