The resurrection of the Dead: A Jungian Approach of the Mourning Process

Engaging in a comparative analysis of the Freudian and Jungian conceptions of psychic reality, the author emphasizes the difference in status of the image, particularly the autonomy of the image, in the Jungian approach. The purpose of such an analysis is to provide insight into what the idea of resurrection, in its various forms, such as the images of the dead which come to patients in mourning, is likely to bring to the work of mourning.