Collective Structures of Imagination in Jungian Interpretation (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, 30)

Contents
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Contributors
Introduction: Archetypes and Imagination
	1 Philosophical, Anthropological, and Social Aspects of the Main Notions in Jung’s Conception
	2 Empirical Aspects of the Unconscious Conception
	3 The Situation of a Modern Individual
Part 1 Collective Structures of the Unconscious
1 Why Is This Real?
	Abstract
	Keywords
2 Archetypal Patterns of Imagination: Social Imaginaries
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Jung and Social Writings
		1.1 Ideae Principlales, Archetypal Forms, Archetypal Light, Intellectus Archetypus
		1.2 Instinct, Pattern of Behavior
		1.3 Categories of Collective Imagination, Représentations Collectives, Mentalité Pre-logique, Elementary Ideas
		1.4 Evolutions of Archetype Notion in Jung’s Writings
	2 Archetype and Civilization: Unconscious and Imaginary
	3 Summation
3 Interpretation Dilemmas Relating to Carl Gustav Jung’s Concept
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 C.G. Jung’s Concept in the Light of the Tradition of the French School of Sociology, Lévi-Strauss’ Criticism, and Sociology of Religion
	2 The Iconic versus Linguistic Interpretation of the Unconscious
		2.1 The Psychoanalytical Approach to the Image and the Modern Dispute over Images
Part 2 Social Imaginarium
4 The Lost Art of Personification
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 The Rise and Fall of Personification
	3 Iconoclasm versus Personification
	4 Icons as Symbolic Imagery
	5 Imagery as an Inner Focus
	6 Protestantism and Iconoclasm
	7 The Survival of the Misericords
	8 Opposition to the Grotesque
	9 Psychomachia as Personification
	10 Modern Personification
	11 Conclusion
5 The Wall: Object, Image, and Processes in the Individual and Collective Psyche
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Ideological Walls
		2.1 The Berlin Wall
		2.2 The Korean Wall
	3 Walls of Territorial Contention
		3.1 Cyprus’ Green Line
		3.2 The Sand Wall of the Western Sahara
	4 Anti-terrorism Walls
		4.1 Israel
		4.2 Baghdad Walls
	5 Segregation Walls
		5.1 Northern Ireland Peace Lines
		5.2 Indian Walls
	6 Anti-immigration Walls
		6.1 Ceuta and Melilla
		6.2 USA–Mexico Wall
	7 Reflections from Analytical Psychology
6 An Unconscious Source of Images: About How Bachelard Read Jung
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 The World of Images
	2 Four Elements of Imagination
	3 Jung and Bachelard
	4 Going beyond Jungism
7 In the Quest for Temenos: Metaphors for the Origins of Serbian Cultural Complexes
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Limes
	3 The Home
	4 Temenos
	5 Trickster
	6 Hermes
	7 Conclusion
8 Therapy of Shadow in Film and Literature: Introductory Remarks
	Abstract
	Key words
	1 Powerful and Sensitive Women in Contemporary Contexts
	2 Olga Tokarczuk’s Transfugium
	3 Svetlana Alexijewicz’s Voices of Chernobyl Prayer: The Chronicle of the Future
	4 Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor (in Polish: Pokot, 2017)
	5 Tom Tykwer’s Heaven (2002)
	6 Conclusions
9 Archetypal Feminine in Kaxinawá’s Stories: A Decolonizing Option to Jungian Approach
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Who Are the Kaxinawá?
