Dreams Death Rebirth

Our greatest certainty and greatest mystery is our mortality. In this book Steven M. Rosen explores the profound mystery of death and rebirth from psychological philosophical and alchemical perspectives. To model embody and contain the paradoxical transformations involved in the death-rebirth enigma Rosen employs a paradoxical form of mathematics: the topology of the Moebius strip and Klein bottle. As we follow this alchemical odyssey of death and rebirth the author makes himself transparent through his dreams and brings himself tangibly into his text so as to enact a dialectic of ego and Self. “In tackling the subject of death and rebirth Steven Rosen writes about our modern state of mind how we got like this and where we need to go from here. He does all this with a psychotherapeutic insight that begins with his own subjectivity–and his own dreams–and ends with the subjectivity of the modern world. Using myths dreams and alchemical symbolism as well as psychological research and Jungian insights Rosen speaks to us all from the self and the Self. A book to be read immediately and then read again.” -Christopher Hauke Jungian analyst and author of Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities “How does a mental-spiritual ego the creation of our post-Renaissance world embrace the body as a living partner? In Dreams Death Rebirth Steven M. Rosen offers a topological analysis that meets the challenge of this daunting endeavor. It is a remarkable accomplishment and vital for the advancement of psychotherapy.” -Nathan Schwartz-Salant Jungian analyst and author of The Black Nightgown: The Fusional Complex and the Unlived Life