To Infinity and Beyond

ABSTRACT

This review of the book The Psychoid, Soul and Psyche discusses author Ann Ulanov’s interweaving of Jung’s conceptualization of the psychoid level of the unconscious with both clinical and theological ideas. Central to this discussion is the idea that at significant moments in life and in analysis, we enter into a new mode of knowing that involves the shedding of all prior experience and points of reference. This transformative and impactful realm of experience is interrelated to religious ideas about the nature of God and the ways we humans can never fully know or comprehend God’s nature, nor our own wholeness.

KEY WORDS:

• analytic psychology
• Anima Mundi
• coincidence of opposites
• individuation
• God, C. G. Jung
• Donald Kalsched
• Samuel Kimbles
• matrix
• Nicholas of Cusa
• psychoid
• The Red Book, Self
• theology
• Ann Ulanov
• unconscious
• unus mundus

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Naomi Azriel

NAOMI AZRIEL, LMFT, is a depth psychotherapist in private practice in Oakland, California, and an advanced analytic candidate at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She works with adults and children, with special interests in sexual, spiritual, ancestral, and cultural trauma. She has lectured and taught on the use of self in working with sexual trauma, queer sexuality, and sex-workers. Correspondence: 4287 Piedmont Avenue, Suite 108, Oakland, CA 94611, USA. Email: [email protected].