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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972887903321

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 pages)

Disciplina

150.1954

616.89008996073

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.

Sommario/riassunto

African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows explores the little-known racial relationship between the African diaspora and C.G. Jung's analytical psychology. In this unique book, Fanny Brewster explores the culture of Jungian psychology in America and its often-difficult relationship with race and racism.   Beginning with an examination of how Jungian psychology initially failed to engage African Americans, and continuing to the modern use of the Shadow in language and imagery, Brewster creates space for a much



broader discussion regarding race and racism in America. Using Jung's own words, Brewster establishes a timeline of Jungian perspectives on African Americans from the past to the present. She explores the European roots of analytical psychology and its racial biases, as well as the impact this has on contemporary society. The book also expands our understanding of the negative impact of racism in American psychology, beginning a dialogue and proposing how we might change our thinking and behaviors to create a twenty-first-century Jungian psychology that recognizes an American multicultural psyche and a positive African American culture. African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows explores the positive contributions of African culture to Jung's theories and will be essential reading for analytical psychologists, academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, African American studies, and American studies.