Psyche and the Arts

Does art connect the individual psyche to history and culture? Psyche and the Arts challenges existing ideas about the relationship between Jung and art, and offers exciting new dimensions to key issues such as the role of image in popular culture, and the division of psyche and matter in art form. Divided into three sections - Getting into Art, Challenging the Critical Space and Interpreting Art in the World - the text shows how Jungian ideas can work with the arts to illuminate both psychological theory and aesthetic response. Psyche and the Arts offers new critical visions of literature, film, music, architecture and painting, as something alive in the experience of creators and audiences challenging previous Jungian criticism. This approach demonstrates Jung's own belief that art is a healing response to collective cultural norms. This diverse yet focused collection from international contributors invites the reader to seek personal and cultural value in the arts, and will be essential reading for Jungian analysts, trainees and those more generally interested in the arts.

ISBN 0415438365   Pages 216 ISBN13 9780415438360 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 346 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 08 May 2008   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2007041762   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 700.19   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

1		Psyche and the artist : June and the poet by Edmund Cusick		12
Pt. I		Getting into art : Jungian (immanent) criticism		23
2		The discovery of the personal unconscious : Robinson Crusoe and modern identity by Terence Dawson		25
3		Archetypal dwelling, building individuation by Lucy Huskinson		35
4		On painting, substance and psyche by David Parker		45
5		Haruki Murakami's reimagining of Sophocles' Oedipus by Inez Martinez		56
6		Psyche, imagination and art by Bettina Reiber		66
7		How Myrtle Gordon addresses her suffering : Jung's concept of possession and John Cassavetes' Opening night by Craig Stephenson		77
8		The father, the dark child and the mob that kills him : Tim Burton's representation of the creative artist by Lena Vasileva		87
Pt. II		Challenging the critical space		97
9		Stripping bare the images by Don Fredericksen		99
10		Psyche and imagination in Goethe and Jung : or, living for love and loving life by Paul Bishop		107
11		Jung's function-attitudes in music composition and discourse by Byron Almen		117
12		Jung in the twilight zone : the psychological functions of the horror film by Angela Connolly		128
13		Writing about nothing by Leslie Gardner		139
Pt. III		Making/interpreting art in the world		149
14		The poetical word : towards an imaginal language by Elenice Giosa		151
15		Healing with the alchemical imagination in the undergraduate classroom by Lee Robbins		159
16		The serenity of the senex : using Brazilian folk tales as an alternative approach to 'entrepreneurship' in university education by Claudio Paixao and Anastacio de Paula		170
		Glossary		183
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"This book contains a number of remarkable essays, including the introduction by editor Susan Rowland. These essays make important use of Jung's psychology in their exploration of the psychic interiority of art as well as offering a 'renewed and numious space for the making, appreciation and criticism of art in our time'... I believe the essays in this book have much to contribute to the interface between Jungian concepts and the practice, appreciation and assessment of the creative arts." - Mary Dougherty, Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 54, No. 4, 2009

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