Jung as a Writer

Jung as a Writer traces a relationship between Jung and literature by analysing his texts using the methodology of literary theory. This investigation serves to illuminate the literary nature of Jung's writing in order to shed new light on his psychology and its relationship with literature as a cultural practice. Jung employed literary devices throughout his writing, including direct and indirect argument, anecdote, fantasy, myth, epic, textual analysis and metaphor. Susan Rowland examines Jung's use of literary techniques in several of his works, including Anima and Animus, On the Nature of the Psyche, Psychology and Alchemy and Synchronicity and describes Jung's need for literature in order to capture in writing his ideas about the unconscious. Jung as a Writer succeeds in demonstrating Jung's contribution to literary and cultural theory in autobiography, gender studies, postmodernism, feminism, deconstruction and hermeneutics and concludes by giving a new culturally-orientated Jungian criticism. The application of literary theory to Jung's works provides a new perspective on Jungian Psychology that will be of interest to anyone involved in the study of Jung, Psychoanalysis, literary theory and cultural studies.

ISBN 1583919023   Pages 240 ISBN13 9781583919026 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 378 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 12 May 2005   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2004027215   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY 150.1954092   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Introduction : Jung and literature		1
2		Myth : representing the self in auto/biography		24
3		Gender : the dialectic of anima and animus		49
4		Argument : writing beyond tragic science in 'On the nature of the psyche'		70
5		Nature : alchemy and ecocriticism		100
6		History : time, space and chronotope		137
7		Culture : ethics, synchronicity and the goddess		171
		Epilogue : Hamlet and Psyche		196

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