C. G. Jung in the Humanities: Taking the Soul's Path

ISBN-13: 9780367439279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Susan Rowland

Opis

This book demonstrates for the first time the significance of Jung’s work to the humanities, and to those areas where the humanities and sciences share borders. More radically, it shows that Jung was a writer of myth, alchemy, narrative, and poetics, as well as on them.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Jung;  Chapter 2: Jung the Writer on Psychotherapy and Culture;  Chapter 3: Jung for Literature, Art, and Film;  Chapter 4:  Myth and History;  Chapter 5: Jung and Science, Alchemy, and Religion;  Chapter 6: Jung and Power: Politics and Gender;  Chapter 7: Jung in the Twenty-First Century: Fishing at the Gates of Hell;  Glossary;  Notes;  Index

O autorze

Susan Rowland is Professor of English and Post-Jungian Studies at the University of Greenwich, UK. Her recent books include Jung as a Writer (Routledge, 2005) and Jung: A Feminist Revision (Polity, 2002), as well as editing Psyche and the Arts (Routledge, 2008) and writing a book and essays on female British mystery writers, identifying myth as the deep form of that genre. Future work includes The Ecocritical Psyche, which introduces Jung to the emerging field of ecocriticism.