Abstract

A work in three parts, this book attempts to explicate and synthesize, where possible, the works of such apparently diverse thinkers as Sartre, Heidegger and Jung. Paradox, dialectics monologues, dialogues and trialogues are the methods used to explore the areas of convergence and divergence in these authors as their thinking relates to an image of man emerging from their separate psychologies and ontologies. Social and clinical phenomena are discussed in relation to that image of man in an effort to give it substance and also, to indicate the directions which this new emergence may take provided Sartre, Heidegger and Jung are in reality its major spokesman, each with his own prophetic mission with respect to the human condition and its future. And finally, the religion and philosophy of gnosticism are suggested as the ur-grund which accounts not only for the emergent image of man, but as a very special way of viewing reality which in point of fact welds the works of Sartre, Heidegger and Jung together as but threads of different colors in one neo-gnostic tapestry