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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792518203321

Autore

Brewster Fanny

Titolo

African Americans and Jungian psychology : leaving the shadows / / Fanny Brewster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-138-95276-1

1-315-66535-2

1-317-35185-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 pages)

Disciplina

150.1954

Soggetti

Jungian psychology

African Americans - Psychology

United States ethnology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Jung's early America : racial relations and racism -- 2. The reality of racial chains and the myth of freedom -- 3. American racial black and white complexes -- 4. Africanist traditions and African American culture -- 5. African archetypal primordial : a map for Jungian psychology -- 6. Archetypal grief of African American women -- 7. The Jungian shadow -- 8. The dreamers of Saint Elizabeth Hospital -- 9. African American cultural consciousness and the Jungian collective -- 10. The promise of diversity -- 11. Summary : healing through an Africanist perspective.