Enemy, Cripple & Beggar:
Shadows in the Hero’s Path

ISBN: 0-977-6076-7-4
ISBN 13: 978-09776076-7-9
Psychology / Movements / Jungian
First Edition Trade Paperback
Publication Date: August-2008
Price: $19.95
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
256 Pages (estimated)
Author: Erel Shalit
Publisher: Fisher King Press

In Enemy, Cripple, & Beggar, Erel Shalit provides new thoughts and views on the concepts of Hero and Shadow.
From a Jungian perspective, this forthcoming Fisher King Press publication will elaborate on mythological and
psychological images. Myths and fairy tales explored include Perseus and Andersen’s The Cripple. You’ll also
enjoy the psychological deciphering of Biblical stories such as Amalek—The Wicked Warrior, Samson—The
Impoverished Sun, and Jacob & the Divine Adversary. With the recent discovery of The Gospel of Judas, Dr.
Shalit also delves into the symbolic relationship between Jesus and Judas Iscariot to illustrate the hero-function’s
inevitable need of a shadow. Clinical material concerning a case of a powerful erotic counter-transference is also
an integral part of this deeply insightful body of work.

The Hero is that aspect of our psyche, or in society, who dares to venture into the unknown, into the shadow of
the unconscious, bringing us in touch with the darker aspects in our soul and in the world. In fact, it is the hero
whom we send each night into the land of dreams to bring home the treasures of the unconscious. He, or no less
she, will have to struggle with the Enemy that so often is mis-projected onto the detested Other, learn to care and
attend to the Cripple who carries our crippling complexes and weaknesses, and develop respect for the shabby
Beggar to whom we so often turn our backs—for it is the ‘beggar in need’ who holds the key to our inner Self.

As with Erel Shalit’s previously published book The Complex: Path of Transformation from Archetype to Ego,
comprehensive views of the concepts and images of the Shadow and the Hero are provided and theory further
explored. While directed toward an audience of analysts and Jungian oriented psychotherapists and clinicians,
Enemy, Cripple & Beggar: Shadows in the Hero’s Path can be comfortably read as well by an informed lay public
interested in Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis, and by those interested in the interface between
psychology and mythology, and psychology and religion.

Erel Shalit is a Jungian psychoanalyst in Ra’anana, Israel. He is a training and supervising analyst, and past
president of the Israel Society of Analytical Psychology (ISAP). He is the author of several publications,
including The Hero and His Shadow: Psychopolitical Aspects of Myth and Reality in Israel and The Complex: Path of
Transformation from Archetype to Ego. Articles of his have have appeared in Quadrant, The Jung Journal, Spring
Journal, Political Psychology, Clinical Supervisor, Round Table Review, Jung Page, Midstream, and he has entries in
The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. Dr. Shalit lectures at professional institutes, universities, and cultural
forums in Israel, Europe, and the United States.

Available from your local bookstore, a host of on-line booksellers, and directly from Fisher King Press
ISBN 13: 978-0-9776076-7-9 / ISBN 10: 0-9776076-7-4, Publication Date: Aug-2008, Price: $19.95. To order your copy in
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