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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827882103321

Autore

Daniels Aaron B. 

Titolo

Jungian crime scene analysis / / by Aaron B. Daniels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2014

ISBN

0-429-91535-7

0-429-90112-7

0-367-10201-3

0-429-47635-3

1-4619-5755-9

1-78241-128-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

364.3

364.301

Soggetti

Jungian psychology

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Origins and introduction -- part II. The literature -- part III. Synthesis.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the serial killer as having 'imagopathy' - that is, a disorder of the imagination - manifested through such deficiencies as failure of empathy, rigid fantasies, and unresolved projections. The author argues that this disorder is a form of failed alchemy. His study challenges long-held assumptions that the Jungian concept of individuation is a purely healthful drive. Serial killers are unable to form insight after projecting untenable material onto their victims. Criminal profilers must therefore effect that insight informed by their own reactions to violent crime scene imagery, using what the author asserts is a form of Jung's 'active imagination'. This book posits sexual homicides as irrational shadow images in our rationalistic modern culture. Consequently, profilers bridge conscious and unconscious for the inexorably splintered killer as well as the culture at large.