The father, the dark child and the mob that kills him: Tim Burton’s representation of the creative artist

Analytical Psychology has always had a very special relationship with image: it has believed in its power. Indeed, throughout the entire postmodern era of simulacra, when images are said to have lost their potency, Jungian psychologies kept stubbornly insisting that there was more to image than high recyclability and bone-rattling immediacy. Risking appearing old-fashioned, post-Jungians have been looking for depth and meaning in what was commonly seen as just a sum of ‘emptinesses’ and ghost reflections – popular culture.