Jung and the Postmodern

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Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Andrew Samuels
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Getting re-housed
	Coming home
	Post-Jungians and the postmodern: the story so far
	(Home on) The postmodern range
	Reading this book
1 Why postmodern?
	Modern and postmodern
	Jung and the limitations of Enlightenment rationality
	Daniel Bell and Peter Homans: modernity, capitalism and the Protestant psychologic
	Fredric Jameson: 'history' and nostalgia
	Jean Baudrillard: image and simulacrum
2 Freud and Jung: the analysis of the individual and the collective
	Habermas and the incomplete project of modernity
	Freud and modernity: post-Freudian social analysis and post-Jungian critique
	A comparison of some of the concepts of Freud and Jung
3 Consciousness consciousing: individuation and/under postmodern conditions
	Princess Diana and the 'death' of the subject
	Temporality, spatiality and our need for maps – Jameson's route towards individuation?
	Affirming consciousness: beyond good and evil postmoderns
4 Frank Gehry's house and Carl Jung's Tower
	Buildings, modernists and post-modernism
	Charles Jencks on defining the postmodern in architecture (and elsewhere)
	Modern, late-modern, postmodern or what?
	Philip Johnson, Nietzsche, transvaluation and aesthetics
	Peter Eisenman, psychoanalysis and nostalgia
	Frank Gehry's house
	Carl Jung's Tower
	Concluding remarks and other points of view
5 Postmodern gender: masculine, feminine and the other
	Dealing with the essential
	The gender paradigm
	Postmodern sex, postmodern gender
	Julia Kristeva, the abject and the lapis
	The shadow, the other, projection and the semiotic
	The failure of the goddesses
	The use of myths: French feminists, Jung and clinical work
6 Jung, Nietzsche and the roots of the postmodern
	Nietzsche and German thought at the end of the nineteenth century
	The deposing of the subject
	Pluralism, perspectivism and complexes
	Genealogy and 'history'
	The Ubermensch and individuation
7 Nietzsche, power and the body, or, Jung and the post-hysteric
	At the Salpêtrière
	The will to power
	Hysteria and the body
	Jung and the stage-management of hysterical symptoms
	Self-overcoming, individuation and Telos
8 Image, sign, symbol: representation and the postmodern
	Meaning
	'Semiotic' and 'symbolic'
	Structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction; plus the social construction of reality
	Image, imago, word: imagination and language
	Knowing and the unknown: ancient wisdom and modern representation
	The Subject, the Other and the necessity of the Unknown
	The postmodern meaning of 'meaning'
9 Affect and modernity
	Death and sex
	Charles Darwin, William James and the theorising of emotion
	Repression, the complex and affects
	The Life and Death of Affect as an Object
	The hybrid, perspectives and the object of psychotherapy
10 Mind and matter: Jungian and postmodern science
	Postmodern science: reading the data
	Other science
	The Unus Mundus: archetypes, the psychoid and synchronicity
	The link with alchemy
	Psychotherapy, empathy and psi phenomena
11 'I'm OK, you're mad': sanity, psychosis and community
	The psychiatrist
	The scope of rationality
	Multiple orderings of reality: Levy-Bruhl, Wittgenstein, Peirce and Schutz
	Archetypal psychology and the necessity of abnormal psychology
	Madness in context: an anthropological case of psychotic breakdown
12 'The gods are with us. And they want to play'
	The paintings of David Salle
References
Index