ABSTRACT
In Jungian Perspectives on Indeterminate States: Betwixt and Between Borders, Elizabeth Brodersen and Pilar Amezaga bring together leading international contributors to analyse and interpret the psychological impact of contemporary border crossing - both literally and figuratively.
Each chapter assesses key themes such as migration, culture, gender and identity formation, through a Jungian lens. All the contributors sensitively explore how creative forms can help mitigate the trauma experienced when one is forced to leave safety and enter unknown territory, and examines the specific role of indeterminacy, liminality and symbols as transformers at the border between culture, race and gender. The book asks whether we are able to hold these indeterminate states as creative liminal manifestations pointing to new forms, integrate the shadow ‘other’ as potential, and allow sufficient cross-border migration and fertilization as permissible. It makes clear that societal conflict represents a struggle for recognition and identity and elucidates the negative experiences of authoritarian structures attached to disrespect and misrecognitions.
This interdisciplinary collection will offer key insight for Jungian analysts in practice and in training, psychotherapists, anthropologists, political and cultural theorists, and postgraduate researchers in psychosocial studies. It will also be of great interest to readers interested in migration, sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|76 pages
Border, migration, and identity
chapter Chapter 2|19 pages
Challenges to the individuation process of people on the move
chapter Chapter 3|16 pages
The Mexican-American cultural complex
chapter Chapter 4|14 pages
Hidden in plain sight
part 2|68 pages
Border phenomenology and gender
chapter Chapter 5|16 pages
Ismail is now called Ebru and Lea wants to be a mechanic
chapter Chapter 6|13 pages
Child development and gender issues
chapter Chapter 7|19 pages
Bernini and the Pont Sant’Angelo
chapter Chapter 8|18 pages
Problems of symbolisation and archetypal processes
part 3|44 pages
Liminality between borders and symbol formation
chapter Chapter 10|14 pages
Duality of the Japanese ‘fish’ symbol
part 4|72 pages
Border crossing and individuation