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Sex As Symbol: The Ancient Light in Modern Psychology

Sex As Symbol: The Ancient Light in Modern Psychology

Kuhn, Alvin Boyd

Hardcover

Ancient History GeneralFiction AnthologiesGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1161350659
ISBN13: 9781161350654
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: May 23 2010
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.81
Height: 0.81 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Sex As Symbol: The Ancient Light in Modern Psychology by Alvin Boyd Kuhn is a book that explores the symbolism of sex in ancient cultures and how it has been interpreted in modern psychology. The author argues that sex has been used as a symbol for spiritual transformation and enlightenment in ancient cultures, and that this symbolism has been lost in modern times. Kuhn examines the symbolism of sex in various ancient cultures, including Egypt, India, and Greece, and shows how it was used as a metaphor for the journey of the soul towards enlightenment. He then explores how this symbolism has been interpreted in modern psychology, particularly in the work of Carl Jung. The book also discusses the ways in which modern society has distorted the symbolism of sex, reducing it to a mere physical act and obscuring its deeper spiritual meaning. Kuhn argues that by reclaiming the ancient symbolism of sex, we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and our place in the world. Overall, Sex As Symbol is a thought-provoking and insightful book that offers a unique perspective on the symbolism of sex and its relevance to modern psychology and spirituality.The prominence of phallic symbols in high ancient religious systems has never before been understood, much less sanely expounded and vindicated as something transcending gross sensualism. It is not too much to assert that in this work sex is given its truly lofty place and rated at its exalted character for the first time in religious literature. For not only is sex revealed as the truest key-symbol of the supreme significance of human life itself, but it is brilliantly analyzed as to its place and function in the individual human's program of evolution, his sanity, balance, mental health and happiness. If it is possible for one book to lift sex from low and base regard to a veritable pinnacle of purity and nobility in the light of its true character, this book will do it. Partial Contents: Bright Lexicon of Deity; Drama Bears Misshapen Offspring; And God Spake Unto Moses; The God's Distribute Divinity; Lost Data of Anthropology; Two Subterranean Grottoes; In Pluto's Dark Realm; The Two Mothers of the Christ; Immanuel's Lamp; Child is Father of the Man; Language of Lingham and Yoni; Phallicism Transfigured; Love and Hate; Love Looks Beyond Death; Romance in the Trysting-Tent; Phoenix Lives Again; Oil of Gladness; My Cup Runneth Over.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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