Archetypal and Cultural Perspectives on the Foreigner

Minorities and Monsters
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-34581-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 102 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 172 g

In this era of intense migration, the topic of the foreigner is of paramount importance. Joanne Wieland-Burston examines the question of the "foreign" and "foreigner" from multiple perspectives and explores how Jung and Freud were more interested in the wide phenomenon of the foreign in the unconscious rather than in their own personal lives. She analyses cultural approaches to the archetype of the foreigner throughout history using literary, cultural (as seen in mythological texts and fairy tales) and psychological references, and interprets the scapegoating of foreign minorities as a projection of the monster onto the foreigner. The book includes contemporary perspectives on immigration and displacement throughout, from analysing patient case material, the archetypal needs of people who join terrorist groups, feelings of alienation, and the work of Palestinian-German psychologist Ahmad Mansour. Throughout this personal and highly topical study, Wieland-Burston questions and studies C. G. Jung’s own reflections on himself as a foreigner and her own personal experiences.

This book will be vital reading for Jungian psychotherapists and analytical psychologists in practice and in training, as well as for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, archetypal studies, identity politics, and courses examining the experiences of displaced persons, refugees, migrants and minority groups.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wieland-Burston, Joanne

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

Preface

Introduction

1. Deconstructing the archetype of the foreigner

2. The archetypal experience of meeting the foreigner and being one in early cultures, mythologies and literary texts

3. Monster making/scapegoating: one way of dealing with the foreigner

4. Alienation in the modern world: feeling foreign

5. The encounter with the foreigner in the psychotherapeutic context

Postscript

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joanne Wieland-Burston is an American-born Jungian analyst who studied in Zurich, Switzerland (1977–1981) and presently practises in Munich, Germany. She is a training analyst, supervisor and instructor at the International School for Analytical Psychology in Zurich and lectures internationally. Her background is in literature and art history.