Collective Structures of Imagination in Jungian Interpretation

Robert Segal, Ilona Błocian, Andrew Kuzmicki (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

12 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-46874-0 (ISBN)

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This volume explores the theoretical area of C. G. Jung's social thought (social imagery) and its contemporary interpretations in the perspective of the political conflicts phenomena, stereotypes, discrimination, consumerism, popular culture, technopolis and dysfunctions in the sense of security.

This book presents an analysis of the social aspects of Carl Gustav Jung's thought and its followers, the interpretation of the phenomena of contemporary social life (social imagery) from the perspective of the main categories of this thought (archetype, unconscious, collectivity, mass society, mass man). It also contains an attempt of their application for understanding contemporary social and political phenomena (e.g. Brazilian sebastianism, Balkan conflicts, virtual-imagery sphere of communication, figures of imagery in popular culture, and others). The authors examine the relationship between Jung’s and Jungians' (E. Neumann, J. Hillman, J. L. Henderson) conceptions and many accompanying them (e.g. Frankfurt school, Bachelard’s philosophy, American cultural psychoanalysis) and the background of contemporary social psychology, sociology, and cultural anthropology.

Professor Robert A. Segal is Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His main works include The Poimandres as Myth: Scholarly Theory and Gnostic Meaning (Berlin, 1986), Joseph Campbell: An Introduction (New York, 1987), Jung on Mythology (Princeton, 1998), Theorizing about Myth (Amherst, 1999), Myth: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2004/2015), and Myth Analyzed (London/New York, 2021). Associate Professor Ilona Błocian is Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Director of the Center of Interdisciplinary Research and Philosophy of Culture at the University of Wrocław, Poland. Her main works include The Psychoanalytical Interpretations of Myth. Freud, Jung, Fromm (Warsaw, 2011), The Contemporary Influences of C. G. Jung’s Thought (Leiden, 2018), and Imagination: Art, Science and Social World (Berlin, 2020). Dr. Andrew Kuzmicki conducts research at the International Association for Jungian Studies and writes for the Polish Online Journal of Analytical Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. His main works include The Symbolism of the Self (Warsaw, 2008) and The Contemporary Influences of C. G. Jung’s Thought (Leiden, 2018).

List of Figures

Introduction: Archetypes and Imagination

Ilona Blocian, Robert Segal, and Andrew Kuzmicki

Part 1: Collective Structures of the Unconscious

1 What Is Real?

John Beebe

2 Jung and Social Thought

Ilona Blocian

3 Interpretation Dilemmas Relating to Carl Gustav Jung's Concept in the Context of the Sociological-Anthropological Tradition

Ewa Kwiatkowska

Part 2: Social Imaginarium

4 The Lost Art of Personalization

Vicky Jo Varner

5 The Wall: Object, Image, and Processes in the Individual and Collective Psyche

Monica Luci

6 An Unconscious Source of Images: about how Bachelard Read Jung

Kamila Morawska

7 In the Quest for Temenos: Metaphors for the Origins of Serbian Cultural Complexes

Bojana Stamenkovic Rudic

8 Therapy of Shadow in Film and Literature Introductory Remarks

Maria Kostyszak

9 Archetypal Feminine in Kaxinawá's Stories: A Decolonizing Option to Jungian Approach

Hannah Hennebert

10 The Hero as a Dominant Mythical Motif in Western Culture and Its Relevance Nowadays: The Postulates of Jung and his Followers

Patrycja Neumann

11 What Only They Could See: A Comparative Analysis of Hilma af Klint's Swan Paintings and C. G. Jung's Mandala Sketches

Kathrin Schaeppi

12 Traces of Psychological Impact Found in the Drawings by Cancer Patients

Norifumi Kishimoto

13 Return to Indigenous Art Forms: Potential for Healing

Josepha Bayes-King

14 Erich Neumann's Great Mother, André Green's Dead Mother, and Ecopsychology

Lidar Shany

15 Wotan and Cocks: Reframing Jungian Sociology for the Early 21st Century

Johann Graaff

Part 3: Psychological Significance in Social Processes

16 Thinking of a Social Hierarchy as an Instinctual and Archetypal Phenomenon

Andrew Kuzmicki

17 Cultural Complex, Death Anxiety, and Individuation During the Times of Populism: A Dialogue between Jungian Psychology and Social Psychology

Helge Michael Osterhold

18 Portuguese Sebastianism as an Intersection Field between the Right and Left Political Forces in Brazilian 2018 Presidential Elections

Gustavo Orlandeli Marques

19 From Compensation to Purpose. A Neo-Jungian Critique of Horkheimer and Marcuse

Stefano Carpani

20 Mania of Contemporary Capitalism-A Polish Perspective

Michaó Wróblewski

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies ; 30
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	758 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
ISBN-10	90-04-46874-9 / 9004468749
ISBN-13	978-90-04-46874-0 / 9789004468740
Zustand	Neuware