This innovative volume on the mourning process, burial rites and intimations of immortality offers diverse Jungian, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, depth-psychological perspectives, written predominantly by graduates and candidates of the CG Jung Institute Zürich.

The themes of this book are particularly relevant as they relate to the COVID-19 pandemic and other environmental disasters, when so many people die without a proper burial and are, thus, not properly commemorated with their status value. The contributors cover a wide range of subjects from their clinical observations attached to grief and loss in the prolonged mourning process, the meaning behind burial rites in cyclical and linear temporalities and an analysis of why certain dead are excluded from becoming ancestors. Unconscious processes such as dreams, archetypes and cultural complexes from the personal and collective unconscious are also presented and explored.

This collection will be of great interest to interdisciplinary academic researchers, Jungian analysts and students, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, anthropologists, cultural theorists and students interested in the mourning process, rites of passage, past and present burial practices and the imaginative, symbolic significance of the land of the dead.

Introduction

Elizabeth Brodersen

Part 1: Cross cultural, liminal relations with the dead

1. Day of the dead in Los Angeles as numinosum

Valeria Céspedes Musso

2. A comparative, ethnographic study of the journey to the land of the dead

Elizabeth Brodersen

3. Crossing the bridge to uncertainty, a life with death and the dead

John Hill

Part 2: Pandemics and access to immortality

4. Splintered Afterlives: Aids, death and beyond

Paul Attinello

5. C.G. Jung, Gloria Anzaldua and social activism's possibility

Robin Mccoy Brooks

Part 3: Burial rituals: crossing over

6. Bardo, Noh Play and zeitgeist in Japan

Yasuhiro Suzuki

7. Pandemic, the zenith of an archetypal disconnection

Fernando Mendes

Part 4: Grief, mourning and loss: clinical dimensions

8. The problem of death and meaning for depth psychology

Erik Goodwyn

9. When the mourning process needs psychiatric support

Gerold Roth

Part 5: Eros, death and the unconscious

10. Deceased loved ones in dreams

Verena Kast

11. Immortality, mourning and ritual

Susan E. Schwartz

Part 6: Towards an archetypal ontology of death

12. The seduction of immortality: Jung, Heidegger, and Hegel on death

Jon Mills

13. Destiny and personal myth: archetypal constellations of the soul

Vicente L. de Moura

Part 7: Psycho-social dimensions of grief and the mourning process

14. Opening the eyes to invisible people

Idalina Souza

15. The Katako syndrome: Japan's problem with youth suicide

Hiroko Sakata and Cécile Buckenmeyer