Ann Belford Ulanov
Summaries and quotes from Ann Ulanov's books
PRAYER AS PRIMARY SPEECH
Quotes:
If we can let ourselves go in
prayer and speak all that is in our minds and hearts, if we can sit quietly
and bear the silence, we will hear all the bits and pieces of ourselves
crowding in on us, pleading for our attention.
The psychology of prayer we take
up here looks at the issues the psyche faces when we pray. The psyche, the
region of life’s breath and mind, of conscious and unconscious mental
processes, intermingles with my soul’s life, my opening to being where God
speaks softly to us.
Thus our
way to God, to discovering that God is already there with us, can only
proceed in the flesh and through its passions, through our fullest humanity,
what Christ promised as the abundant life.
THE FUNCTIONING TRANSCENDENT by Ann Ulanov
In our daily lives, the Transcendent is often experienced addressing us
through our compulsions, perversions, and ordinary struggles. We find it
touching us through our most shameful problems and bidding us to realize our
most hidden promise.
Jungian analyst Ann Ulanov shows us how the Transcendent appears in her
clinical work, how to work with it in dreams and symptoms, and how it
informs encounters between analyst and analysand. She demonstrates the
spiritual aspect of analysis in her case observations dealing with fatness
and the female, masochistic suffering, parental relationships, follow-up
treatment in patient/ therapist sex, and the resolution of suicidal
temptations.
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