ABSTRACT

The Wounded Researcher addresses the crises of epistemological violence when we fail to consider that a researcher is addressed by and drawn into a work through his or her complexes. Using a Jungian-Archetypal perspective, this book argues that the bodies of knowledge we create degenerate into ideologies, which are the death of critical thinking, if the complexity of the research process is ignored. Writing with soul in mind invites us to consider how we might write down the soul in writing up our research.

part I|83 pages

Theory

chapter Chapter One|26 pages

Soul and the Complex of Psychology

chapter Chapter Two|34 pages

Re-search: Under the Spell of Orpheus

chapter Chapter Three|21 pages

An Imaginal Approach to Re-search

part II|99 pages

Process

chapter Chapter Four|27 pages

Re-search as Vocation

chapter Chapter Five|32 pages

The Transference Field between the Researcher and the Work

chapter Chapter Six|37 pages

The Transference Field: Student Examples

part III|104 pages

Method

chapter Chapter Seven|13 pages

Recovering the Soul of Method

chapter Chapter Eight|17 pages

Hermeneutics and the Circle of Understanding

chapter Chapter Nine|22 pages

Towards a Hermeneutics of Deep Subjectivity

chapter Chapter Ten|15 pages

Alchemical Hermeneutics: Part One

chapter Chapter Eleven|32 pages

Alchemical Hermeneutics: Part Two

part IV|39 pages

Implications

chapter Chapter Twelve|24 pages

Writing down the Soul

chapter Chapter Thirteen|12 pages

Towards an Ethical Epistemology

chapter |1 pages

Epilogue Letting Go of the Work