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I saw the rays that they made like the rays of a stream inward from a many pointed star or the onvergingof the lines of a many-sided crystal, but these rays were not of light but of darkness, and the darkness seemedto draw all things into it. Thus I knew that they were weaving a great void that had no shape no form norboundaries. (Wickes, 1950, p. 245)

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Agosin, T. (1992). Psychosis, dreams and mysticism in the clinical domain. In F. Halligan & Shea (Eds.), The fires ofdesire. New York: Crossroad.

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From the EditorKathryn Madden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

In Memoriam: James Hillman—1926-­‐2011John Beebe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

In Memoriam: Mario Jacoby—1925-­‐2011Murray Stein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

quadrant’s author is awarded NAAP's Gradiva® AwardKathryn Madden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Jung, Florensky, and Dreams: Three Levels of InterpretationByron J. Gaist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Parallels in C.G. Jung and Eastern ChristianityTyler Dudley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Kensho: The Mirror of Self-­‐ReflectionFanny Brewster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Poetry: “Canaan,” “Elegy for John Muir”Bruce Bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

ArtBrent Weston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Film Reviews: A Dangerous MethodReviews by Jay Sherry and Ilona Melker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Book Reviews:Beth Darlington, Review EditorReviews by Sanford Drob and Richard Reeve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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Jung’s Word Association Test and Complex TheoryJane Selinske

Dreams and SpiritualityFanny Brewster

Archetypal Psychology: FoundationsSylvester Wojtkowski

Reading Jung TogetherDavid Rottman

Searching for Identity: The Caretaker ComplexIrina Doctoroff

Hillmaniana: ExplorationsSylvester Wojtkowski

Beyond Words: Self-Discovery through Journaling in ImagesBarbara Barry

Jungian Dream WorkHarry Fogarty

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From the Editor . . .

Before I introduce the thematic content of this issue, I must, first and foremost,

express the profound loss that so many of us are experiencing over the passing of two

great figures in the history of Jungian analysis and Jungian studies: Mario Jacoby and

James Hillman. Beyond their substantial contributions to the field of depth psychology,

they leave a plethora of memories for those who have encountered them personally.

John Beebe and Murray Stein have graciously offered In Memoriams. We will run

longer articles of tribute in future issues.

We are pleased to present this issue of Quadrant with articles that explore the

relationship of Jungian psychology to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and to Zen Bud-

dhism, as well as to a fuller understanding of art and contemporary secular mythol-

ogy. If the image is the language of the dream and mythology is the dream of the

collective psyche, then we would expect to find image and symbol complement-

ing the mythological stories that undergird a culture, a nation or a civilization.

In “Jung, Florensky, and Dreams,” Byron Gaist explores the work of Pavel Flo-

rensky, a 20th century Russian Orthodox priest who wrote provocatively about the

imagery of dreams in Iconostasis. The word iconostasis means, literally, a “wall of icons”

or an “icon stand.” The word icon (or eikon from the Greek) means “image” in the

Eastern Orthodox Church. But it refers to a specific type of image of a religious figure

or scene. This image is meant not just to “portray” the figure or scene as would a pho-

tograph, but is believed to participate in the essence of that figure or scene in a way

that helps the worshipper to access that essence by gazing prayerfully upon the

icon. Gaist relates Jung’s own experience with deeply meaningful images during his

Nek’ia or “dark night of the soul.” He says that Jung “spoke to Philemon as though

he were real, not an hallucination . . . [and] . . . saw him as an archetypal image of

the spirit.” He further states that “[d]reams are created by the imagination . . . and .

. . [t]hat the imaginal aspect of the soul is located by the Church fathers between the

nous and the senses.” If, as Florensky states, “life in the visible world alternates with

life in the invisible,” then the icon and the dream act to give us access to that which

cannot be seen with our waking eyes.

