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:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hove ; New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Fantasy Principle makes a strong case for a new school of psychoanalysis - the school of 'imaginal psychology'. It radically affirms the centrality of imagination and emphasizes the transformative impact of images.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The fantasy principle: imaginal psychology and the dethroning of Mr Reality; 2 Compensation in the service of individuation: phenomenological essentialism and Jungian dream interpretation; 3 Jungian post-structural theory: structures versus constructs, concepts versus images; 4 Mythological knowledge: just how important is it in Jungian and Freudian analysis; 5 The "womanning" of Schreber: catastrophe, creation, and the mythopoeic forces of mankind

6 Dreaming of the Ku Klux Klan: "race," culture, and history in psychoanalysis7 Jung, Africa, and the "geopathology" of Europe: psychic place and displacement; 8 Refathering psychoanalysis, deliteralizing Hillman: imaginal therapy individual and cultural; 9 A baby is being eaten: a case of cannibalistic malpractice and suicide; 10 The importance of being blasphemous profanation versus resacralization; References; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-44752-7

1-135-44753-5

1-58391-818-3

1-280-05261-9

0-203-48376-6

9780203483763

OCLC:

475899759