Animus, Psyche and Culture: A Jungian Revision

CONTENTS
FIGURES
TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
	The Place of Culture
	Encountering the Other
	Bridging Psyche and Culture
	Some Examples
	FIGURE 1.1
	Cultural Other
	FIGURE 1.2
	FIGURE 1.3
	FIGURE 1.4
	Tensions of Race and Culture
	Cultural Immersions
	Of Narratives and Interpretations
	Notes
	References
THE ANIMUS
	A Little Book
	The Problem of the Animus
	Post-Jungian Critiques
	From Archetypal to Transdisciplinary
	Feminine Histories
	Multiplicity of the Feminine, Weaving Inner and Outer
	Notes
	References
PHOOLAN
	Bone and Marrow
	Red Soil, a River, Neem Tree and Knife-Blade – The Flowering of Rage
	Terror Grounds
	The Other – Social and Psychological Threads
	Dualities, Dissensions, Intersexuality and Feminine Otherness
	FIGURE 3.1
	Note
	References
THE CLAY GODDESS
	Cultural Tensions in Postcolonial Thought
	The Archaic
	Cultural Particulars
	Durga, Dopdi and Fierce Narratives of the Feminine
	FIGURE 4.1
	Dionysian Reversals and Radical Diversities in the Feminine
	Notes
	References
SYNCHRONICITY
	Synchronicity and Jung
	Webbed Fields
	Acausal Cultural Links
	Cultural Synchronicities
	Trajectories of Knowledge
	Location of Culture
	FIGURE 5.1
	References
	The Firmament of Becoming
	Oppositions and Unities
	FIGURE 6.1
	Cultural Correspondences
	The Self-Organizing Psyche
	Jung’s Stages of Life
	Four Stages of Life in Indian Religious Thought
	Ashrama and Jung’s Stages of Life – A Comparative View
	Bluebeard Man – Vital Initiations
	Christian Evangelism in a Hindu Heartland
	Amor Dei, Amor Proximi
	FIGURE 6.2
	References
	FIGURE 6.3
CONCLUSION
	Tracing the Animus
	Contextualizing the Animus
	Feminine Emancipatory Journeys
	FIGURE 7.1
	Archetypal, Personal and Collective
	The Significance or Insignificance of the Archetypal
	Psychological and Cultural Elements of the Animus
	References
INDEX