Tyler (Silouan) Dudley, in a related article entitled “Parallels in C.G. Jung and

Eastern Christianity,” adds to the discussion of the icon making visible the invis-

ible by exploring what is known in the Eastern Church as the “Taborian light.” This

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is the so-called “uncreated light” that “shown forth at Christ’s Transfiguration” on

Mt. Tabor. Dudley draws a distinction between image and likeness, saying that “[t]he

Image of God is like a stamp that we are literally imprinted with that is inde-

structible, no matter how corrupted it may become. The Likeness is the potential

that lies in the Image that one seeks to live into in life.” So the image is what we

are given at birth. It is our inheritance. Living in the likeness of God requires an

action in response to having been given such a gift and “can be seen to have con-

nections to the Jungian idea of how the archetype is realized in human life.”

In “Kensho: The Mirror of Self-Reflection,” Fanny Brewster examines the

Japanese symbol of “the mirror.” The word Kensho means “seeing into one’s own

nature.” Brewster tells us that the mirror is a symbol with great significance to Japan-

ese culture as reflected in its mythology. As the Buddha teaches that the mirror is

a tool for penetrating through the externals to the true self, so too is analytical psy-

chology a process of self-reflection in order to achieve individuation. Brewster’s state-

ment that “The rigors of learning to identify persona without being over-identified

with it and the ability to continuously gaze into the dark, seeking one’s shadow, is

akin to looking in the mirror,” is equally applicable to the Buddhist quest for enlight-

enment and depth psychology’s process of aligning the Ego with the Self.

Our Distinguished Poet, 2011, Bruce Bond, in his offerings of the poems

“Canaan,” and “John Muir,” once again leaves us reflecting into the depths and the

many resonances that substantial poetry can evoke in a reader. Their themes are

intentional threads of the tapestry of the articles in this issue. I hope that our read-

ers will read them more than once and allow them to evoke their multi-layers of

being.

Quadrant’s Distinguished Artist, Brent Weston, offers a sampling of his

paintings, which are contextualized in the online and downloadable supplement

to Quadrant in the article, “Desire, Spirit, and Inner Conversation.”

Speaking of distinguished authors, we are very pleased to announce that author

Laurence de Rosen, won the prestigious Gradiva award for her article “Memory

of a Trainee: The Birth in the Fall” published in Quadrant, Vol. 40: 1, Winter, 2010.

The award is sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Psy-

choanalysis and was presented at a special ceremony at NAAP’s 2011 Annual Con-

ference. We have run a sampling of photos in this issue of this event.

We hope that you will enjoy our reviews of the controversial movie The

Dangerous Method; and also, please welcome another new member to our editor-

ial advisory board, Alexandra Fidyk, whose biographical notes are included in

this issue.

*Please note the following material is found only in the online and downloadable sup-plement to Quadrant:

In “Desire, Spirit, and Inner Conversation,” * Kathryn Madden presents the

work of the journal’s 2011 Distinguished Artist, Brent Weston along with reflec-

tions on desire, image, and dreams. Weston’s work is vivid, both in color and in image,

and sometimes disquieting. At times we see recognizable images with which we

think we can identify, as in Blue Bovine at Neuschwanstein or Italian Quasar. At other

times, the image is more abstract as in the mandala Blue and Center or The Broken

Whole. Jung says that “there is only one blueprint that is you,” and it is our “inten-

tional dialogue between the conscious and unconscious dimensions of the psyche

(that) make a considerable difference in (our) community and in the world.” It is

important to learn around what images our “desire cluster[s].” What is it that we

wish for or, following Tillich, is of ultimate concern to us? Our desire may lead us

to psychological inflation if it falls on the wrong object. Or it may fall on too small

an object “like addictions . . . or . . . rigid dogmas.” Rather, our images (like those

experienced by Jung during his Nekyia and seen in the recently published Red Book)

can “involve a real exploration.” Weston’s diverse and probing work is such an explo-

ration.

Finally, Richard Marranca, in “Myth and Mythmaking in America: Cultural

Implications,” * looks at the specific cultural myths unique to America, such as the

“city upon a hill,” the “American dream,” “manifest destiny,” the “cowboy,” and those

images that are produced annually from the Hollywood mythmaking machine.

These and other images illustrate the various storylines that have comprised Amer-

ica from its beginnings to the present day. “Each of us has a vision,” Marranca says,

“blending into a colossal vision.” Significant is his reminder that Jung asks of us

“what myth we are living” and that it is important to realize this on “both the per-

sonal and collective scale.”

Kathryn Madden, Editor-in-Chief

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