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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806896203321

Autore

Rowland Susan <1962, >

Titolo

Jung as a writer / / Susan Rowland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-58391-902-3

1-315-78309-6

1-317-71047-9

1-317-71048-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (434 p.)

Disciplina

150.19/54/092

150.1954092

Soggetti

Psychoanalysts as authors

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 (pages [212]-215) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Jung and literature; 2 Myth: Representing the self in auto/biography; 3 Gender: The dialectic of anima and animus; 4 Argument: Writing beyond tragic science in 'On the Nature of the Psyche'; 5 Nature: Alchemy and ecocriticism; 6 History: Time, space and chronotope; 7 Culture: Ethics, synchronicity and the goddess; Epilogue: Hamlet and Psyche; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 cultural practice.Jung employed literary devices throughout his writing, including direct and indirect argument, anecdote, fantasy, myth, epic, textual analysis and metaphor. Susan Rowland examines Jung's use of literary techniques in several of his works, including Anima