C.G. Jung stressed that emotions are the driving forces behind social and psychological lives, enabling individuals to connect with themselves and their environment. Divided into five parts, this innovative volume explores the enmeshments between emotions.
The material locates emotions within the context of nonverbal, developmental somatic embodiment, eco-political and psychosocial engagement, gender and LGBTQ+. Shadow phenomenology, history, myth and the effects of war are likewise explored in depth. Each theme expertly stimulates a resurgence of Jungian and non-Jungian clinical and academic interest in the role that emotions play in contemporary thought and in the impetus for eco-socioeconomic change.
This volume will be of great interest to Jungian analysts and trainees, psychotherapists, and interdisciplinary cultural theorists. It will aid scholars in Jungian academic studies and related fields interested in metaphor, symbols, gender, and LGBTQ+ perspectives.
Table of Contents
Editorial Introduction
Part 1: Emotions as Somatic Unconscious Embodiment
1. The Core-self Betrayed – When Words and Feelings are Disconnected
Astrid Berg
2. Early Infant Emotions, the Mind/body Interface and Archetypal Imagery: A Case Illustration
John Merchant
3. Engaging the Emotional Self: Affect, Metaphor and Embodiment in Analysis
Mark Winborn
Part 2: Emotions in Psychosocial, Eco Political Emplacement
4. In Nature’s Embrace: Emotional Emplacement and the Search for an ‘Eco-symbolic’
Gillian M. Brown
5. Vulnerability and Moral Injuries of Psychotherapists in Countertransference
Huan Wang
6. Fire of Emotions: Challenges of Working Psychoanalytically in Extreme Times
Jolanta Kowal and Ewa Winkler
7. Dissociation and Posthumanism
Glen Slater
Part 3: Emotions, Gender, Lgbtq+
8. Lgbtq Soul Psychology: A Model of Personal Narrative
Marybeth Carter
9. Living Your Animal: Listening to Wild Gender and Sexuality
George Taxidis
10. How to Not Be Like a Girl: A Queer Therapist’s Dance With Shame
José María Jiménez Orvañanos
11. Jung and the Queer Dialectic: A Heretical Tradition
Douglas Thomas
Part 4: Emotions as Unconscious ‘Shadow’ Phenomenology
12. Come Meet the Dragons! A Jungian Multi Modal Analytic Perspective on the Nature of Coming Out of States of Shutdown
Orit Sônia Waisman
13. Medea as the Modern Mother: An Archetypal Understanding of Maternal Infanticide
Brooke Laufer
14. Swallowed by the Dragon: Integrated Perspectives on Emotion
Lynlee Lyckberg
Part 5: Emotions Within History, Myth and War
15. Maria’ Geometric Tetractys Axiom: Alexandrian Wisdom for an Inaugural Occasion, Eros Emergent, Forged in Fire
Evangeline Rand
16. Mr Spock From Star Trek: A Popular Cultural Icon as Symbol for the Importance of Accepting Eros Within
Margaret Ann Mendenhall