ABSTRACT
The title of this work, The Ecocritical Psyche, links it to the ongoing project of ecocriticism, which itself belongs to a much larger attempt to re-orient learning. Here is a major multidiscipliniary endeavour to address the overwhelming challenges of twenty-®rst century nature and human nature. In ®elds such as ecology, ecopsychology, ecophilosophy, environmental studies and ecocriticism, the aim is not just to describe the problem; it is also to do something about it. Can ecocriticism, fertile as it is, really change human treatment of non-human nature? This question can be put more intensely to this very text. How can one small book within that thick forest help cope with the darkness generated by centuries of repression? What is the use of (even ecologically minded) literary criticism?
