Post-Jungian criticism : theory and practice / edited by James S. Baumlin, Tita French Baumlin, George H. Jensen ; foreword by Andrew Samuels.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baumlin, James S.

Baumlin, Tita French.

Jensen, George H.

Series:

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Psychology and literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 318 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rereads Jung in light of contemporary theoretical concerns, and offers a variety of examples of post-Jungian literary and cultural criticism. This groundbreaking collection brings the range and diversity of post-Jungian thought into the realm of contemporary literary and cultural criticism. These essays explore, expand, critique, and apply post-Jungian critical theory as they revisit and reread Jung's own writings from numerous perspectives. No longer treated as a source of clear, unequivocal, authoritative pronouncement, Jung's writings are themselves subjected to critical, deconstructive readings, and several of the essays confront head-on Jung's evident racism, antifeminism, anti-Semitism, and political conservatism. While not downplaying such charges, the contributors outline an alternative, post-Jungian theory responsive to contemporary feminist, postcolonial, and poststructural concerns. The result is not just a critical reinterpretation but, more important, a regeneration of Jungian thought. James S. Baumlin , Tita French Baumlin , and George H. Jensen are Professors of English at Southwest Missouri State University. James S. Baumlin is the author of John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance Discourse ; the coeditor (with Tita French Baumlin) of Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory ; and (with Phillip Sipiora) of Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis , also published by SUNY Press. George H. Jensen is the author of many books, including, most recently, Identities Across Texts .

Contents:

Intro

Post-Jungian Criticism

CONTENTS

FOREWORD by ANDREW SAMUELS

Introduction: Situating Jung in Contemporary Critical Theory by GEORGE H. JENSEN

Jung's Ghost Stories: Jung for Literary Theory in Feminism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodernism by SUSAN ROWLAND

Theorizing Writerly Creativity: Jung with Lacan? by OLIVER DAVIS

Detective Films and Images of the Orient: A Post-Jungian Reflection by LUKE HOCKLEY

Airing (Erring) the Soul: An Archetypal View of Television by KEITH POLETTE

Jane Iterare: Jane Eyre as a Feminist Revision of the Hero's Journey by TITA FRENCH BAUMLIN AND JAMES S. BAUMLIN

Jungian Insights into Victorian Cultural Ambiguities: Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White by SOPHIA ANDRES

Drs. Jung and Chekhov: Physicians of the Soul by SALLY PORTERFIELD

Opened Ground from a Jungian Perspective: The Father Archetype in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney by J. R. ATFIELD

"The Sun's Children": Shadow Work in the Poetry of LeRoi Jones/Imamu Amiri Baraka by REBECCA MEACHAM

Sharing a Shadow: The Image of the Shrouded Stranger in the Works of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg by JAMES T. JONES

In the Buddha's Shadow: Jung, Zen, and the Poetry of Jane Hirshfield by ANDREW ELKINS

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JUNGIAN AND POST-JUNGIAN LITERARY CRITICISM, 1980-2000 by MARCIA NICHOLS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7914-8573-0

OCLC:

57663835