Murray Stein shares timeless lectures in
The Bible as Dream: A Jungian Interpretation
In The Bible as Dream, Murray Stein shares important themes and images in the biblical narrative that from a psychological perspective, stand out as essential features of the meaning of the Bible for the modern reader.
The Bible presents a world elaborated with reference to a specific God image. As the mythographer Karl Kerenyi puts it in writing about the Greek gods and goddesses, every god and every goddess constitutes a world. So it is too with the biblical God, whose name Stein exceptionally capitalizes throughout out of cultural respect.
The biblical world is the visionary product of a particular people, the ancient Hebrews and the early Christians, who delved deeply into their God image and pulled from it the multitude of perspectives, rules for life, spiritual practices, and practical implications that all together created the tapestry that we find depicted in the canonical Bible. Yahweh is the heart and soul of this world, its creator, sustainer, and destroyer. The Bible is a dream that tells the story of how this world was brought into being in space and time and what it means.
Don’t miss these timeless lectures – a work of respectful and loving interpretation.
Table of Contents
Part I. A Psychological Reading of the Bible
Lecture One – On Reading the Bible Psychologically
Lecture Two – In the Beginning – Creation
Lecture Three – The Shadow
Lecture Four – Faith and Individuation
Lecture Five – Anima Images
Lecture Six – Animus Images
Lecture Seven – Election and Adoption – Envy and the Self
Lecture Eight – From King to Servant – Ego Relativization
Part II. The Gospel According to John
Lecture One – “Word”
Lecture Two – “Light”
Lecture Three – “Way”
Audiobooks Available for Volumes 1, 2 & 3 of the Collected Writings of Murray Stein
Also Available in Print from Murray Stein
The Collected Writings of Murray Stein: Volume 1
– Individuation
The Collected Writings of Murray Stein: Volume 2
The Collected Writings of Murray Stein:
Volume 3
The Collected Writings of Murray Stein:
Volume 4 – The Practice of Jungian Psychoanalysis
The Collected Writings Of Murray Stein: Volume 6 – Analytical Psychology And Religion
Volume 5 is currently in production
The Mystery of Transformation
Outside Inside and All Around:
And Other Essays in Jungian Psychology
Four Pillars of Jungian Psychoanalysis
In Midlife
Men Under Construction:
Challenges and Prospects
Map of the Soul – 7: Persona, Shadow
& Ego in the World of BTS
Jung’s Treatment of Christianity:
The Psychotherapy of a Religious Tradition
The Principle of Individuation: Toward the Development of Human Consciousness
Murray Stein, Ph.D., studied at Yale University (B.A. in English) and attended graduate student at Yale Divinity School (M.Div.) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. in Religion and Psychological Studies). He trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich.
From 1976 to 2003, he was a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, of which he was a founding member and president from 1980-85. In 1989, he joined the executive committee of IAAP as honorary secretary for Dr. Thomas Kirsch (1989-1995) and served as president of the IAAP from 2001-2004. He was president of ISAP Zurich 2008-2012 and is currently a training and supervising analyst there.
He resides in Goldiwil (Thun), Switzerland. His special interests are psychotherapy and spirituality, methods of Jungian psychoanalytic treatment, and the individuation process.