Jung as a writer / Susan Rowland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowland, Susan, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961--Literary art.

Jung, C. G.

Psychoanalysts as authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jung as a Writer traces a relationship between Jung and literature by analysing his texts using the methodology of literary theory. This investigation serves to illuminate the literary nature of Jung's writing in order to shed new light on his psychology and its relationship with literature as a cultural practice.Jung employed literary devices throughout his writing, including direct and indirect argument, anecdote, fantasy, myth, epic, textual analysis and metaphor. Susan Rowland examines Jung's use of literary techniques in several of his works, including Anima

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Jung and literature; 2 Myth: Representing the self in auto/biography; 3 Gender: The dialectic of anima and animus; 4 Argument: Writing beyond tragic science in 'On the Nature of the Psyche'; 5 Nature: Alchemy and ecocriticism; 6 History: Time, space and chronotope; 7 Culture: Ethics, synchronicity and the goddess; Epilogue: Hamlet and Psyche; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-215) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 18, 2014).

ISBN:

1-58391-902-3

1-315-78309-6

1-317-71047-9

1-317-71048-7

9781315783093

OCLC:

865579152