Eranos Yearbook 70 2009/20102011 Eranos Foundation 9783856307509 Books
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The 70th volume of the Eranos Yearbooks presents the work of the last three years of activities at the Eranos Foundation (2009-2011). It includes the papers given on the theme of the 2011 conference, About Fragility in the Contemporary World, together with talks given on the occasion of the seminar cycle entitled, Eranos Jung Lectures, which took place during the years 2010-2011 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Carl Gustav Jung s passing. Eminent international scholars gathered to share their work, presented here primarily in English, along with some chapters in Italian. This publication carries additional special meaning in further consolidating the collaboration with the Fetzer Institute by presenting the manuscripts of the Dialogues on the Power of Love, held at Eranos between 2008 and 2011. This project follows the path of the original model of Eranos, especially the aspect of dialogue, searching for understanding and deepening crucial themes in the contemporary world.
Eranos Yearbook 70 2009/20102011 Eranos Foundation 9783856307509 Books
This is a very pleasurable book to hold, the dust jacket is ridged, it is a hardcover book 818 pages in length. It is a bilingual edition with 41 of essays, 14 of which are in Italian and the remainder in English. The essays are from the proceedings of the Eranos lectures over this period of time, given under the following themes: About Fragility in the Contemporary World (6 of the 9 in Italian); The Power of Love; Love in the History or Eranos; Love and Beauty in the Visual Arts; Love and the Social Bond; Love and the Musical Arts; and Presentations of the Eranos-Jung Lectures (these last all in Italian).For those unfamiliar with Eranos, please refer to Thomas Hakl’s excellent book, Eranos: An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. The 2009-2011 Yearbook has an essay that gives a short history of Eranos and looks at Olga Fröbe’s labor of love to create and sustain this interdisciplinary meeting place. She viewed her role as, “I am not the teacher, but merely prepare and set the stage where the essence will unfold,” (cited in Giovanni Sorge’s essay, “Love as Devotion: Olga-Fröbe-Kapteyn’s Relationship with Eranos and Jungian Psychology,” 389).
There are a wide range of very interesting essays in this book, just to give a flavor, I’ll mention some of my favorite. Ursula King’s essay, “The Inexhaustible Energies of Love,” explores scholar Annemarie Schimmel’s work on mystical love in Islam and links this in with King’s interest in the work of Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on cosmic, human, and divine love. King concludes that, “At this evolutionary juncture of the human species we are all called to awaken to a new kind of love, a love that is not a feeling, but a great power for the transformation of the world and ourselves,” (385).
Thomas Kasulis’ “From the Love of Wisdom to the Wisdom of Love: Re-envisioning Our Philosophical Foundations of Interrelationship,” contrasts an “integrity model of relationship” (in which the self is separate and boundered from interrelationship) with an “intimacy model of relationship” (in which there is a union of selves which can be transformative). Kasulis is a Buddhist scholar and writes from that perspective, but also links the intimacy model of love with Christianity as well. He writes, “Love is not, as in an external relation, extended to another, but rather, it is discovered in the already existing ontology of what I really am, a being interlinked and not separable (at least without loss) from everyone and everything else,” (513). This view was particularly important to me as I have written some about love in my upcoming book, Re-humanizing Medicine, and I think I actually got it wrong in the book when I read Kasulis. Kasulis’s view of love reminds me of the work of Henry Corbin, particularly in regard to his view that we can only experience in love or spirituality what we have already made ourselves, internally capable of. In this way, love is a recognition of the underlying unity of reality, rather than an ego choice to extend something for another. Just briefly, I will also mention that this might be important in regards to the concept of “physician burnout,” for if love and compassion are extended from a boundered and separate ego, the clinician can get depleted, whereas if love and compassion are an expression of one’s (and reality’s) inner essence, then interrelationship is an inexhaustible source of love. Kasulis writes, “the proverb quoted by Jesus, ‘Physician, heal thyself’, assumes a new significance: there is no real healing unless the self and other heal together. Love is treating the other as oneself,” (517).
A slightly different approach to the topic of love is found in the lectures on “Love and the Musical Arts,” from August 2011. Guy L. Beck’s, “Ragas of Love: Devotional Music in the Hindu Tradition,” give a good introduction to the relationship between music and the sacred in Hinduism, but which can apply to all music as well. Beck writes, “The term Nada-Brahman hence refers to sacred sound that may be either unmanifest (Anahata, ‘unstruck’, existing in the divine realm) or manifest (Ahata, ‘struck’, existing in the human realm), as well as providing an invisible thread binding the two dimensions,” (579-580). Rokus de Groot wrote an interesting essay exploring the various elements of love in music, called “Polyphonies of Love,” which concludes with “All this taken together, has made me suggest that music itself is a gift of love, by being composed as it is, and by composing us,” (624). Regula Burckhardt Qureshi’s essay, “Sufi Encounters with Music and Love,” examines the crucial role of music in Sufism. She quotes various Sufi writers on music, “It makes what is in the heart already more intense. It becomes a vehicle for the journey of the soul to God. It flies like a bird and it strengthens the soul’s wings. Or it can sink like a rock inside you toward the world of human passion. Another dualism is articulated here, between divine and human attraction,” (644).
Hopefully this gives a brief idea of the breadth of the essays presented in this book, examining the topic of love from psychological, spiritual, musical, philosophical, historical and social perspectives. Eranos has always been interdisciplinary and always has had a strong Jungian influence from its beginning. The book has a list of all lectures given at Eranos from 1933-2011, which is quite helpful to have and I missed this in Hakl’s book on Eranos. It is interesting to see Jung’s continued influence on Eranos as he only gave 14 presentations, whereas Henry Corbin gave 27. I, personally, found myself extremely interested in some of the essays and others not so much, however, there are so many essays in this book that a student of Jung, spirituality, creativity, personal or social transformation will find a number of gems in this book. If you can read Italian (which I cannot), you would have even more choices - actually, Jean-Jacques Wunenberger’s essay appears to be in French. Even if you cannot read other languages than English, these other essays add to the aesthetic appeal of the book and the inexhaustibility (rather than the fragility) of love.
