Jung on Ignatius of Loyola¿s Spiritual Exercises

Jung¿s lectures on the psychology of Jesuit spiritual practice¿unabridged in English for the first time

Between 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from yoga and meditation to dream analysis and the psychology of alchemy. Here for the first time are Jung¿s complete lectures on Ignatius of Loyola¿s Spiritual Exercises, delivered in the winter of 1939¿1940.

These illuminating lectures are the culmination of Jung¿s investigation into traditional forms of meditation and their parallels to his psychotherapeutic method of active imagination. Jung presents Loyola¿s exercises as the prime example of a Christian practice comparable to yoga and Eastern meditation, and gives a psychological interpretation of the visions depicted in the saint¿s autobiographical writings. Offering a unique opportun