Luis Moris & Murray Stein, Editors

Confronting Death

426 pages, ISBN 978-1-68503-501-3, Chiron

The essays collected for this book demonstrate how Jungian analysts and scholars find Jung`s concepts useful companions when confronting death. The authors courageously share intimate experiences and memories about the end of life. These are precious and helpful essays about the one thing that we will all certainly experience: death.

Luis Moris is a Jungian analyst and lecturer at the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP-Zurich), and founder of Blue Salamandra. He is the editor of A Jungian Legacy, Tom Kirsch (Chiron Publications, 2019). He is currently doing a PhD at the University of Essex, UK, titled Life After Death in the Work and Life of C.G. Jung. He lives and has a private practice in Zurich.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – Jung’s Confrontation with Death: An Introduction – Luis Moris

Chapter 2 – Light in the Shadow of Death – Murray Stein

Chapter 3 – The Ever-Moving Caravan: Reflections on Aging, Dying, and Death – Susan Olson

Chapter 4 – Death Cafés – Ann Casement

Chapter 5 – Accompanied Through the Resonant Field of Grief and Healing – Claire Costello

Chapter 6 – Re-enchanting the Realm of Death – Joseph Cambray

Chapter 7 – Barbie’s Question -Stephani Stephens

Chapter 8 – Living and Dying – Ann Ulanov

Chapter 9 – “I Don’t Permit the Winter”: Death and Life in Goethe — and Jung – Paul Bishop

Chapter 10 – Death’s Cartography : “Ours is a flame but borrow’ d thence to light us thither” – Josephine Evetts-Secker

Chapter 11 – My Appointment with Death – Ursula Wirtz

Chapter 12 – Experience of Death from the Viewpoint of Modern Japanese Buddhism – Haruko Kuwabara

Chapter 13 – How I Confronted Death and How Death Confronted Me – Henry Abramovitch

Chapter 14 – Love, Death, and The Infernal Machine – Ladson Hinton

Chapter 15 – Taking the Anima Along – John Beebe

About the Contributors