Corpus Anima: Reflections from the Unity of Body and Soul

Corpus Anima is a collection of previously published essays written for professional
Jungian journals about the unity of psyche and soma, spirit and matter, body and soul. There

are also two chapters of more personal reflections, previously unpublished, including a series of

articles on the mid-Atlantic Azorean Archipelago. The essays on psyche and soma come from

the direct experience of their unity. We live, life moves, at the confluence of these polarities of

spirit and matter, body and soul, where through the capacity to hold contradiction and paradox

we can become whole.

Included in this collection is a published essay (Routledge) on the Portuguese poet and writer,

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). His particular paradoxical expression of the soul and its life in

the world is radically inspiring. The lines below are written on his tomb in Lisbon, resting in the

same national monument with Vasco de Gama (c. 1460s-1524), world oceanic explorer. Pessoa

was an explorer of inner worlds. He is, posthumously, a national treasure.

I am nothing.

I shall always be nothing.

I cannot want to be anything.

But I have in me all the dreams of the world.

Cedrus Monte, PhD, is a Jungian Analyst, graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Switzerland
(1995) where she now resides. She is originally from Northern California. Her roots lie there,

even her heart; but even deeper roots, soul roots, lie in the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous island regions of Portugal. An uprooted wanderer of many lands, she has grounded herself as much as possible in the one constant earth, the body.