next year's reading list

Hello All,

A ritual of mine after doing our Mercy weekend is to get lost in as many used bookstores as I can find. I am open to surprises and especially looking for what may pop out for next year’s topic. What you get for the weekend is a “long (i.e. year long, at least) meditation” on the subject that we have chosen.

In my bookstore haunts, I was overwhelmed with so much good material available. I allowed myself to look outside Jung’s circle. One volume that I found that looks particularly promising is John Wall’s Moral Creativity: Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility.

I would encourage everyone to start reading now. The titles listed below are “for sure” items, but indulge yourself a bit over the upcoming year and feel free to explore this very rich area of inquiry, “The Moral Question in the Individuation Process.” The “blog” may be a good place to share with others some of what you find along the way.

These are the readings you can count on...

Hillman, James. “The Feeling Function,” in Jung’s Typology.

Jung, C.G. “A Psychological View of Conscience,” in CW 10.

**Jung’s piece is also in an anthology that may well be worth your while: Conscience, James Hillman, ed. You may be able to find a used copy on abebooks.com.

Neumann, Erich. Depth Psychology and the New Ethic.

Nietzsche, F. Beyond Good and Evil.

Robinson, D. Conscience and Jung’s Moral Vision.

Spoto, A. “The Inferior Function as a Moral Issue,” in Jung’s Typology in Perspective.

Stein, M. Solar Conscience/Lunar Conscience

Von Franz, M-L. “Jung’s Rehabilitation of the Feeling Function in Our Civilization,” (unpublished essay to be privately circulated to the group)

Blessings,

Angelo