Psyche and Eros
"Rhett Diessner has presented us with a wonderful collection of articles that no student of psychology and spirituality can afford to miss. They range from discussing action research to seven-stage theories of spiritual development in Middle-Eastern religious literature, and a critique of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development from a Bahá’í perspective. The seminal contribution of his work is a theory of the appreciation of beauty as the foundation of moral and spiritual development. Freud used the Oedipus myth as a metaphor for the development of a psychology of love in which the limitations of jealousy and self-destruction are never fully overcome. Diessner’s stunning conclusion is to use the Bahá’í writings to explore spiritual dimensions of the myth of Psyche and Eros as a root metaphor for spiritual transformation in which the negative forces of the personality, though powerful, do not ultimately prevail, but are transcended in the final union of love and beauty."
John Davidson PhD, School of Psychology, University of Tasmania
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978-0-85398-512–9
