Archetype of the Absolute: The Unity of Opposites in Mysticism, Philosophy, and Psychology

Sanford L. Drob is a Core Faculty Member in the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at Fielding University and is on the faculty of the C. G. Jung Institute in New York. He holds doctorates in both philosophy and clinical psychology, is a prolific artist, and has made contributions in the fields of philosophy, theology and clinical/forensic psychology. For many years, he served as the Senior Forensic Psychologist and Director of Psychological Assessment at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York. Dr. Drob is well known for his writings on the psychology of C. G. Jung and for his efforts to develop a universalist rational-mystical theology through a synthesis of Jewish mysticism and contemporary thought. In a series of books (Symbols of the Kabbalah, 2000, Kabbalistic Metaphors, 2000, Kabbalah and Postmodernism, 2009, ) as well as on his website, www.newkabbalah.com, Drob shows how the symbols of the Lurianic Kabbalah articulate a ＂basic metaphor＂ that is reprised in a philosophical idiom in the writings of such later thinkers as Hegel, Freud, Jung and Derrida, and which serves as a compelling model for understanding the world and the place of humanity within it. Drob is also known for his writings on the psychologist C. G. Jung. His books, Kabbalistic Visions: C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism (2010), and Reading the Red Book: An Interpretive Guide to C. G. Jung’s Liber Novus (2012) approach Jung from a philosophical, theological and psychological point of view. Dr. Drob maintains an active practice in forensic psychology and psychological assessment in New York City. As a painter, he works in a traditional representational idiom in order update and resignify theological, mystical and archetypal themes, and addresses basic philosophical and theological questions through the medium of narrative painting. His paintings can be seen a www.sanforddrobart.com.