C.G.Jung and Literary Theory

C.G. Jung and Literary Theory remedies a significant omission in literary studies by doing for Jung and poststructuralist literary theories what has been done extensively for Freud, Lacan and post-Freudian psychoanalysis. This work represents a complete departure from traditional Jungian literary criticism. Instead, radically new Jungian literary theories are developed of deconstruction, feminist theory, gender and psyche, the body and sexuality, spirituality, postcolonialism, historicism and reader-response. As well as linking Jung to the work of Derrida, Kristeva and Irigaray, the book traces contentious occult, cultural and political narratives in Jung's career. It contains a chapter on Jung and fascism in a literary context.

ISBN 0333747208   Pages 248 ISBN13 9780333747209 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 495 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Height (mm) 222 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 144 Publication date 26 Apr 1999   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY 801.92   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Acknowledgements
		Abbreviations
		Introduction: Beyond Traditional Jungian Literary Criticism		1
1		Jung for Literature and Literary Theory		9
2		Jung: Political, Cultural and Historical Context		39
3		A Jungian Reader Theory: Alchemy and The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke		60
4		Jung and Feminist Narrative: Romantic Virgins in the Early Novels of Michele Roberts		84
5		Hysterical Jung: Michele Roberts' The Book of Mrs. Noah and In the Red Kitchen		114
6		Jung, Literature and Fascism: Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley		141
7		(Post) Colonial Jung: Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos		165
8		C. G. Jung and Literary Theory		188
		Notes		202
		Bibliography		218
		Glossary		225
		Index		231

'At last Jung, immensely fruitful Jung, is being connected with contemporary literary theory and writing. About time! Susan Rowland's astute and incisive study bridges all sorts of gaps that needed bridging. And as a plus, she brings all sorts of new insights into two unlikely bedfellows but equally wonderful writers, Doris Lessing and Michele Roberts.' - Nicole Ward Jouve 'Just as feminist thought made Freud newly useful for a much wider range of thought and literature, Susan Rowland's book is an important step in opening up Jung's thought for gender-aware criticism. It combines a thoughtful and unpolemic account of the misogyny of Jung's theory together with lucid recuperation of the theory to redress the patriarchal constructions of women and to produce a site for feminist theory in the creation of culture.' - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool

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