Jung as a Writer

ISBN-13: 9781583919026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 236 str.

Susan Rowland

Opis

Jung as a Writer traces a relationship between Jung and literature by analysing his texts using the methodology of literary theory. This investigation serves to illuminate the literary nature of Jung s writing in order to shed new light on his psychology and its relationship with literature as a cultural practice.

Jung employed literary devices throughout his writing, including direct and indirect argument, anecdote, fantasy, myth, epic, textual analysis and metaphor. Susan Rowland examines Jung s use of literary techniques in several of his works, including Anima and Animus, On the Nature of the Psyche, Psychology and Alchemy and Synchronicity and describes Jung s need for literature in order to capture in writing his ideas about the unconscious. Jung as a Writer succeeds in demonstrating Jung s contribution to literary and cultural theory in autobiography, gender studies, postmodernism, feminism, deconstruction and hermeneutics and concludes by giving a new culturally-orientated Jungian criticism.

The application of literary theory to Jung s works provides a new perspective on Jungian Psychology that will be of interest to anyone involved in the study of Jung, Psychoanalysis, literary theory and cultural studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Jung and Literature ('Poetry' CW15, 'Psychology and Literature' CW15, 'Ulysses' CW15).  Myth: Representing the Self in Auto/biography (Memories, Dreams, Reflections 1963/1983 and 'Answer to Job', CW11). Gender: The Dialectic of Anima and Animus (Memories, Dreams, Reflections 1963/1983, 'On Spooks' CW18, Jung's Doctoral Thesis CW1, 'Anima and Animus' CW7). Argument: Writing Beyond Tragic Science in 'On the Nature of the Psyche' (CW8). Nature: Alchemy and Ecocriticism (Psychology and Alchemy, CW12). History: Time, Space and Chronotope: (Aion, CW9ii). Culture: Ethics, Synchronicity and the Goddess ('Synchronicity', CW8, 'Kore', CW9i, 'Trickster', CW9i). Epilogue: Hamlet and Psyche.

O autorze

Susan Rowland