9 THE SOUL AS A CENTRAL MOTIF IN LITERATURE AND FILM

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. PROLOGUE The Crisis of the Soul in the Twentieth Century xiii
5. PART I The Soul in Its Cultural Setting Between 1870 and 1930
6. 1 NATURE RESEARCH, PSYCHOLOGY, AND OCCULTISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 3
7. 2 FASCINATION WITH THE SOUL IN RELIGION, ART, PHILOSOPHY, AND SCIENCE 27
8. 3 THE MOBILIZATION OF THE SOUL IN POLITICAL AND NATIONALISTIC SETTINGS 53
9. 4 CARL GUSTAV JUNG Psychology as a Comprehensive Empirical Science of the Soul 76
10. 5 OCCULTISM, THE NATURAL SCIENCES, AND SPIRITUALITY BEFORE 1930 95
11. PART II From Europe to America and Back: The Soul Goes Mainstream
12. 6 TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY The Soul’s Cosmic Potential 127
13. 7 THE RENAISSANCE OF NATURPHILOSOPHIE Quantum Mysticism, Cosmic Consciousness, and the Planetary Soul 156
14. 8 THE SOUL AS THE LODESTAR OF NEW SPIRITUAL PRACTICES 172
15. 9 THE SOUL AS A CENTRAL MOTIF IN LITERATURE AND FILM 189
16. 10 ECOLOGICAL MOVEMENTS, SCIENTIFIC AESTHETICS, AND THE SACRALIZATION OF THE EARTH 208
17. EPILOGUE A Cultural Studies Soul Retrieval 241
18. NOTES 247
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 287
20. INDEX 311