Collective Structures of Imagination in Jungian Interpretation

Professor Robert A. Segal is Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His main works include The Poimandres as Myth: Scholarly Theory and Gnostic Meaning (Berlin, 1986), Joseph Campbell: An Introduction (New York, 1987), Jung on Mythology (Princeton, 1998), Theorizing about Myth (Amherst, 1999), Myth: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2004/2015), and Myth Analyzed (London/New York, 2021). Associate Professor Ilona Błocian is Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Director of the Center of Interdisciplinary Research and Philosophy of Culture at the University of Wrocław, Poland. Her main works include The Psychoanalytical Interpretations of Myth. Freud, Jung, Fromm (Warsaw, 2011), The Contemporary Influences of C. G. Jung’s Thought (Leiden, 2018), and Imagination: Art, Science and Social World (Berlin, 2020). Dr. Andrew Kuzmicki conducts research at the International Association for Jungian Studies and writes for the Polish Online Journal of Analytical Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. His main works include The Symbolism of the Self (Warsaw, 2008) and The Contemporary Influences of C. G. Jung’s Thought (Leiden, 2018).

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Archetypes and ImaginationIlona Blocian, Robert Segal, and Andrew KuzmickiPart 1: Collective Structures of the Unconscious1 What Is Real?John Beebe2 Jung and Social ThoughtIlona Blocian3 Interpretation Dilemmas Relating to Carl Gustav Jung's Concept in the Context of the Sociological-Anthropological TraditionEwa KwiatkowskaPart 2: Social Imaginarium4 The Lost Art of PersonalizationVicky Jo Varner5 The Wall: Object, Image, and Processes in the Individual and Collective PsycheMonica Luci6 An Unconscious Source of Images: about how Bachelard Read JungKamila Morawska7 In the Quest for Temenos: Metaphors for the Origins of Serbian Cultural ComplexesBojana Stamenkovic Rudic8 Therapy of Shadow in Film and Literature Introductory RemarksMaria Kostyszak9 Archetypal Feminine in Kaxinawá's Stories: A Decolonizing Option to Jungian ApproachHannah Hennebert10 The Hero as a Dominant Mythical Motif in Western Culture and Its Relevance Nowadays: The Postulates of Jung and his FollowersPatrycja Neumann11 What Only They Could See: A Comparative Analysis of Hilma af Klint's Swan Paintings and C. G. Jung's Mandala SketchesKathrin Schaeppi12 Traces of Psychological Impact Found in the Drawings by Cancer PatientsNorifumi Kishimoto13 Return to Indigenous Art Forms: Potential for HealingJosepha Bayes-King14 Erich Neumann's Great Mother, André Green's Dead Mother, and EcopsychologyLidar Shany15 Wotan and Cocks: Reframing Jungian Sociology for the Early 21st CenturyJohann GraaffPart 3: Psychological Significance in Social Processes16 Thinking of a Social Hierarchy as an Instinctual and Archetypal PhenomenonAndrew Kuzmicki17 Cultural Complex, Death Anxiety, and Individuation During the Times of Populism: A Dialogue between Jungian Psychology and Social PsychologyHelge Michael Osterhold18 Portuguese Sebastianism as an Intersection Field between the Right and Left Political Forces in Brazilian 2018 Presidential ElectionsGustavo Orlandeli Marques19 From Compensation to Purpose. A Neo-Jungian Critique of Horkheimer and MarcuseStefano Carpani20 Mania of Contemporary Capitalism-A Polish PerspectiveMichaó WróblewskiIndex