For Joseph Henderson

Integrity in

Depth

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IN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY

David H . Rosen, General Editor

Integrity in

Depth

John Beebe

F O R E W O R D B Y D A V I D H . R O S E N

Texas A & M University Press College Station

Copyright 1992 by John Beebe Manufactured in the United States of America

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Beebe , John.

Integrity i n depth / J o h n beebe ; foreword by D a v i d H . R o s e n .

p. c m . (Carolyn and Ernest Fay series i n ana-lytical psychology ; no. 2)

Includes bibl iographical references and index. I S B N 0-89096-493-9 (alk. paper) I S B N 1-58544-463-4 (pbk.)

1. Shadow (Psychoanalysis) 2. Integrity. I. T i t le . II. Series.

BF175.5.S55B44 1992

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IN A N A L Y T I C A L P S C Y H O L O G Y

D a v i d H . R o s e n , Genera l E d i t o r

The Carolyn and Ernest Fay edited book series, based initially on the annual Fay Lecture Series in Analytical Psychology, was established to further the ideas of C . G. Jung among students, faculty, therapists, and other citizens and to enhance scholarly activities related to analytical psychology. The Book Series and Lecture Series address topics of importance to the individual and to society. Both series were generously endowed by Carolyn Grant Fay, the founding president of the C . G. Jung Educa-tional Center in Houston, Texas. The series are in part a memo-rial to her late husband, Ernest Bel Fay. Carolyn Fay has planted a Jungian tree carrying both her name and that of her late hus-band, which w i l l bear fruitful ideas and stimulate creative works from this time forward. Texas A & M University and all those who come in contact w i th the growing Fay Jungian tree are extremely grateful to Carolyn Grant Fay for what she has done. The holder of the Frank N . M c M i l l a n , Jr. Professorship in Analytical Psychology at Texas A & M functions as the general

editor of the Fay Book Series.

Contents

Foreword, by David H . Rosen page x i Acknowledgments x ix

Prologue 3 Chapter I . A Psychological Definition of Integrity 5 Chapter 2. The Shadow and Integrity 33 Chapter 3. Integrity and Gender 70 Chapter 4. Work ing on Integrity 99

Epilogue 125

Notes Index

127

155

Foreword

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

EMERSON

J O H N B E E B E has successfully carried out an immense task of un-derstanding one of the most challenging subjects: integrity, and in depth! He has completed his archeological work extremely well , excavating from the surface to the center, and we progress through layers of philosophy, psychology, and literature, as well as western and eastern spiritual disciplines. In the process, Dr . Beebe uncovers innumerable elements that compose the whole. Integrity comprises responsibility, uprightness, standing tall, be-ing untouched, staying intact, completeness, perfection, honesty, moral obligation, delight, inner psychological harmony, conti-nuity, psychological and ethical eros, sincerity, chastity, virgin-ity, obedience, conscience, prudence, purity, constancy, amiabil-ity, and holiness. A n d all this makes sense, because the definition of integrity or integritas is the entire. Integrate and integration come from the same Latin root as integrity. Integrate means to combine all the disparate elements into one harmonious entity. This is what Beebe does, and his labor of integration is an act of renewing and restoring integrity. The circle is complete, and it is meaningful that Beebe makes the connection of integrity with the Self, which represents the center and the totality in Jung's psychological system. Both integrity and the Self are spiritual con-cepts that unify and facilitate transcendence and transformation.