Narratives of Individuation

"By bringing together Jungian psychology and postmodern narratology on the fertile crossover of "individuation," editors Raya A. Jones and Leslie Gardner enrich both fields by showing how they challenge, corroborate, expand and deepen each other. Narratives of Individuation is an essential book for Jungians building stories in/as clinical treatment and scholars in the Social Sciences and the Humanities exploring narrative as constituent of being. Stories define, structure, and frustrate who we are and where we are going. Jones and Gardner have skilfully woven a multifaceted texture of themes of the examined life, Jung in the postmodern and refiguring individuation. This marvellous book enables us to examine who is speaking in the secret corners of the becoming soul." - Susan Rowland, PhD., is Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, USA. Her latest book is Remembering Dionysus (Routledge, 2017)

Raya A. Jones, PhD, is Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. Her academic interests include Jungian, narrative and dialogical perspectives on the self. She has authored, edited and co-edited several books in the field, as well as numerous journal articles. Leslie Gardner, PhD, is Fellow in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic studies at the University of Essex, UK. She was among the founders of the International Association of Jungian Studies, and its journal, International Journal of Jungian Studies. She has authored and co-edited several books in Jungian studies.

Introduction, Raya A. Jones; Chapter 1: Dialogues with a Talking Skull That Refuses To Speak: Jungian and narrative psychologies, Raya A. Jones; Chapter 2: Moments of Becoming: Narrative Knowing and the Ethics of Individuation, Mark Freeman; Chapter 3: Listening to A Dream-Narrative: A Language for Narrating Boundaries, Megumi Yama; Chapter 4: Autobiographical Narrative: Augustine, Vico and Jung, Leslie Gardner; Chapter 5: Jungs personal myth and the Two Personalities, Mark Saban; Chapter 6: Telling Stories: Jungs Red Book as an Exercise in Narrative, Paul Bishop; Chapter 7: Between Two Worlds: The Narrative and Psychological Implications of Hoffmanns The Golden Pot, Terence Dawson; Chapter 8: Affectivity in Narratio and Individuation, Leslie Gardner; Chapter 9: Co-Individuation As An Open Mandala, Fabrice Olivier Dubosc; Chapter 10: Challenges to Dialogicality and Individuation in Techno-Digital Culture, Vincent W. Hevern; Chapter 11: Narratives of Transformation: the Structural Dream Analysis Method, Christian Roesler; Chapter 12. Narrating the Archetypal Images: The Road Less Travelled, Inna Semetsky; Index.