Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities

ISBN-13: 9780415163859 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 320 str.

Christopher Hauke

Opis

What has Jung to do with the Postmodern? Chris Hauke's lively and provocative book, puts the case that Jung's psychology constitutes a critique of modernity that brings it in line with many aspects of the postmodern critique of contemporary culture. The metaphor he uses is one in which 'we are gazing through a Jungian transparency or filter being held up against the postmodern while, from the other side, we are also able to look through a transparency or filter of the postmodern to gaze at Jung. From either direction there will be a new and surprising vision.'
Setting Jung against a range of postmodern thinkers, Hauke recontextualizes Jung' s thought as a reponse to modernity, placing it - sometimes in parallel and sometimes in contrast to - various postmodern discourses. Including chapters on themes such as meaning, knowledge and power, the contribution of architectural criticism to the postmodern debate, Nietzsche's perspective theory of affect and Jung's complex theory, representation and symbolization, constructivism and pluralism, this is a book which will find a ready audience in academy and profession alike.

Spis treści

Foreword by Andrew Samuels, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Why postmodern?, 2 Freud and Jung: the analysis of the individual and the collective, 3 Consciousness consciousing: individuation and/under postmodern conditions, 4 Frank Gehry's house and Carl Jung's Tower, 5 Postmodern gender: masculine, feminine and the other, 6 Jung, Nietzsche and the roots of the postmodern, 7 Nietzsche, power and the body, or, Jung and the post-hysteric, 8 Image, sign, symbol: representation and the postmodern, 9 Affect and modernity, 10 Mind and matter: Jungian and postmodern science, 11 'I'm OK, you're mad': sanity, psychosis and community, 12 'The gods are with us. And they want to play', References, index

O autorze

Christopher Hauke