Title African Americans and Jungian psychology : leaving the shadows / Fanny Brewster

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Jung's early America : racial relations and racism -- The reality of racial chains and the myth of freedom -- American racial black and white complexes -- Africanist traditions and African American culture -- African archetypal primordial : a map for Jungian psychology -- Archetypal grief of African American women -- The Jungian shadow -- The dreamers of St. Elizabeth Hospital -- African American cultural consciousness and the Jungian collective -- The promise of diversity -- Summary/healing through an Africanist perspective Summary African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows explores the little-known racial relationship between the African diaspora and C.G. Jung's analytical psychology. In this unique book, Fanny Brewster explores the culture of Jungian psychology in America and its often-difficult relationship with race and racism. Beginning with an examination of how Jungian psychology initially failed to engage African Americans, and continuing to the modern use of the Shadow in language and imagery, Brewster creates space for a much broader discussion regarding race and racism in America. Using Jung's own words, Brewster establishes a timeline of Jungian perspectives on African Americans from the past to the present. She explores the European roots of analytical psychology and its racial biases, as well as the impact this has on contemporary society. The book also expands our understanding of the negative impact of racism in American psychology, beginning a dialogue and proposing how we might change our thinking and behaviors to create a twenty-first-century Jungian psychology that recognizes an American multicultural psyche and a positive African American culture. African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows explores the positive contributions of African culture to Jung's theories and will be essential reading for analytical psychologists, academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, African American studies, and American studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Jungian psychology. African Americans -- Psychology. Psychoanalytic interpretation. Jungian Theory -- history Black or African American -- psychology Black or African American -- ethnology Racism -- psychology Psychoanalytic Interpretation History, 20th Century History, 21st Century HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine. MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine. Psychoanalytic interpretation African Americans -- Psychology Jungian psychology SUBJECT United States -- ethnology Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317351863 131735186X 9781315665351 1315665352 9781315665351 9781317351849 1317351843 9781317351856 1317351851

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