Individuation and Liberty in a Globalized World

Psychosocial Perspectives on Freedom after Freedom
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-76896-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

What is the best way to understand the narratives of self-identity at the beginning of the 21st century? This interdisciplinary collection brings together perspectives from analytical psychology, sociology, psychiatry, psychosocial studies, and psychoanalysis to consider questions about individuation and freedom in our unhinged world.

The contributors discuss the meaning of, and need for, individuation in individualized and liquid societies. The book begins with a comparison of three approaches: C.G. Jung’s individuation, Ulrich Beck’s individualization, and Zygmunt Bauman’s liquidity. This sets the tone for further consideration of topics including guilt, social media, global nomads, and surveillance. Theoretical reflections are enhanced by clinical material, and the book emphasizes the connections between sociology and psychoanalysis, offering significant insights into the importance of psychosocial approaches.

This timely work will be of great interest to academics and scholars of psychosocial studies, Jungian studies, sociology, and politics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carpani, Stefano

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Introduction: Absolute Freedom is 'Freedom After Freedom' 1 Dreaming Your Future. Dreaming Your Freedom 2 In Defense of the Freedoms of the Self 3 The paradox of metaphor 4 The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Complex Theory and the Numinous in the Development of History (A neo-Jungian approach) 5 The Impossibility of Freedom: From Psychoanalytical Conceptions to Political Objections 6 Individuation, Textuality, and Sexuality in Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia 7 Mysterium Dissociationis: The masculine in crisis towards new forms of thought and relationship. 8 False Start: A neo-Jungian Critique of Self-Help 9 Natality, Individuation and generative social action: From amor mundi to social generativity 10‘Roots in a pot’: The identity conundrum in global nomads. 11 The Necessity of Guilt: a Freeing Movement of the Soul Towards Individuation 12 Floating and Taking root: individuation and floating in contemporary traumatic conditions 13 Paranoia, politics and the tyranny of the identical: Is there civilization in the transitions we are crossing? 14 The applicability of analytical psychology in China: how a Western psychological lens might be adapted in the East

Über Autor(innen)

Stefano Carpani, M.A., M.Phil. is an Italian sociologist (post-graduate of the University of Cambridge) and psychoanalyst who trained at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich, accredited analyst CGJI-Z/IAAP, and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytical Studies at University of Essex. He works in private practice in Berlin in English, Italian, and Spanish. He is the initiator of the YouTube interview series Breakfast at Küsnacht, which aims to capture the voices of senior Jungians. Since 2017, he has collected more than 70 interviews. He is among the initiators of Psychosocial Wednesdays, a digital salon modeled on Freud’s Wednesday meetings in Vienna and Jung’s meetings at the Psychological Club, which features speakers from various psychoanalytic traditions, schools, and associated fields. He is the author of numerous papers and edited volumes, including Breakfast at Küsnacht: Conversations on C. G. Jung and Beyond (Chiron, 2020—IAJS book award finalist, for "Best edited Book"); The Plural Turn in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies: The Work of Andrew Samuels (Routledge, 2021); Anthology of Contemporary Classics in Analytical psychology: The New Ancestors (Routledge, 2022); Lockdown Therapy: Jungian Perspectives on how the Pandemic Changed Psychoanalysis (Routledge, in print, July 2022).