Selected Backlist Books
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Sexual Revolutions
Psychoanalysis, History and the Father
The ideas of psychoanalyst Otto Gross (1877-1920) have had a seminal influence on the development of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice and yet his work has been largely overlooked. For Freud, he was one of only two analysts ‘capable of making an original contribution' (Jung was the other)...
Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge
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House: The Wounded Healer on Television
Jungian and Post-Jungian Reflections
House MD is a globally successful and long-running medical drama. House: The Wounded Healer on Television employs a Jungian perspective to examine the psychological construction of the series and its namesake, Dr Gregory House. The book also investigates the extent to which the continued...
Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
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Cultures and Identities in Transition
Jungian Perspectives
Cultures and Identities in Transition returns to the roots of analytical psychology, offering a thematic approach which looks at personal and cultural identities in relation to Jung’s own identity and the identities of contemporary Jungians. The book begins with two clinical studies, representing...
Published March 30th 2010 by Routledge
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Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd
A Post-Jungian Perspective
Tim Burton’s films are well known for being complex and emotionally powerful. In this book, Helena Bassil-Morozow employs Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of unconscious mental processes along with film semiotics, analysis of narrative devices and cinematic history, to explore the reworking of...
Published February 7th 2010 by Routledge
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Sacral Revolutions
Reflecting on the Work of Andrew Samuels – Cutting Edges in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis
Sacral Revolutions is a unique project reflecting the contribution that Andrew Samuels has made to the general field of psychoanalysis and Jungian analysis in both clinical and academic contexts. Gottfried Heuer has brought together an international array of authors – friends and colleagues of...
Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge
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Possession
Jung's Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche
This illuminating study, addressed both to readers new to Jung and to those already familiar with his work, offers fresh insights into a fundamental concept of analytical psychology. Anatomizing Jung’s concept of possession reinvests Jungian psychotherapy with its positive potential for practice....
Published May 17th 2009 by Routledge
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Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, and Jung Volume 2
The Constellation of the Self
The second volume of Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics builds on the previous volume to show how German classicism, specifically the classical aesthetics associated with Goethe and Schiller known as Weimar classicism, was a major influence on psychoanalysis and analytical...
Published July 15th 2008 by Routledge
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Psyche and the Arts
Jungian Approaches to Music, Architecture, Literature, Painting and Film
Does art connect the individual psyche to history and culture? Psyche and the Arts challenges existing ideas about the relationship between Jung and art, and offers exciting new dimensions to key issues such as the role of image in popular culture, and the division of psyche and matter in art form....
Published May 7th 2008 by Routledge
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Jung, Irigaray, Individuation
Philosophy, Analytical Psychology, and the Question of the Feminine
How do philosophy and analytical psychology contribute to the mal-figuring of the feminine and women? Does Luce Irigaray's work represent the possibility of individuation for women, an escape from masculine projection and an affirming re-figuring of women? And what would individuation for women...
Published November 21st 2007 by Routledge
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Dire Emotions and Lethal Behaviours
Eclipse of the Life Instinct
Dire Emotions and Lethal Behaviours explores the primary motivational system in human beings. Based on the work of C. G. Jung, James Hillman, Louis Stewart and Silvan Tomkins, Charles Stewart investigates the psychology of the innate affects, with a focus towards the emotional motivation of...
Published July 25th 2007 by Routledge
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Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, and Jung, Volume 1
The Development of the Personality
In this volume, Paul Bishop investigates the extent to which analytical psychology draws on concepts found in German classical aesthetics. It aims to place analytical psychology in the German-speaking tradition of Goethe and Schiller, with which Jung was well acquainted. Analytical Psychology and...
Published July 11th 2007 by Routledge
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The Jung-White Letters
The Jung-White Letters charts fifteen years of correspondence between C. G. Jung and Victor White, an English Dominican priest and theologian. The dialogue between the two provides valuable insights into the development of Jung’s thought, and the relationship between psychology and religion. Jung...
Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge
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The Idea of the Numinous
Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
The idea of the numinous is often raised in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic contexts, but it is rarely itself subjected to close scrutiny. This volume examines how the numinous has gained currency in the post-modern world, demonstrating how the numinous is no longer confined to religious...
Published July 30th 2006 by Routledge
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Human Being Human
Culture and the Soul
Human Being Human explores the classical question 'What is a human being?' In examining our human being, Christopher Hauke challenges the notion of human nature, questions the assumed superiority of human consciousness and rational thinking and pays close attention to the contradiction of living...
Published October 26th 2005 by Routledge
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Jung as a Writer
Jung as a Writer traces a relationship between Jung and literature by analysing his texts using the methodology of literary theory. This investigation serves to illuminate the literary nature of Jung’s writing in order to shed new light on his psychology and its relationship with literature as a...
Published May 11th 2005 by Routledge
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The Spirituality Revolution
The Emergence of Contemporary Spirituality
The spiritual life is no longer a specialist concern, restricted to those who belong to religious traditions. The spirituality revolution is a spontaneous movement in society, a significant new interest in the reality of spirituality and its healing effects on life, health, community and well being...
Published February 11th 2004 by Routledge
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Jung and the New Age
Just as formal religion appears to dwindle to a minority interest, 'New Age' spirituality gathers increasing momentum and and baffles us with its popular appeal. What is more, it has appropriated Jung as one of its spiritual leaders.In his own trenchant style, David Tacey offers a theoretical and...
Published July 4th 2001 by Routledge
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Jung and Film
Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image
Jung and Film brings together some of the best new writing from both sides of the Atlantic, introducing the use of Jungian ideas in film analyis. Illustrated with examinations of seminal films including Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, and 2001 - A Space Odyssey, Chris Hauke and Ian Alister, along with...
Published June 27th 2001 by Routledge
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Jung and the Postmodern
The Interpretation of Realities
What has Jung to do with the Postmodern? Chris Hauke's lively and provocative book, puts the case that Jung's psychology constitutes a critique of modernity that brings it in line with many aspects of the postmodern critique of contemporary culture. The metaphor he uses is one in which 'we are...
Published February 23rd 2000 by Routledge
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The Inner World of Trauma
Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit
Donald Kalsched explores the interior world of dream and fantasy images encountered in therapy with people who have suffered unbearable life experiences. He shows how, in an ironical twist of psychical life, the very images which are generated to defend the self can become malevolent and...
Published November 6th 1996 by Routledge
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The Political Psyche
What can depth psychology and politics offer each other? In The Political Psyche Andrew Samuels shows how the inner journey of analysis and psychotherapy and the passionate political convictions of the outer world are linked. He brings an acute psychological perspective to bear on public themes...
Published August 11th 1993 by Routledge
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The Plural Psyche
Personality, Morality and the Father
Samuels proposes the case for pluralism in approaching key issues in depth psychology....
Published February 15th 1989 by Routledge
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A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis
The language of Jung's writings, and of analytical psychology generally, is sometimes difficult to understand. This guide, in dictionary format, combines scholarship and historical accuracy with a stimulating, critical attitude....
Published September 10th 1986 by Routledge
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Jung and the Post-Jungians
This bestseller is a comprehensive review of the developments which have taken place in Jungian psychology since Jung's death. ...
Published April 9th 1986 by Routledge