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The fantasy principle : psychoanalysis of the imagination / Michael Vannoy Adams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hove ; New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203483766
  • 9780203483763
  • 9786610052615
  • 6610052611
  • 9781583918197
  • 1583918191
  • 9781583918180
  • 1583918183
  • 1135447535
  • 9781135447533
  • 1280052619
  • 9781280052613
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fantasy principle.DDC classification:
  • 150.19/54 22
LOC classification:
  • BF173.J85 A33 2004eb
NLM classification:
  • 2004 G-588
  • WM 460
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter 1 The fantasy principle -- Imaginal psychology and the dethroning of "Mr. Reality" -- chapter 2 Compensation in the service of individuation -- Phenomenological essentialism and Jungian dream interpretation -- chapter 3 Jungian post-structural theory -- Structures versus constructs, concepts versus images -- chapter 4 Mythological knowledge -- Just how important is it in Jungian (and Freudian) analysis? -- chapter 5 The "womanning" of Schreber -- Catastrophe, creation, and the mythopoeic forces of mankind -- chapter 6 Dreaming of the Ku Klux Klan -- "Race," culture, and history in psychoanalysis -- chapter 7 Jung, Africa, and the "geopathology" of Europe -- Psychic place and displacement -- chapter 8 Refathering psychoanalysis, deliteralizing Hillman: -- Imaginal therapy, individual and cultural -- chapter 9 A baby is being eaten -- A case of cannibalistic malpractice and suicide -- chapter 10 The importance of being blasphemous -- Profanation versus resacralization.
Summary: 'The Fantasy Principle' makes a strong case for a new school of psychoanalysis - the school of 'imaginal psychology'. It radically affirms the centrality of imagination and emphasizes the transformative impact of images.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.

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'The Fantasy Principle' makes a strong case for a new school of psychoanalysis - the school of 'imaginal psychology'. It radically affirms the centrality of imagination and emphasizes the transformative impact of images.

Chapter 1 The fantasy principle -- Imaginal psychology and the dethroning of "Mr. Reality" -- chapter 2 Compensation in the service of individuation -- Phenomenological essentialism and Jungian dream interpretation -- chapter 3 Jungian post-structural theory -- Structures versus constructs, concepts versus images -- chapter 4 Mythological knowledge -- Just how important is it in Jungian (and Freudian) analysis? -- chapter 5 The "womanning" of Schreber -- Catastrophe, creation, and the mythopoeic forces of mankind -- chapter 6 Dreaming of the Ku Klux Klan -- "Race," culture, and history in psychoanalysis -- chapter 7 Jung, Africa, and the "geopathology" of Europe -- Psychic place and displacement -- chapter 8 Refathering psychoanalysis, deliteralizing Hillman: -- Imaginal therapy, individual and cultural -- chapter 9 A baby is being eaten -- A case of cannibalistic malpractice and suicide -- chapter 10 The importance of being blasphemous -- Profanation versus resacralization.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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