Marian Apparitions in Cultural Contexts

Applying Jungian Concepts to Mass Visions of the Virgin Mary
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-48932-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 319 g

Reihe: Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies

Marian Apparitions in Cultural Contexts provides an analysis of collective phenomena, specifically mass visions of the Virgin Mary, from a psychoanalytical perspective. It draws from Jung’s compensation theoretical model with the aim of merging depth-psychology and historical material from the Zeitoun case. Offering an original interpretation of this phenomenon from a Jungian psychological perspective, the book provides stimulating insights to any person interested in these supernatural events, whether general readers with active curiosity or scholars with broad intellectual interests.

A review of the literature points to a prevailing socio-political approach to examining visions of the Virgin Mary, while a psychoanalytical approach is generally lacking. Musso draws from Jung’s compensation theoretical model in Flying Saucers with the aim of merging depth-psychology and historical material. Common themes and symbols are extracted and interpreted from the empirical material and analyzed along with Egyptian social and political data. The book concludes with a discussion on how depth psychological principles grounded in empirical and historical material could be applied in order to explicate cases of mass visions.

An original interdisciplinary exploration of cultural phenomena, Marian Apparitions in Cultural Contexts will be of value to academics and students in the fields of psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, political science, and religious studies. This book will also be of interest among Jungian scholars and practitioners in applications of depth psychology to cultural phenomena.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Musso, Valeria Céspedes

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1: Marian Apparition Research

Chapter 2: A depth-psychological approach to the analysis of the Collective Visions

Chapter 3: Historical events surrounding the apparitions

Chapter 4: Data Sources, Description, and Elaboration

Chapter 5: Symbol Interpretation

Chapter 6: Analysis and Interpretation

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Valeria Céspedes Musso is an analyst in training at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich, Küsnacht and an independent researcher and lives in Frankfurt, Germany.