	3 The Story of the Origin of Remedies from the Woods
	4 The Kaxinawá Goddess Yushã Kuru
	5 Archetypes
	6 The Archetypal Feminine
	7 An Explanation of the Meaning of the Word “Myth”
	8 Conclusion
10 The Hero as a Dominant Mythical Motif in Western Culture and Its Relevance
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 The Hero as a Dominant Mythical Motif in Western Culture
11 What Only They Could See: A Comparative Analysis of Hilma af Klint’s
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Arriving at the Occult
	3 The Swan Series and Mandala Sketches
	4 The Alchemical Bond
	5 One: Initial Wholeness
	6 Two: Opposites Meet
	7 Two: Union of the Opposites
	8 Three: Creation of the Uniting Symbol
	9 Three and Birth of the Fourth: Integration of the Uniting Symbol
	10 Four: The New Birth/Totality/Self-Symbol
	11 Conclusion
12 Traces of Psychological Impact Found in the Drawings by Cancer Patients
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 The Baumtest
	3 The Case of Mrs. White
	4 Möbius Tree
	5 A Hole in the Psyche
	6 The Case of Mr. Land
	7 The Case of Mrs. Light
	8 Death and Rebirth
	9 Conclusion
13 Return to Indigenous Art Forms: Potential for Healing
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 The Individual and the Collective
	3 Professional Dancers
	4 Dance as an Important Form of Communication
	5 Evolution of Dance from Communication to Celebration
	6 Diversity within Australia
	7 Loss of Soul in Indigenous Males
	8 We Al-Li
	9 Conclusion
14 Erich Neumann’s Great Mother, André Green’s Dead Mother, and Ecopsychology
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 An Overview of Neumann’s Formulation of Archetypal Development
	3 Neumann’s Theory about Mankind’s Relationship with Earth
	4 Neumann’s Concept of the Primary Relationship and the Earth Archetype
	5 André Green’s Dead Mother Complex
	6 The Wounds
	7 Conclusion
15 Wotan and Cocks: Reframing Jungian Sociology for the Early 21st Century
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Geertz: Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
	3 Jung: Wotan
	4 By Way of Comparison
		4.1 Levels of Empirical Focus
		4.2 Talking Durkheim and the Rules of Sociological Method
		4.3 Influences from the Völkisch Movement
	5 Problems with “Wotan”
	6 Conclusion
Part 3 Psychological Significance in Social Processes
16 Thinking of a Social Hierarchy as an Instinctual and Archetypal Phenomenon
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Why Talk about the Hierarchization Process in a Society?
	2 Images Associated with the Concept of a Social Hierarchy
	3 Innate Tendencies to Create a Social Structure
	4 More Complex Instinctual Behaviors
	5 Archetypes and a Social Structure
	6 Static versus Dynamic
	7 A Social Hierarchy and the Figure of the King
	8 Other Natural Hierarchization Factors—Pareto Distribution
	9 Gini Coefficient
		9.1 Shall We Then Critically Discuss the Social Structure and the Wealth Distribution?
17 Cultural Complex, Death Anxiety, and Individuation during the Times of Populism
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Populism and Polarization
	3 Individuation and the Problem of Mass Mentality in Jungian Thought
	4 Cultural Unconscious and Cultural Complexes
	5 Terror Management Theory: Death Anxiety and Intergroup Dynamics
	6 Possibilities and Directions: A Dialogue between Depth Psychology and Social Psychology
	7 Conclusion
18 Portuguese Sebastianism as an Intersection Field between the Right
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Don Sebastian: “O Desejado” (“The Expected One”)
	3 Sebastianism in Brazil
	4 Unmasking Don Sebastian
	5 Listening for Don Sebastian’s Voice
19 From Compensation to Purpose: A Neo-Jungian Critique of Horkheimer and Marcuse
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Horkheimer and Psychoanalysis: In Search for Happiness and High Standard of Living
	2 Marcuse and “Neo-Freudian Revisionism”: An Overview
20 Mania of Contemporary Capitalism: A Polish Perspective
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Culture Psychology: A Polish Perspective
	2 Negative Inflation
	3 Inflationary Patterns of Capitalism
	4 From Percept-Culture to Imagopathy
	5 Academic Psychology as a Handmaid of Neoliberal Ideology
	6 Pessimistic Diagnosis of Our Time
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