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This book developed from articles and talks from 1973 to 1995. The theme that unites the work of over twenty years is the functioning of the Transcendent in analytic practice. As Ulanov states in the introduction, ‘[What] brings these chapters together is the discovery that if we consciously engage the transcendent function in our psyches, we may experience Transcendence at the source, working in us and through us’ (xi). Ulanov weaves together clinical vignettes which depict the experience of the Transcendent in day-to-day analytic practice. The underpinnings of depth psychology come alive in examples of dogged clinical work satisfying the soul and titillating the intellect.
Ulanov has organized the ten chapters of the book in three parts, with an introduction. Although brief, the introduction helps the reader to orient and focus attention on Ulanov's understanding of the Transcendent. As she trenchantly reminds us, ‘The subject of the functioning Transcendent is not an airy esoteric matter tacked onto clinical work like so much embroidery … If we can stand the tension, we may come to see our conscious awareness enlarging to include two opposing viewpoints and then arriving at