Main description:

- especially relevant given the Covid-19 pandemic and the large number of deaths it has created worldwide - chapters by diverse and well-known authors in Jungian circles

Contents:

Introduction Part 1: Cross cultural, liminal relations with the dead 1. Dia de los Muertos day of the dead in Los Angeles as numinosum 2. A comparative, ethnographic study of the journey to the land of the dead 3. Crossing the bridge to uncertainty, a life with death and the dead Part 2: Pandemics and access to immortality 4. Splintered Afterlives: Aids, death and beyond 5. C.G. Jung, Gloria Anzaldua and social activisim's possibility Part 3: Burial rituals: crossing over 6. Bardo, Noh Play and zeitgerist in Japan 7. Pandemc, the zenith of an archetypal disconnection Part 4: Grief, mourning and loss: clinical dimensions 8. The problem of death and meaning for depth psychology 9. When the mourning process needs psychiatric support Part 5: Eros, death and the unconscious 10. Deceased loved ones in dreams 11. Immortaliy, mourning, and ritual Part 6: Towards an archetypal ontology of death 12. The seduction of immortality: Jung, Heidegger, and Hegel on death 13. Destiny and personal myth: archetypal constellations of the soul Part 7: Psycho-social dimensions of grief and the mourning process 14. Opening the eyes to invisible people 15. The Katako syndrome: Japan's problem with youth suicide