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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451222803321

Autore

Adams Michael Vannoy <1947, >

Titolo

The fantasy principle : psychoanalysis of the imagination / / Michael Vannoy Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hove ; ; New York : , : Brunner-Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-44753-5

1-58391-818-3

1-280-05261-9

0-203-48376-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Disciplina

150.19/54

Soggetti

Jungian psychology

Imagination

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The fantasy principle: imaginal psychology and the dethroning of Mr Reality; 2 Compensation in the service of individuation: phenomenological essentialism and Jungian dream interpretation; 3 Jungian post-structural theory: structures versus constructs, concepts versus images; 4 Mythological knowledge: just how important is it in Jungian and Freudian analysis; 5 The "womanning" of Schreber: catastrophe, creation, and the mythopoeic forces of mankind

6 Dreaming of the Ku Klux Klan: "race," culture, and history in psychoanalysis7 Jung, Africa, and the "geopathology" of Europe: psychic place and displacement; 8 Refathering psychoanalysis, deliteralizing Hillman: imaginal therapy individual and cultural; 9 A baby is being eaten: a case of cannibalistic malpractice and suicide; 10 The importance of being blasphemous profanation versus resacralization; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The Fantasy Principle makes a strong case for a new school of psychoanalysis - the school of 'imaginal psychology'.  It radically affirms the centrality of imagination and emphasizes the transformative



impact of images.