This course will discuss some of the psychological processes that underpin various biblical stories. The course is based on Jung’s ideas that “religious statements are psychic confessions” (CW11, para. 555), and “statements made in the Holy Scriptures are also utterances of the soul” (ibid., para. 557). The course will show that some biblical and theological ideas arise from human psychodynamics, often of a narcissistic type, while some originate in the archetypal level of the psyche.

Religious experiences and the theology to which they give rise are products of the psyche. They do not need to be seen as emanating from a metaphysical deity in a transcendent realm. The experience of transcendent reality reported by characters in biblical stories is the result of contact with non-ego, archetypal or transpersonal levels of the psyche, which is the actual source of sacred experience.

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A Depth psychological Approach
ato the Interpretation of

The Bible

and the Religious Traditions
that Arose from It

VIDEO SEMINAR SERIES

with dr. lionel corbett

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6 Sessions
6+ Hours

Dr. Lionel Corbett

The late Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett was a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

He was the author of numerous professional papers and six books: Psyche and the Sacred; The Religious Function of the Psyche; The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a spiritual practice; The Soul in Anguish: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suffering, and Understanding Evil: A Guide for Psychotherapists and his latest: The God-image: From Antiquity to Jung. He was the co-editor of four volumes of collected papers: Psyche’s Stories; Depth Psychology, Meditations in the Field; Psychology at the Threshold;  Jung and Aging.