Cultures and Identities in Transition: Jungian Perspectives

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Cultures and Identities in Transition returns to the roots of analytical psychology, offering a thematic approach which looks at personal and cultural identities in relation to Jung’s own identity and the identities of contemporary Jungians. The book begins with two clinical studies, representing a meeting point between the traditional praxis of Jungian analysis, on the one side, and the current zeitgeist, world events and collective anxieties as impacting on persons in therapy, on the other. An international range of expert contributors go on to discuss topics including: issues of national and personal identity – looking back to a shared history and forward to novel applications of Jungian ideas. Jung’s cross-disciplinary dialogues with Victor White. what the designation "Jungian" actually means. Based on papers given at the joint IAAP and IAJS conference held in Zurich in 2008, this book will be essential reading for all Jungians. Book Cover Title Copyright Contents Contributors Editors’ introduction Chapter 1 ‘Something wrong with the world’: Towards an analysis of collective paranoia Chapter 2 The emergence of Moby Dick in the dreams of a five-year-old boy Chapter 3 ‘Wotan’ – a political myth of the German collective unconscious: Three debates of shadow aspects of the collective identities of Germans and Jews in the Germany of National Socialism Chapter 4 ‘Bubbe Mayseh’ (the archetype of grandparents), or: Me and my grandparents – stories and history Chapter 5 Archetypal patterns in postmodern identity construction: A cultural approach Chapter 6 Creativity and art as part of the elaboration of trauma brought on by slavery Chapter 7 Traditional Coastal Sami healers in transition Chapter 8 Daughters of the devil: Feminine subjectivity and the female vampire Chapter 9 Jung’s art Chapter 10 Jung: Rebuilding the temple Chapter 11 In the end it all comes to nothing: The basis of identity in non-identity Chapter 12 Social (collective) unconsciousness and mythic scapegoating Chapter 13 The changing images of God: An anticipatory appraisal of the Jung/White encounter Chapter 14 Jung and White on Gnosticism Chapter 15 Types of Thomists: Victor White’s use of Aquinas as exemplar of a dialectical synthesis Chapter 16 Bridge, amalgam, paper clip: A brief typology Chapter 17 Reflections on the word ‘Jungian’ Chapter 18 Jungian psychology in Japan: Between mythological world and contemporary consciousness Chapter 19 Arguments in favour of a Jungian hermeneutic of suspicion Index