ON THE MYSTERIES OF THE SOUL
New Editions from Spring Publications
SPRING PUBLICATIONS is pleased to announce the immediate availability of newly revised editions of two books that attest to the mystery of the soul from the perspectives of both philosophy and psychology, Edward S. Casey’s SPIRIT AND SOUL and Evangelos Christou’s THE LOGOS OF THE SOUL.
SPIRIT AND SOUL
Essays in Philosophical Psychology
by EDWARD S. CASEY
Third revised edition 2024, 540 pages
$30 (softcover) / $9.99 (Kindle/Apple Books)
In a clear and vivid manner, EDWARD S. CASEY, one of America’s finest thinkers, takes up the great themes of imagination, remembering, perceiving, and place. A brilliant and useful account of basic philosophical problems, which are also major mysteries of the soul. Casey asks, How are we to join—or to rejoin, or to see as already conjoined—spirit and soul? For Casey, spirit and soul are “held together … above all, by the images that imagining and remembering share.”
First published in 1991 and expanded in 2004, this revised edition adds a comprehensive bibliography.
For Casey, philosophy itself would not be possible without the imagination. Like emotion, imagination is “a spontaneously unifying factor in human experience, first linking body with soul ... and then connecting soul with spirit.” For Casey, like for Hegel and Giegerich, this linking is not an external process that starts with two different objective entities: body and soul, “but of an indefinite plurality of modes of existing between which imagination moves in its Mercurial manner.” If, for Casey, imagination is an upward linking already in process, a binding adhesive that is active at a subtle level, it is also not the only process at work as a synthesizing force. Imagination's upward movement is matched by memory's downward movement from spirit to soul.
—STANTON MARLAN
EDWARD S. CASEY
EDWARD S. CASEY, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, was the president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division) from 2009–10, and chairman of the philosophy department at Stony Brook University for a decade. He works in aesthetics, philosophy of space and time, ethics, perception, and psychoanalytic theory. He obtained his doctorate at Northwestern University in 1967 and has taught at Yale University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, The New School for Social Research, Emory University, and several other institutions. He is the author of The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History; Getting Back Into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World; Remembering: A Phenomenological Study; and its sequel, Imagining: A Phenomenological Study.
THE LOGOS OF THE SOUL
by EVANGELOS CHRISTOU
Third revised edition 2024, 150 pages
$20 (softcover) / $9.99 (Kindle/Apple Books)
This new edition of the important study by the philosopher and psychologist EVANGELOS CHRISTOU (1923–1956) outlines a fundamental logic for psychotherapy that is distinct from that of the natural sciences or philosophy. He proves that psychotherapy has its own legitimate area of activity and that its rights are based on the soul.
Greek by birth, raised in Egypt, educated both at Cambridge (by Wittgenstein, among others) and trained at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Christou was a true heir of Socrates and the logical philosophers of Cambridge. The Logos of the Soul is the legacy of a gifted young intellectual whose life and work were cut short by a tragic accident.
With an introduction by JAMES HILLMAN and a foreword by C. A. MEIER.
The problem that the author attacks in this monograph is the most difficult in psychology, more difficult even than the classical one of consciousness. It is so difficult because it takes up first principles, the very method by means of which any psychological investigation can be carried on at all. In this sense it is metapsychology, but—and here is the new departure—it is not a metaphysical metapsychology that takes its premises from outside psychology.
—JAMES HILLMAN
JANI and EVANGELOS CHRISTOU
Jani Christou Archive, Athens
Greek by birth, EVANGELOS CHRISTOU was raised in Alexandria, Egypt. He was educated at Cambridge (by Wittgenstein, among others) and trained at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. His younger brother JANI EVANGELOS (1926–1970) was a Greek avant-garde composer who was regarded as one of the leading composers of his generation who created work that integrated philosophical notions and music. Evangelos had a significant impact on his brother, initiating him in Jungian psychology, which had an immense influence on his work. While Evangelos
studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Jani visited him and attended some of Jung’s lectures where he also met James Hillman who edited and published Evangelos’s only book, The Logos of the Soul, posthumously in 1963. Both brothers died tragically in car accidents: Evangelos in 1956, and Jani in 1970.