1st Edition
Artist Emily Carr and the Spirit of the Land A Jungian Portrait
Part 1 Life Story. A New Biographic Paradigm. Parents. Childhood & Youth. Siblings. Young Adult (19-33). Middle Years (33-54). Mature Years (54-63). Final Years (64-74). Part 2 Psychodynamics: Typology. Archetypes & Complexes. Gender Complex. Family Complexes. Migration & Cultural Complexes. Art, Religion and Philosophy. Archetypal Figures of Personality and Individuation. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Phyllis Marie Jensen, a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst, art therapist and health researcher, is currently an associate clinical professor in family medicine at the University of Alberta with a private psychoanalytic practice in Vancouver, Canada.
‘It was C.G. Jung’s view that artists’ works may symbolize the vanguard of consciousness as it will emerge more concretely in the future of human culture’s evolution. In this impressive study of the life and work of the Canadian artist Emily Carr, Jungian analyst Dr. Phyllis Marie Jensen demonstrates exactly this thesis: the artist as forerunner of what we today see resplendently active in many forms all around us, the emerging sense of anima mundi in nature and human constructions, and additionally a poignant and sharp critique of humanity’s shadow cast over the planetary environment. This book is an important contribution to our awareness of the supreme value of artistic creativity.’ - Murray Stein, Ph.D., author of Minding the Self (Routledge, 2014).
