Possession : Jung's comparative anatomy of the psyche / Craig E. Stephenson.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.Description: xii, 188 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0415446511 (hbk.)
- 041544652X (pbk.)
- 9780415446518 (hbk.)
- 9780415446525 (pbk.)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This illuminating study, addressed both to readers new to Jung and to those already familiar with his work, offers fresh insights into a fundamental concept of analytical psychology.
Anatomizing Jung's concept of possession reinvests Jungian psychotherapy with its positive potential for practice. Analogizing the concept - lining it up comparatively beside the history of religion, anthropology, psychiatry, and even drama and film criticism - offers not a naive syncretism, but enlightening possibilities along the borders of these diverse disciplines.
An original, wide-ranging exploration of phenomena both ancient and modern, this book offers a conceptual bridge between psychology and anthropology, it challenges psychiatry to culturally contextualize its diagnostic manual, and it posits a much more fluid, pluralistic and embodied notion of selfhood.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-180) and index.
The possessions at Loudun : tracking the discourse of possession -- The anthropology of possession : studying the other -- Possession enters the discourse of psychiatry : recuperation or epistemological break? -- Reading Jung's equivocal language -- Jung's concept of possession and the practice of psychotherapy -- The suffering of Myrtle Gordon : Cassavetes's Opening night and Chaikin's open.