With an all encompassing theme, "The Transcendent Function: Individual and Collective Aspects", The Twelfth International Congress for Analytical Psychology was convened in Chicago on August 23, 1992. A wide range of papers and presentations elucidated diverse approaches to the roles played by symbols in analysis, their relationships to one another and their beholders, and possibilities for transcendence.From the Contents:Jef Dehing: The Transcendent Function: A Critical Re-Evaluation Petra Affeld-Niemeyer: The Transcendent Function in Therapy after Incestuous Violence Louis H. Stewart: Political Leadership and the Transcendent Function Basilio Reale: Esthetic Experience and the Transcendent Function Aimé Agnel: Another Degree of Complexity Hester McFarland Solomon: Hegel's Dialectical Vision and the Transcendent Function Polly Young-Eisendrath: Locating the Transcendent: Inference, Rupture, Irony Helmut Barz: The Transcendent Function and Psychodrama Lee Roloff: Living, Ignoring, and RegressingAnn Belford Ulanov: The Perverse and the Transcendent Robert L. Moore: Decoding the Diamond BodyGustav Bovensiepen: The Body as Container for the Transcendent Function Henry Hanoch Abramovitch: Disguise as a Transition to Homecoming William Willeford: A Midsummer Night's Dream Rushi Ledermann: Narcissistic Disorder and the Transcendent Function John R. Van Eenwyk: The Chaotic Dynamics of the Transcendent Function Kaspar Kiepenheuer: Psychosomatic Symptoms as Synchronistic Occurrences As well as forum papers by:Paul Brutsche, Carlos Amadeu B. Byington, Aldo Carotenuto, Lionel Corbett, Jean-Pierre Falaise, Christian Gaillard, Sidney Handel, Judith Hubback, Mario Jacoby, Margaret P. Johnson, Paul Kugler, Pedro Kujawski, Mary Loomis, Rafael López-Pedraza, Marilyn Nagy, Renos Papadopoulos, Leon Petchkovsky, Bou-Young Rhi, Verena Rossetti-Gsell, Seth Isaiah Rubin, Peter Rutter, Joel Ryce-Menuhin, Andrew Samuels, Peter Schellenbaum, Marga Speicher, Murray Stein, Makoto Takeuchi, Elizabeth Urban, William O. Walcott, James Wyly, Beverley Zabriskie, Denyse Zémor