Individuation and Liberty in a Globalized World: Psychosocial Perspectives on Freedom after Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780367768966 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 246 str.

Stefano Carpani

Opis

What is the best way to understand the narratives of self-identity at the beginning of the 21st century? This interdisciplinary collection brings together perspectives from analytical psychology, sociology, psychiatry, psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis to consider questions about individuation and freedom in our disconnected world.

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction: Absolute Freedom is 'Freedom After Freedom'   1 Dreaming Your Future. Dreaming Your Freedom  2 In Defense of the Freedoms of the Self  3 The paradox of metaphor  4 The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Complex Theory and the Numinous in the Development of History (A neo-Jungian approach)  5 The Impossibility of Freedom: From Psychoanalytical Conceptions to Political Objections  6 Individuation, Textuality, and Sexuality in Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia  7 Mysterium Dissociationis: The masculine in crisis towards new forms of thought and relationship.  8 False Start: A neo-Jungian Critique of Self-Help  9 Natality, Individuation and generative social action: From amor mundi to social generativity  10‘Roots in a pot’: The identity conundrum in global nomads.  11 The Necessity of Guilt: a Freeing Movement of the Soul Towards Individuation  12 Floating and Taking root: individuation and floating in contemporary traumatic conditions  13 Paranoia, politics and the tyranny of the identical: Is there civilization in the transitions we are crossing?  14 The applicability of analytical psychology in China: how a Western psychological lens might be adapted in the East