| Jung as a Writer Contributor(s): Rowland, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1583919023 ISBN-13: 9781583919026 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2005 Annotation: "Jung as a Writer" traces a relationship between Jung and literature by analyzing his key text using literary criticism. An experimental writer whose radical and daring works have not yet been fully appreciated, Jung addresses the modern world darkened by weapons of mass destruction and global environmental crisis. Susan Rowland's exploration of his works illuminates 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. The book maps Jung's unique blend of artistry and ideas, imagination and ethics, speculative fantasy and cultural analysis--an "aesthetic science" which aims to overcome the divisions between art, religion and science. Jung's textual creativity provides new ways of being at home in modernity, by writing the psych whole. From early spiritualism in his doctoral thesis to the late autobiography, "Jung as a Writer" explores Jung's stunningly ambitious cultural project by looking at his writing through core themes of myth, gender, modernity, authority, argument, nature, history, discourse god(dess) and culture. Through studies of individual works such as "Anima and Animus, Trickster, On the Nature of the Psyche, Psychology and Alchemy, Aion "and "Synchronicity," Jung's contribution to literary and cultural theory in autobiography, gender studies, postmodernism, deconstruction, ecocriticism and postcolonialism, and concludes by offering a new, culturally-orientated Jungian criticism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Jungian - Psychology | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 150.195 |
| LCCN: 2004027215 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs) 236 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |