Joy, Inspiration, and Hope

by Verena Kast

Book Overview

Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http: //oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/85766 "Emotion is an expression of the self," Verena Kast writes in this ground-breaking study of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089096470X
• ISBN13: 9780890964705
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

An enriching discussing of 'positive' emotions

Kast is a Zurich-based Jungian analyst, but who has an ability to incorporate material from other psychological and philosopical schools, unlike her more ideological colleagues in the Jungian world. She provides a robust psychological discussion of material that is generally relegated to spirituality. Especially good is the discussion of the shadow side of joy, what she calls "malicious joy". She engages sucessfully ideas from Ernest Bloch and Albert Camus, though her perfunctory Jungian interpretation of the Greek myth of Dionysus is obfuscating and distracting.