Traumatic Loss and Recovery in Jungian Studies and Cinema

Transdisciplinary Approaches in Grief Theory
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-27415-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

This book explores traumatic loss, grief, and recovery through the thoughtful combination of Abraham & Torok’s ‘crypt’ theory, Jungian thought, and film theory to guide readers through the darkest places of the human psyche.

Focusing on both the destructive and reconstructive choices people can make, the book explores prolonged grief disorder, complicated mourning, post-traumatic stress disorder, embitterment, disenfranchised grief, trauma-related rumination as well as mental, emotional and physical pain. Presented with real life examples and fictional ones, the book connects the psychoanalytic concepts of intrapsychic tomb and theoretra with Jungian concepts such as teleological model of the psyche, dreams, alchemical operations, shadow, archetypes, enantiodromia, symbols, and compensation on the canvas of modern grief theory.

Traumatic Loss and Recovery in Jungian Studies and Cinema is important reading for psychoanalysts, Jungian analysts, and psychotherapists with an interest in popular culture, as well as cinema students, scholars, and general readers interested in psychology, counselling, mental health and media studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holmwood, Mark

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART 1: From the past to the present 1. A brief history of grief theory 2. A brief look at the intersections of psychoanalysis, film theory, and Jungian studies 3. New perspectives in mental health through film analysis PART II: Tales of loss and recovery 4. Suicide and Solaris 5. Murder and The Brave One 6. Nihilism and The Bank 7. Human connection and A Single Man 8. Letting go and Saving Mr. Banks 9. Forgiveness and Rabbit Hole 10. Self-compassion and Cake Further examples and concluding thoughts

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Holmwood, PhD, is a researcher, author, and photographer. Following his MA and training in TA Counselling and Psychotherapy, he creatively combined his grief experience, clinical theory, cinema, and Jungian thought for this book.