Fieldnotes from a Depth Psychological Exploration of Evil: From Chinggis Khan to Carl Jung

ISBN-13: 9780815356172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 184 str.

Robin Gordon

Opis

In Fieldnotes from a Depth Psychological Exploration of Evil, Gordon presents an accessible account of an attempt to define and understand the nature of evil. She takes on the role of guide, tying together threads of Jungian theory, philosophy, etymology, neuroscience and history, as we are led on a personal journey of discovery.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: The Journey Emerges;  Chapter 2: Defining the Undefinable;  Chapter 3: When Psyche Goes Awry and Results in Evil Behavior;  Chapter 4: Nazi Doctors: How Can a Healer and Murderer Sit in One Psyche?;  Chapter 5: Shadow;  Chapter 6: Blindness to Shadow: Projecting onto the Other;  Chapter 7: Self-Knowledge: Looking Within;  Chapter 8: Chinggis Khan and the Transcendent Function;  Chapter 9: Sitting and Working in the Spaces;  References;  Index.

O autorze

Robin L. Gordon has completed a Ph.D. in Education at Claremont Graduate University and holds another Ph.D. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA. She is a Professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles, USA, and she presents her ground-breaking work internationally. Her areas of research are multi-disciplinary, and she is the author of several publications.