This fascinating new book explores the puella as an archetypal, symbolic, and personality figure reaching into the classical foundations of Jungian analytical psychology, focusing on the modern conflicts reverberating personally and culturally to remove the obstacles for accessing our more complete selves.
Puella is youthful, charming, seductive and unfolds the creative, unusual wisdom of the feminine. Postmodern fluidity presents other realities, rethinking and reenacting the truth to oneself. If denigrated, psyche is halted from development, until addressed. The author employs a cross-disciplinary approach and clinical vignettes from narratives of real people from diverse backgrounds reflecting Jungian thought and treatment, along with other psychoanalytical perspectives for the unfolding of puella.
Examining the puella as a key figure in psychological development within a diverse world, this book will be appeal to Jungian analysts, and also to mental health professionals of various paradigms interested in Jungian analytical and philosophical thought.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Archetypal girl/woman 3. Puella’s shadow 4. Where is mother? 5. The bones of the father 6. The empty chair 7. The diachrony of dreams 8. Beauty – inside the mask 9. Performativity 10. Bluebeard fairy tale 11. Puer quandary 12. Unreal to oneself 13. Into the void – loss of the symbolic 14. A fascist state of mind – the complex 15. End notes – gaining joy