The Transcendent Function: Jung's Model of Psychological Growth through Dialogue with the Unconscious

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many have contributed to this book. I owe a great debt of gratitude to Robert Romanyshyn, Ph.D., whose powerful writings and teachings about the significance of metaphor in psychological life, alchemical thinking, the neither/ nor urge of the psyche, and the detrimental aspects of science and technology, all more fully explored in the book, formed a foundation upon which important synthesizing concepts in the later parts of the book were built. I also thank Michael Geis, M.D., who introduced me to the transcendent function essay; and to Glen Slater, Ph.D., who helped fashion the early structure of the project. Much of my ultimate thinking and synthesis was made possible through discussion with my dear friend, Joe Belichick. I also acknowledge Maria Chiaia, Ph.D., Patricia Speier, M.D., Pilar Montero, Ph.D., Randy Charlton, M.D., John Beebe, M.D., Michael Horne, M.D., and Thomas Kirsch, M.D., for their time and feedback during the creation of this work. Most important, I could not have given this work the passion and commitment I did without the love and patience of my wife, Kathleen, with whom I try to live the transcendent function every day. Grateful acknowledgment is also given to the Estate of C. G. Jung and to Derek George Hunter, Nigel J. Hunter, and Richard Michael Hunter, the surviving heirs to A. R. Pope, for the copyright permission to use Pope’s English translation of the 1916 version of Jung’s essay “The Transcendent Function” published in pamphlet format in 1957 in Appendix A. Finally, thanks to Princeton University Press and Taylor & Francis for the copyright permission to use R.F.C. Hull’s translation of the 1958 version of “The Transcendent Function,” published in 1960 in volume 8 of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. xiii ...