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The Fantasy Principle Psychoanalysis of the Imagination
By Michael Vannoy Adams
Copyright 2004
268 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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Contemporary psychoanalysis needs less reality and more fantasy; what Michael Vannoy Adams calls the 'fantasy principle'. The Fantasy Principle radically affirms the centrality of imagination. It challenges us to exercise and explore the imagination, shows us how to value vitally important images that emerge from the unconscious, how to evoke such images, and how to engage them decisively. It... Read more
Preface. The Fantasy Principle: Imaginal Psychology and the Dethroning of 'Mr. Reality'. Compensation in the Service of Individuation; Phenomenological Essentialism and Jungian Dream Interpretation. Jungian Post-Structural Theory: Structures versus Constructs. Concepts versus Images. Mythological Knowledge: Just How Important is It in Jungian (and Freudian) Analysis?. The 'Womanning' of Schreber: Catastrophe, Creation, and the Mythopoeic Forces of Mankind. Dreaming of the Ku Klux Klan: 'Race', History, and Culture in Psychoanalysis. Jung, Africa, and the 'Geopathology' of Europe: Psychic Place and Displacement, Refathering Psychoanalysis. Deliteralizing Hillman: Imaginal Therapy, Individual and Cultural. A Baby Is Being Eaten: A Case of Cannibalistic Malpractice and Suicide. The Importance of Being Blasphemous: Profanation versus Resacralization. References.
Biography
Michael Vannoy Adams
