Jungian Perspectives on Indeterminate States

Betwixt and Between Borders
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-33962-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

In Jungian Perspectives on Indeterminate States: Betwixt and Between Borders, Elizabeth Brodersen and Pilar Amezaga bring together leading international contributors to analyse and interpret the psychological impact of contemporary border crossing - both literally and figuratively.

Each chapter assesses key themes such as migration, culture, gender and identity formation, through a Jungian lens. All the contributors sensitively explore how creative forms can help mitigate the trauma experienced when one is forced to leave safety and enter unknown territory, and examines the specific role of indeterminacy, liminality and symbols as transformers at the border between culture, race and gender. The book asks whether we are able to hold these indeterminate states as creative liminal manifestations pointing to new forms, integrate the shadow ‘other’ as potential, and allow sufficient cross-border migration and fertilization as permissible. It makes clear that societal conflict represents a struggle for recognition and identity and elucidates the negative experiences of authoritarian structures attached to disrespect and misrecognitions.

This interdisciplinary collection will offer key insight for Jungian analysts in practice and in training, psychotherapists, anthropologists, political and cultural theorists, and postgraduate researchers in psychosocial studies. It will also be of great interest to readers interested in migration, sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brodersen, Elizabeth

Amezaga, Pilar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Crossing physical borders and the making of identity: the case of Europe. 2. Challenges to the individuation process of people on the move: developing a sense of global citizenship. 3. The Mexican-American cultural complex: assessing the depth-psychological problems due to challenges of assimilation in American society. 4. Hidden in plain sight: how therapists miss cultural trauma in trans-cultural white clients 5. Ismail is now called Ebru and Lea wants to be a mechanic: transgender and intercultural work as a municipal task 6. Child development and gender issues: symbols, creativity and alterity through sandplay therapy 7. Bernini and the Pont Sant’ Angelo. The transcendent hermaphrodite as symbol of individuation 8. Problems of symbolisation and archetypal processes: the case of male same-sex desire 9. An invisible magic circle: a Jungian commentary on When Marnie Was There 10. A Duality of the Japanese fish symbol: standing at the edge of life and death 11. Heart of Darkness: an archetypal journey to the other side 12. Re-visioning individuation: opening to a witness consciousness 13. The tension and paradox between determinate and indeterminate states: clinical, social and cultural aspects 14. The consequence of freedom: moving beyond the intermediate states of broken individualization and liquidity 15. Vulnerability and incorruptibility: an Aretaic model of the transcendent function.

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Brodersen, PhD, is an accredited Training Analyst and Supervisor at the CGJI Zürich, Switzerland. Elizabeth received her doctorate in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Essex, UK, and works as a Jungian analyst in private practice in Germany and Switzerland. She is currently Co-Chair of The International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) with Dr. Kiley Laughlin.

Pilar Amezaga, Jungian Analyst, is the Founder Member of the Uruguayan Society of Analytical Psychology and Professor at the Catholic University of Uruguay. She is currently Vice Pesident of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology.