Autour de Jung. Le bouddhisme et la Sophia

Henry Corbin met Jung on numerous occasions during gatherings in Ascona, in the Italian region of Switzerland, during the meetings of the leading world specialists on religious experience, such as Mircea Eliade, Hermann Hesse, Gilbert Durand, Gershom Scholem... He wrote a number of texts on Jung’s relationship with Buddhist thought as well as the aspects of Sophia in his work. These are the previously unseen texts included in this work published under the guidance of Michel Cazenave and Daniel Proulx. In the first part, Henry Corbin studies the points shared by the processes of individuation and Zen Buddhism. He offers us reflections throughout the essay by Jung on the psychology of oriental meditation. He then turns to the Tibetan book of the dead, a book which was never far from Jung’s bedside table, and which the psychologist discusses in his work “Commentary on the Secret of the Golden Flower”. The second part is dedicated to Eternal Sophia, or divine wisdom, and enables a better understanding of Jung’s “Answer to Job”, which drew a number of hostile responses. Together, these texts enable an alternative reading of Jung which, it seems, will remain essential in the future. 

• Jung et le bouddhisme : Le Zen (sur Le Livre de la grande délivrance) - La Terre pure (sur La Psychologie de la méditation orientale) - Le livre des morts tibétain (sur le Bardo Thödol) - L'Alchimie taoïste (sur Le Secret de la Fleur d'or) - Conclusion : Le Soi et la Sophia.
• Réponse à Job (la Sophia) : La Sophia éternelle - Postface à Réponse à Job.
• Annexes : Lettres à Mme Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn - Sophia Aeterna - Eranos.