ABSTRACT
In this book, a multidisciplinary and international selection of Jungian clinicians and academics discuss some of the most compelling issues in contemporary politics.
Presented in five parts, each chapter offers an in-depth and timely discussion on themes including migration, climate change, walls and boundaries, future developments, and the psyche. Taken together, the book presents an account of current thinking in their psychotherapeutic community as well as the role of practitioners in working with the results of racism, forced relocation, colonialism, and ecological damage.
Ultimately, this book encourages analysts, scholars, psychotherapists, sociologists, and students to actively engage in shaping current and future political, socio-economic, and cultural developments in this increasingly complex and challenging time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |9 pages
Introduction
part Section 1|34 pages
Leaders, led, migration
chapter Chapter 1|7 pages
Extinction anxiety
chapter Chapter 2|11 pages
Relationship with authority
chapter Chapter 3|14 pages
Racial awareness in analysis
part Section 2|24 pages
Ecological and other crises
chapter Chapter 4|5 pages
When fathers are made absent by tortures, wars, and migrations
chapter Chapter 5|10 pages
The Garden of Heart & Soul
part Section 3|31 pages
Migration, refugees, walls, bridges
part Section 4|58 pages
Histories and futures
chapter Chapter 9|17 pages
Environments of the self, world crises as initiation, and the telos of collective individuation
chapter Chapter 10|14 pages
The Japanese psyche reflected in the suppression and transformation of “Hidden Christians” in feudal Japan
chapter Chapter 11|18 pages
History, the orphan of our time, or the timeless stories that make up history
part Section 5|48 pages
Psyche in political context