Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts)

By James Hollis

Ask yourself, 'When do I feel most real?' What comes up on the screen? All of us have had moments in our lives when we felt whole or wholly present, or experienced a sense of well-being, an intuition of a higher order of reality. Such moments are transitory, alas, and cannot be summoned up by will or mind or right conduct, just as the person who seeks humility finds more and more that pride and one-sidedness push the goal further and further away. - excerpt from Creating A Life This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0919123937
• ISBN13: 9780919123939
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Inner City Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Literate roadmap for life

Hollis always seems to tell me what I already know on some deeper level. And he does it through the beauty of metaphor, literary allusions and cogent observations. Re-reading Kierkegaard, Descartes and Thoreau was enjoyable but the sprinkling of quotes by Lawrence, Yeats, Shakespeare and so many others helps transform Hollis's works into more than a dry tome of psycho-babble too familiar in today's market. Although not a quick...

Spirituality without dogma-- without answers.

My joys consist of reading fiction, listening to music and creating art. None of these fill our need for survival-- they are not necessities. But there is something beyond reason and logic that seems to require my attention. James Hollis's unapologetic use of words like soul, God and spirit is compatible with my intellectual sensitivities. He points the reader to another possibility, another dimension of humanity that we may...

Excellent, self-help book.

I enjoyed this book very much. The content is informative and includes several interesting quotes and poems to help illustrate the messages. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is reevaluating themselves.

Hard questions & no easy answers

As with his previous books, Hollis offers more than just his considerable knowledge: he draws upon his life experience as a human being, with all of its joys and sorrows, as well as the artistic riches of our finest poets & novelists. This is no simple self-help book, with vague, homogenized talking points & feel-good aphorisms. Hollis makes it clear that some of our most pressing & urgent questions may never be fully...

New by James Hollis!

Creating a Life is a powerful commentary on the importance of the examined life, illustrating how we may come to an understanding of our life choices and relationships by exploring our core complexes and personal history. With insight and compassion grounded in the humanist side of analytical psychology, Hollis elucidates the circuitous way of individuation. The text is deeply enrighed by the inclusion of poetry and excerpts...