Post-Jungian criticism : theory and practice

Foreword by Andrew Samuels.

Foreword - Andrew Samuels. Introduction: situating Jung in contemporary critical theory - George H. Jensen. Jung's ghost stories: Jung for literary theory in feminism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism - Susan Rowland. Theorizing writerly creativity: Jung with Lacan? - Oliver Davis. Detective films and images of the Orient: a post-Jungian reflection - Luke Hockley. Airing (erring) the soul: an archetypal view of television - Keith Polette. Jane Iterare: Jane Eyre as a feminist revision of the hero's journey - Tita French Baumlin and James S. Baumlin. Pre-Raphaelite paintings and Jungian images in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White - Sophia Andres. Drs. Jung and Chekhov: physicians of the soul - Sally Porterfield. Opened ground from a Jungian perspective: the father archetype in the poetry of Seamus Heaney - J.R. Atfield. "The sun's children": shadow work in the poetry of LeRoi Jones/Imamu Amiri Baraka - Rebecca Meacham. Sharing a shadow: the image of the shrouded stranger in the works of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg - James T. Jones. In the Buddha's shadow: Jung, Zen, and the poetry of Jane Hirshfield - Andrew Elkins. A bibliography of Jungian and post-Jungian criticism, 1980-2000 - Marcia Nichols

'These essays explore, expand, critique, and apply post-Jungian critical theory as they revisit and reread Jung's own writings from numerous perspectives. No longer treated as a source of clear, unequivocal, authoritative pronouncement, Jung's writings are themselves subjected to critical, deconstructive readings, and several of the essays confront head-on Jung's evident racism, antifeminism, anti-Semitism, and political conservatism. While not downplaying such charges, the contributors outline an alternative, post-Jungian theory responsive to contemporary feminist, postcolonial, and poststructural concerns.'

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