1st Edition
Trauma, Cultural Complexes, and Transformation Folk Narratives and Present Realities
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1: The Mythical World of Trauma. Chapter 2: Legends, Transformation, and Synchronicities. Chapter 3: Cultural Complexes and Re-Imagination. Chapter 4: South Africa: The Time of the Hyena—Killing off the Weak. Chapter 5: Latvia. Please Sell me a Dirt-Cheap Dragon. Chapter 6: The United States. The Haunted American Dream. Chapter 7: Conclusion: A New Relatedness of Nurturing Kinship. References
Biography
Evija Volfa Vestergaard, Ph.D., is an independent researcher in Jungian and archetypal studies. Her research explores cultural narratives for insights into cultural trauma, necessary transformations, and healing, drawing on her experiences of living and working in Europe, South Africa, and North America.
"In an era of changing paradigms, Evija Volfa Vestergaard provides an important pioneering book of multidisciplinary transformative research. This is a different literary criticism because it shows political violence disrupting orality, a different Jungian analysis of cultural complexes because it shows these factors shaping literature, a different cultural history because it demonstrates the psychic depths of collective trauma. Such research fosters healing and healing opens to knowing." --Susan Rowland, Ph.D., is Chair of MA Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life at Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA; author of nine books on C.G. Jung in relation to creativity, modernity and transdisciplinary studies.
