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Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies

About the Book Series

Series Advisor: Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, Essex University, UK.

The Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies series features research-focused volumes involving qualitative and quantitative research, historical/archival research, theoretical developments, heuristic research, grounded theory, narrative approaches, collaborative research, practitioner-led research, and self-study. The series also includes focused works by clinical practitioners, and provides new research informed explorations of the work of C.G. Jung that will appeal to researchers, academics, and scholars alike.

28 Series Titles


Towards a Jungian Theory of the Ego

Towards a Jungian Theory of the Ego

1st Edition

By Karen Evers-Fahey
January 12, 2018

Despite their prevalence and weight in many of his collected works and letters, Jung did not articulate a general theory of the ego and consciousness. Towards a Jungian Theory of the Ego examines the development of Jung’s concept of the ego as he expanded and revised this concept, from his earliest...

Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali

Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali

1st Edition

By Leanne Whitney
January 08, 2018

The East-West dialogue increasingly seeks to compare and clarify contrasting views on the nature of consciousness. For the Eastern liberatory models, where a nondual view of consciousness is primary, the challenge lies in articulating how consciousness and the manifold contents of consciousness are...

Eros and Economy Jung, Deleuze, Sexual Difference

Eros and Economy: Jung, Deleuze, Sexual Difference

1st Edition

By Barbara Jenkins
January 03, 2018

Eros and Economy: Jung, Deleuze, Sexual Difference explores the possibility that social relations between things, partially inscribed in their aesthetics, offer important insights into collective political-economic relations of domination and desire. Drawing on the analytical psychology of Carl ...

Jung and Levinas An ethics of mediation

Jung and Levinas: An ethics of mediation

1st Edition

By Frances Gray
December 21, 2017

This book brings C.G. Jung into conversation with the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, taking a radical view of post-modernist theory which, the author argues, is relentlessly introverted. Frances Gray presents completely new research which extends analytical psychology into the world of ...

Music as Image Analytical psychology and music in film

Music as Image: Analytical psychology and music in film

1st Edition

By Benjamin Nagari
December 21, 2017

Through a theoretical and practical exploration of Jungian and post-Jungian concepts surrounding image, this book moves beyond the visual scope of imagery to consider the presence and expression of music and sound, as well as how the psyche encounters expanded images – archetypal, personal or ...

Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut Golden Apples of the Monkey House

Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut: Golden Apples of the Monkey House

1st Edition

By S.G. Ellerhoff
December 21, 2017

In this book, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff explores short stories by Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut, written between 1943 and 1968, with a post-Jungian approach. Drawing upon archetypal theories of myth from Joseph Campbell, James Hillman and their forbearer C. G. Jung, Ellerhoff demonstrates how short ...

Symptom, Symbol, and the Other of Language A Jungian Interpretation of the Linguistic Turn

Symptom, Symbol, and the Other of Language: A Jungian Interpretation of the Linguistic Turn

1st Edition

By Bret Alderman
December 21, 2017

Every statement about language is also a statement by and about psyche. Guided by this primary assumption, and inspired by the works of Carl Jung, in Symptom, Symbol, and the Other of Language, Bret Alderman delves deep into the symbolic and symptomatic dimensions of a deconstructive postmodernism ...

Laws of Inheritance A post-Jungian study of twins and the relationship between the first and other(s)

Laws of Inheritance: A post-Jungian study of twins and the relationship between the first and other(s)

1st Edition

By Elizabeth Brodersen
April 11, 2017

Instilled in interdisciplinary cross-cultural perspectives of mythical, socio-economic, literary, pedagogic and psychoanalytic representations, two archetypal, creative inheritance laws interact as ‘twins’: Eros (fusion/containment/safety) and Thanatos (division/separation/risk). Hypothesising ...

The Alchemical Mercurius Esoteric symbol of Jung’s life and works

The Alchemical Mercurius: Esoteric symbol of Jung’s life and works

1st Edition

By Mathew Mather
January 27, 2017

The figure of the alchemical Mercurius features ubiquitously and radically in Jung’s later works, but despite this, there has been little research concerning Mercurius in Jungian studies to date. In this book, Mathew Mather explores the figure of the alchemical Mercurius and contextualises and ...

Apophatic Elements in the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis Pseudo-Dionysius and C.G. Jung

Apophatic Elements in the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Pseudo-Dionysius and C.G. Jung

1st Edition

By David Henderson
December 20, 2016

How can the psychotherapist think about not knowing? Is psychoanalysis a contemplative practice? This book explores the possibility that there are resources in philosophy and theology which can help psychoanalysts and psychotherapists think more clearly about the unknown and the unknowable. The ...

Archetypal Psychotherapy The clinical legacy of James Hillman

Archetypal Psychotherapy: The clinical legacy of James Hillman

1st Edition

By Jason A. Butler
December 20, 2016

Archetypal psychology is a post-Jungian mode of theory and practice initiated primarily through the prolific work of James Hillman. Hillman’s writing carries a far-reaching collection of evocative ideas with a wealth of vital implications for the field of clinical psychology. With the focus on ...

Bridges to Consciousness Complexes and complexity

Bridges to Consciousness: Complexes and complexity

1st Edition

By Nancy M. Krieger
December 20, 2016

This book investigates consciousness as an emergent state arising from the global functioning of the brain and the body. In this research Krieger applies these concepts to analytical psychology, particularly to the constellation of the complex and of the archetype. Global brain functioning is ...

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