The Kabbalah and Jung’s Final Metanoia

Abstract

ABSTRACT Sanford Drob’s Kabbalistic Visions: C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism examines the parallels between Kabbalistic spiritual practice and Jungian analytic work, including the conjunction of such opposites as male and female and especially of light and dark. The Kabbalah is presented in its historical evolution from an exoteric Jewish tradition to an esoteric interior process that is mirrored in Jungian analysis. This enables us to understand how Jung’s late visions were rooted in his controversial but evolving attitude toward Jewish psychology, resulting in the widely noted deepening of his last major works.