Jungian psychology has taken a noticeable political turn in the
recent years, and analysts and academics whose work draws on Jung's
ideas have made internationally recognised contributions in many
humanitarian, communal and political contexts. This book brings
together a multidisciplinary and international selection of
contributors, all of whom have track records as activists, to
discuss some of the most compelling issues in contemporary
politics. Analysis and Activism is presented in six parts: Section
One, Interventions, includes discussion of what working outside the
consulting room means, and descriptions of work with displaced
children in Colombia, projects for migrants in Italy and of an
analyst's engagement in the struggles of indigenous Australians.
Section Two, Equalities and Inequalities, tackles topics ranging
from the collapse of care systems in the UK to working with victims
of torture. Section Three, Politics and Modernity, looks at the
struggles of native people in Guatemala and Canada and oral history
interviews with members of the Chinese/Vietnamese diaspora. Section
Four, Culture and Identity, studies issues of race and class in
Brazil, feminism and the gendered imagination, and the introduction
of Obamacare in the USA. Section Five, Cultural Phantoms, examines
the continuing trauma of the Cultural Revolution in China, Jung's
relationship with Jews and Judaism, and German-Jewish dynamics.
Finally, Section Six, Nature: Truth and Reconciliation, looks at
our broken connection to nature, town and country planning, and
relief work after the 2011 earthquake in Japan. There remains
throughout the book an acknowledgement that the project of thinking
forward the political in Jungian psychology can be problematic,
given Jung's own questionable political history. What emerges is a
radical and progressive Jungian approach to politics informed by
the spirit of the times as well as by the spirit of the depths.
This cutting-edge collection will be essential reading for Jungian
and post-Jungian academics and analysts, psychotherapists,
counsellors and psychologists, and academics and students of
politics, sociology, psychosocial studies and cultural studies.
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