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Shadows and Illuminations - Literature as Spiritual Journey (Hardcover, New)
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Shadows and Illuminations - Literature as Spiritual Journey (Hardcover, New)
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This book examines literary texts from various genres -- prose
fiction, plays, film -- in order to explore the way dark and
enlightening spiritual journeys are presented in literature.
Combining literary criticism with Jungian approaches, the analysis
focuses on well known religious, spiritual and psychological
writings, with special reference to the work of James Hillman.
Stanley Kubrick's film 'Eyes Wide Shut' and Nathaniel Hawthorne's
classic tale 'Young Goodman Brown', which present uncannily similar
stories, exemplify the book's theme: both are examples of a
"dark-side" narrative. In each case a limited, somewhat naive
protagonist goes out, at night, into the darkness (the streets of
New York in the case of Kubrick's protagonist, the New England
forest in the case of Hawthorne's) and discovers things about
himself and the world that he previously was unaware of. It is a
disturbing discovery of deep imperfection and apparent perversity
-- an encounter with what Jungian psychology dubs "the shadow". But
it is also an experience of what Christian theologian Paul Tillich
calls "depth", which he considers an experience of groundless
mystery that is no less than an encounter with whatever people
refer to when using the word "God". That a discovery of apparent
perversity may be an illuminating experience of the divine is a
paradox that lies at the heart of the mystery of each individual's
"shadow", no longer to be considered as a bundle of repressed
negativity but as a harbinger of growth and soul, a doorway to
spiritual illumination. In Shadows and Illuminations this paradox
of dark-side narratives -- that shadow is illuminative -- is
explored in relation to a variety of classic and contemporary
literary works.
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