For love of the imagination : interdisciplinary applications of Jungian psychoanalysis / Michael Vannoy Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Michael Vannoy, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jungian psychology.

Imagination.

Physical Description:

xiv, 242 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

For Love of the Imagination is a book about the imagination - about what and how images mean. Jungian psychoanalysis is an imaginal psychology - or what Michael Vannoy Adams calls "imaginology," the study of the imagination. What is so distinctive - and so valuable - about Jungian psychoanalysis is that it emphasizes images. For Love of the Imagination is also a book about interdisciplinary applications of Jungian psychoanalysis. What enables these applications is that all disciplines include images of which they are more or less unconscious. Jungian psychoanalysis is in an enviable position to render these images conscious, to specify what and how they mean. On the contemporary scene, as a result of the digital revolution, there is no trendier word than "applications" - except, perhaps, the abbreviation "apps." In psychoanalysis, there is a "Freudian app" and a "Jungian app." The "Jungian app" is a technology of the imagination. This book applies Jungian psychoanalysis to images in a variety of disciplines. For Love of the Imagination also includes the 2011 Moscow lectures on Jungian psychoanalysis. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, students, and those with an interest in Jung. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Imaginal Psychology 1

1 For Love of the Imagination: Why I Became a Psychotherapist 3

2 Imaginology: The Jungian Study of the Imagination 14

3 Imaginology Overboard with a Shark and an Octopus: How to Do Things with Images that Do Things 28

4 Golden Calf Psychology: James Hilhnan Alone in Pursuit of the Imagination 72

Part II Jungian Interdisciplinary Applications 81

Cultural Applications 83

5 The Islamic Cultural Unconscious in the Dreams of a Contemporary Muslim Man 84

6 The Sable Venus on the Middle Passage: Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade 96

Economic and Political Applications 103

7 The Invisible Hand and the Economic Unconscious: The Most Important Image of the Last 250 Years 106

8 Obama and Icarus: Political Heroism, "Newspaper Mythology," and the Economic Crisis of 2008 117

Literary and Artistic Applications 139

9 Getting a Kick out of Captain Ahab: The Merman Dream in Moby-Dick 140

10 "It Was All a Mistake": Jung's Postcards to Ernest Jones and Kipling's Short Story "The Phantom 'Rickshaw" 154

11 William Blake, Visionary Art, and the Return of Odysseus: Homeric Mythology, Neoplatonic Philosophy, and Jungian Psychology 167

Part III The 2011 Moscow Lectures on Jungian Psychoanalysis 179

12 The Mythological Unconscious in Moscow: A Dream of a Russian-American Woman in New York 181

13 The Metaphor of Metamorphosis: Change in Myth and Psyche 196

14 O Baal, Hear Us: Active Imagination and the Mythological Unconscious 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780415644082

0415644089

9780415644099

0415644097

OCLC:

825647795