The dove in the consulting room : hysteria and the anima in Bollas and Jung / Greg Mogenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mogenson, Greg, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jungian psychology.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xiv, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hove ; New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

Psychoanalysis began over a century ago as a treatment for hysteria and it has recently turned its attention to hysteria once again. Provocative and original, The Dove in the Consulting Room engages critically with psychoanalysis -- and in particular with the phenomenon of hysteria's return to analysis -- from a Jungian perspective. Drawing on the works of Jung, Freud, Hillman, Giegerich, Bollas, and others, the author provides a lively and compelling Jungian analysis of analysis itself - both Freudian and Jungian. The Dove in the Consulting Room is illuminating reading for the professional analyst and for anyone interested in the spiritual and cultural importance of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.

Contents:

Introduction: Hysteron proteron 1

1 "That Girl" 17

Leda and the analyst 17

Anima hystericus 20

Petticoats and snake-skins 26

2 Sex and Religion 30

Of mud ... of occultism 30

Spiritus sexualis 34

Fading symbols, falling stars 39

The star below the stable 40

3 Nega-Nativity 42

Modernity's manger 42

The phallus of denial 45

Phallic mother-phallic child 48

Elephantiasis 49

Thor in the nursery 52

The erotics of absence 54

4 The Dove in the Consulting Room 59

Annunciation 59

Keeping the Sabbath 62

Ave Maria 63

The dove in the consulting room 67

5 Listening Cure 71

Listening with Mary's ear 71

Out of the mouths of babes 74

Regression deliteralized 78

6 Speech and Language in Analytical Psychology 83

Complex, acoustic image, Holy Ghost 83

Phonetic spirit 87

Holy Ghost 92

7 My Fair Hysteria 96

Why can't a woman be more like a man? 96

Jung's Eliza 98

Being a Higgins 102

Psychic genera and the soul of things 104

The professor's mother-complex 108

Mysterium hystericum 109

Questions of truth 110

St Bernard's prayer 112

Abrogating the complex 114

8 Voicing the Weather Oracle 119

Speaking out 119

Stormy weather 121

Suffering psyche 124

Oedipus at Delphi 131

9 The Jungian Thing 139

What is a thing presentation? 139

The amazing mirror-thing 143

Presentation and representation 146

Hosea and the prostitute 149

Symbolic life 152

10 The Advent of the Notion 159

Sublating the covenant 159

The advent of the notion 167

Releasing psychology 171

Storks' nests, neologisms, kenosis, and negativity 177

Negativizing phylogenesis in the vessel of hysteria 181

Negativizing the vessel 184

Christopher and Christ, the soul's child and the dove 188

Final Thoughts: The status of hysteria in the vision of psychology 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-223) and index.

ISBN:

1583912584

1583912592

OCLC:

50604921