book, Richard Noll makes the case that Jung promoted his psychological theories as a pagan religion, and asserts that one cannot be both a Catholic and a Jungian. The eminent Jewish theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber, had a lifelong interest in psychoanalysis, and may have attended the same Eranos conference with Jung in 1934. In 1952 Buber and Jung exchanged letters regarding a paper Buber had published entitled “Religion and Modern Thinking”. In his rejoinder, Buber claimed that Jung had strayed outside his realm of expertise into theology by asserting that God does not exist independent of the psyches of human beings. He concluded that Jung was “mystically deifying the instincts instead of hallowing them in faith”, which he called a “modern manifestation of Gnosis”. Naomi R. Goldenberg, after reviewing Jung’s idea of archetypes as disembodied Platonic forms and on the damage done to women by the mind-body dichotomy, suggests that “feminist theory radically depart from the Jungian archetype [and] from all systems of thought that posit transcendent, superhuman deities.” While rejecting this part of Jungian theory, she recommends that women can use Jung’s practice of active imagination, or “dreaming the dream onward”, to form a satisfying psychospiritual community. Marie-Louise von Franz’ book analyzing the dreams of the dying concludes that “the unconscious ... prepares [us] not for a definite end but for a profound transformation and for a kind of continuation of the life process”. She joins with Edinger in suggesting that some dreams cannot be adequately interpreted as symbolic representations of subjective inner processes, but are “metaphysical”, hinting at a reality that is deeply mysterious. See also Archetypal psychology Higher consciousness References Bibliography {{cite book |last=von Franz |first=Marie-Louise |year=1998 |title=On Dreams & Death: A Jungian Interpretation, Open Court Publishing, Chicago, IL, 1998 }} Further reading Hoeller, Stephan (1989), Gnostic Jung. Quest Books. Jung, Carl (2002), Answer to Job. Taylor & Francis. Jung, Carl (1967), Seven Sermons to the Dead''. Stuart & Watkins. Religion Psychology of religion