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Eranos Yearbook 70 2009/20102011 Eranos Foundation 9783856307509 Books Reviews
This is a very pleasurable book to hold, the dust jacket is ridged, it is a hardcover book 818 pages in length. It is a bilingual edition with 41 of essays, 14 of which are in Italian and the remainder in English. The essays are from the proceedings of the Eranos lectures over this period of time, given under the following themes About Fragility in the Contemporary World (6 of the 9 in Italian); The Power of Love; Love in the History or Eranos; Love and Beauty in the Visual Arts; Love and the Social Bond; Love and the Musical Arts; and Presentations of the Eranos-Jung Lectures (these last all in Italian).
For those unfamiliar with Eranos, please refer to Thomas Hakl’s excellent book, Eranos An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. The 2009-2011 Yearbook has an essay that gives a short history of Eranos and looks at Olga Fröbe’s labor of love to create and sustain this interdisciplinary meeting place. She viewed her role as, “I am not the teacher, but merely prepare and set the stage where the essence will unfold,” (cited in Giovanni Sorge’s essay, “Love as Devotion Olga-Fröbe-Kapteyn’s Relationship with Eranos and Jungian Psychology,” 389).
There are a wide range of very interesting essays in this book, just to give a flavor, I’ll mention some of my favorite. Ursula King’s essay, “The Inexhaustible Energies of Love,” explores scholar Annemarie Schimmel’s work on mystical love in Islam and links this in with King’s interest in the work of Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on cosmic, human, and divine love. King concludes that, “At this evolutionary juncture of the human species we are all called to awaken to a new kind of love, a love that is not a feeling, but a great power for the transformation of the world and ourselves,” (385).
Thomas Kasulis’ “From the Love of Wisdom to the Wisdom of Love Re-envisioning Our Philosophical Foundations of Interrelationship,” contrasts an “integrity model of relationship” (in which the self is separate and boundered from interrelationship) with an “intimacy model of relationship” (in which there is a union of selves which can be transformative). Kasulis is a Buddhist scholar and writes from that perspective, but also links the intimacy model of love with Christianity as well. He writes, “Love is not, as in an external relation, extended to another, but rather, it is discovered in the already existing ontology of what I really am, a being interlinked and not separable (at least without loss) from everyone and everything else,” (513). This view was particularly important to me as I have written some about love in my upcoming book, Re-humanizing Medicine, and I think I actually got it wrong in the book when I read Kasulis. Kasulis’s view of love reminds me of the work of Henry Corbin, particularly in regard to his view that we can only experience in love or spirituality what we have already made ourselves, internally capable of. In this way, love is a recognition of the underlying unity of reality, rather than an ego choice to extend something for another. Just briefly, I will also mention that this might be important in regards to the concept of “physician burnout,” for if love and compassion are extended from a boundered and separate ego, the clinician can get depleted, whereas if love and compassion are an expression of one’s (and reality’s) inner essence, then interrelationship is an inexhaustible source of love. Kasulis writes, “the proverb quoted by Jesus, ‘Physician, heal thyself’, assumes a new significance there is no real healing unless the self and other heal together. Love is treating the other as oneself,” (517).
A slightly different approach to the topic of love is found in the lectures on “Love and the Musical Arts,” from August 2011. Guy L. Beck’s, “Ragas of Love Devotional Music in the Hindu Tradition,” give a good introduction to the relationship between music and the sacred in Hinduism, but which can apply to all music as well. Beck writes, “The term Nada-Brahman hence refers to sacred sound that may be either unmanifest (Anahata, ‘unstruck’, existing in the divine realm) or manifest (Ahata, ‘struck’, existing in the human realm), as well as providing an invisible thread binding the two dimensions,” (579-580). Rokus de Groot wrote an interesting essay exploring the various elements of love in music, called “Polyphonies of Love,” which concludes with “All this taken together, has made me suggest that music itself is a gift of love, by being composed as it is, and by composing us,” (624). Regula Burckhardt Qureshi’s essay, “Sufi Encounters with Music and Love,” examines the crucial role of music in Sufism. She quotes various Sufi writers on music, “It makes what is in the heart already more intense. It becomes a vehicle for the journey of the soul to God. It flies like a bird and it strengthens the soul’s wings. Or it can sink like a rock inside you toward the world of human passion. Another dualism is articulated here, between divine and human attraction,” (644).
Hopefully this gives a brief idea of the breadth of the essays presented in this book, examining the topic of love from psychological, spiritual, musical, philosophical, historical and social perspectives. Eranos has always been interdisciplinary and always has had a strong Jungian influence from its beginning. The book has a list of all lectures given at Eranos from 1933-2011, which is quite helpful to have and I missed this in Hakl’s book on Eranos. It is interesting to see Jung’s continued influence on Eranos as he only gave 14 presentations, whereas Henry Corbin gave 27. I, personally, found myself extremely interested in some of the essays and others not so much, however, there are so many essays in this book that a student of Jung, spirituality, creativity, personal or social transformation will find a number of gems in this book. If you can read Italian (which I cannot), you would have even more choices - actually, Jean-Jacques Wunenberger’s essay appears to be in French. Even if you cannot read other languages than English, these other essays add to the aesthetic appeal of the book and the inexhaustibility (rather than the fragility) of love.
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