1st Edition
The Feminine Case Jung, Aesthetics and Creative Process
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Feminine Case is a collection of papers that debate the issue of gender from a Jungian perspective. Particular attention is paid to the discussion of Jung's "transcendent function" and what this offers women in the process of individualisation. Attention is also given to the revisionist work of James Hillman and to relevant issues found within post-Lacanian critique, principally in the works... Read more
Introduction, 1 Toni Wolff: a struggle for self-definition, 2 Reflections on the humanizing of the mother archetype through the primal and analytic relationship, 3 Jung, Kristeva, and the maternal realm, 4 Individuation and necessity, 5 Jung's search for the masculine in women: the signification of the animus, 6 This thing of brightness: the feminine power of transcendent imagination, 7 The alchemy of inversion: Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Mary Kelly's Menace, 8 Women's lack: the image of woman as divine, 9 The embodiment of desire: art, gender, and analysis, 10 This phenomenological ecriture: feminine consciousness both corporeal and lucid.
Biography
Tessa Adams, PhD, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Visiting Fellow of Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Director of Studies of the Society of Psychology and Healing. She is an art theorist and practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist, holding professional membership of both the Site of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Guild of Psychotherapists. She has published widely on psychoanalysis and contemporary art practice.
