The fantasy principle : psychoanalysis of the imagination / Michael Vannoy Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Michael Vannoy, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jungian psychology.

Imagination.

Physical Description:

xv, 252 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hove ; New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2004.

Contents:

1 The fantasy principle: imaginal psychology and the dethroning of "Mr. Reality" 1

2 Compensation in the service of individuation: phenomenological essentialism and Jungian dream interpretation 20

3 Jungian post-structural theory: structures versus constructs, concepts versus images 40

4 Mythological knowledge: just how important is it in Jungian (and Freudian) analysis? 57

5 The "womanning" of Schreber: catastrophe, creation, and the mythopoeic forces of mankind 76

6 Dreaming of the Ku Klux Klan: "race," culture, and history in psychoanalysis 131

7 Jung, Africa, and the "geopathology" of Europe: psychic place and displacement 149

8 Refathering psychoanalysis, deliteralizing Hillman: imaginal therapy, individual and cultural 169

9 A baby is being eaten: a case of cannibalistic malpractice and suicide 185

10 The importance of being blasphemous: profanation versus resacralization 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-236) and index.

ISBN:

1583918183

1583918191

OCLC:

52942900