Dreaming the Myth Onwards: New Directions in Jungian Therapy and Thought

ISBN-13: 9780415438377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 232 str.

Lucy Huskinson;Lucy Huskinson

Opis

Dreaming the Myth Onwards shows how a revised appreciation of myth can enrich our daily lives, our psychological awareness, and our human relationships. Lucy Huskinson and her contributors explore the interplay between myth, and Jungian thought and practice, demonstrating the philosophical and psychological principles that underlie our experience of psyche and world.

Contributors from multi-disciplinary backgrounds throughout the world come together to assess the contemporary relevance of myth, in terms of its utility, its effectual position within Jungian theory and practice, and as a general approach for making sense of life. As well as examining the more conscious facets of myth, this volume discusses the unconscious psychodynamic "processes of myth", including active imagination, transference, and countertransference, to illustrate just how these mythic phenomena give meaning to Jungian theory and therapeutic experience.

This rigorous and scholarly analysis showcases fresh readings of central Jungian concepts, updated in accordance with shifts in the cultural and epistemological concerns of contemporary Western consciousness. Dreaming the Myth Onwards will be essential reading for practicing analysts and academics in the field of the arts and social sciences.

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Huskinson, Introduction: Ordinarily Mythical. Part I: Directing Onwards. Kaya, Compelled to Create: The Courage to Go Beyond. Part II: Changing Faces of Myth. Sanguineti, Exploring the Mythical Realities of Psyche. Shearer, The Myth of Themis and Jung’s Concept of the Self. Tacey, Imagining Transcendence at the End of Modernity. Rowland, Jung as a Writer of Myth, Discourse and the Healing of Modernity. Vannoy Adams, Does Myth (Still) Have a Function in Jungian Studies? Modernity, Myth, Metaphor, and Psycho-mythology. Segal, Bringing Myth Back to the World: The Future of Myth in Jungian Psychology. Part III: Myths at Play. Schlamm, Active Imagination in Answer to Job. Schaverien, Active Imagination and Countertransference Enchantment: Space and Time within the Analytic Frame. Nakamura, The Image Emerging: The Therapist’s Vision at a Crucial Point of Therapy. Part IV: Psychic Revisions: Towards a New Mythology. Goss, Envisaging Animus: An Angry Face in the Consulting Room. Gray, Plato’s Echo: A Feminist Re-figuring of the Anima. Main, Re-imagining the Child: Challenging Social Constructionist Views of Childhood. Heuer, Discourse of Illness of Discourse of Health: Towards a Paradigm-shift in Post-Jungian Theory. Griffith, Evoking the Embodied Image: Jung in the Age of the Brain.

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Lucy Huskinson is Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Wales, Bangor, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Australia; the Philosophy Program, La Trobe University, Australia; and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK. Her first book is Nietzsche and Jung: The Whole Self in the Union of Opposites (Routledge, 2004).