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Greeting the Angels: An Imaginal View of the Mourning Process
Baywood Publishing Co., Amityville NY, 1992, pp. 171.
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This book, written in the genre of Imaginal Psychology, presents the imaginal dimension of the mourning process. The "angels" it greets are the interior figures who greet the bereaved during the course of their mourning process. In memory, reverie, and dream, the images of the dead return to heal and to be healed. As the bereaved enter into relationship with these images, the grief in which they are sequestered is particularized and individualized into the precise nuances of significance which makes mourning possible. As the imagoes of the dead teach the bereaved how to mourn them, they are simultaneously woven into the fabric of what it means to be human. In elucidating these and other themes the author, a practicing Jungian analyst, draws upon dreams, biographical fragments, poetry, psychoanalysis, and Jungian thought. The style is at once expository and evocative, appealing to both the head and the heart.