Solomon and Sheba: Inner Marriage and Individuation

by Barbara Black Koltuv

The story of Solomon and Sheba can be understood on many levels. It is a love story, but it is also the splendid account of the heart's journey toward individuation and inner marriage; it is a coniunctio of the masculine and feminine principles that exist in every human psyche - male and female. The end of the journey results in a new birth - and the transformation is unmistakably a story of mystical love - and the love of God.

147 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1993

About the author

Barbara Black Koltuv received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University in 1962. She had a Post Doctoral Fellowship in 1963, and was licensed by New York State as a Psychologist. She began to study at the New York University Post Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her primary supervisor was Erich Fromm, with whom she studied the language of dreams, and learned to work with patients from a deeply spiritual psychological perspective. In 1969 she was awarded a Diploma in Psychoanalysis from the New York University Post-Doctoral Program.

Barbara Black Koltuv began her psychoanalytic practice in New York in 1963. She was known to be "a talented psychoanalyst" who, because she had no particular theoretical preference, "worked with dreams from the seat of my pants". All that changed in the summer of 1968 when she discovered Jung's autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections. There she found a theoretical orientation that honored intuition and was deep and broad enough to include psychology, imagination, creativity, spirituality, and a way of healing personal suffering. She began reading everything of Jung's and the Jungians, and began analysis with a wonderful Jungian analyst.

In 1973 she began training at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. There, her teachers were Edward Edinger and Christopher Whitmont.

She received her Diploma as a Jungian Analyst in 1980 from the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and served on the Board of the Institute, and on the faculty as a supervisor and training analyst.

She lectured and gave workshops and classes in feminine psychology, Lilith, relationships, creativity, and spirituality at the C.G. Jung Foundation, Wainwright House, and The Open Center.

In 2003 she was a founding member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, where she continue to be a faculty member, supervisor, and senior analyst, and serve on the Philip T. Zabriskie Lecture Committee.

Reviews

[Kristin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fascinating to see various historical writings drawn together. I appreciated the maps and artwork that were carefully selected to supplement the narrative the author was creating. The book seems to assume some knowledge of alchemy, which I did not have.