African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Polly Young-Eisendrath
Introduction
Chapter 1: Jung’s early America: racial relations and racism
Chapter 2: The reality of racial chains and the myth of freedom
Chapter 3: American racial Black and White complexes
Chapter 4: Africanist traditions and African American culture
	The Transference
	Feminine imagery
	Individuation: skin as culture
Chapter 5: African archetypal primordial: a map for Jungian psychology
Chapter 6: Archetypal grief of African American women
	The mirror as whole
	Defining the archetypal
	Slavery as an archetypal event
	Defining archetypal grief: mother of sorrows
	Patient case narrative: introduction
	The fragmented mirror: slavery
	The sons
	The mirror’s poor repair: Reconstruction and beyond
Chapter 7: The Jungian shadow
	Dreaming the shadow
	Personal dream
	Personal dream
	Tavistock Jungian group experience
	Carrying the Shadow
Chapter 8: The dreamers of Saint Elizabeth Hospital
	African Americans and trauma
Chapter 9: African American cultural consciousness  and the Jungian collective
	Jungian and psychoanalytical writers on racism
Chapter 10: The promise of diversity
Chapter 11: Summary: healing through an Africanist perspective
	Healing from an Africanist perspective: questions of discovery
Index