Cultures and identities in transition: Jungian perspectives

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 includi.

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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 approachChapter 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 encounterChapter 14 Jung and White on G…