ABSTRACT
What can psychotherapy and psychoanalysis teach us about turning human misery into insight and personal freedom? Polly Young-Eisendrath offers a response that opens new vistas in our understanding of ourselves within the complexity of a postmodern world.
Subject to Change is a collection of essays spanning a twenty-year period of theorising and practice of a highly regarded senior Jungian analyst. The diverse ideas and perspectives discussed in the essays deal with the big issues surrounding how Jungian analysts and psychoanalysts understand their profession and what it teaches us about our subject lives. The book is divided into four clear and informative sections:
* Subjectivity and uncertainty
* Gender and desire
* Transference and transformation
* Transcendence and subjectivity.
The classic essays presented in this book will have significant appeal to all those concerned with Jungian analysis, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, gender development, and the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |58 pages
Subjectivity and uncertainty
chapter |11 pages
The science of intentions and the intentions of science
chapter |8 pages
Struggling with Jung: the value of uncertainty
chapter |7 pages
On the difficulty of being a Jungian psychoanalyst
chapter |7 pages
Subject to change: feminism, psychoanalysis and subjectivity
chapter |8 pages
The self in analysis: a postmodern account
chapter |15 pages
Jungian constructivism and the value of uncertainty
part |62 pages
Gender and desire
chapter |12 pages
Myth and body: Pandora's legacy in a postmodern world
chapter |11 pages
Feminism and narrating female persons
chapter |16 pages
The female person and how we talk about her
chapter |6 pages
Revisiting identity
chapter |15 pages
Gender and contrasexuality: Jung's contribution and beyond
part |40 pages
Transference and transformation
part |43 pages
Transcendence and subjectivity