"This collection brings the range and diversity of post-Jungian thought into the realm of contemporary literary and cultural criticism. These essays explore, expand, critique, and apply post-Jungian critical theory as they revisit and reread Jung's own writings from numerous perspectives. No longer treated as a source of clear, unequivocal, authoritative pronouncement, Jung's writings are themselves subjected to critical, deconstructive readings, and several of the essays confront head-on Jung's evident racism, antifeminism, anti-Semitism, and political conservatism. While not downplaying such charges, the contributors outline an alternative, post-Jungian theory responsive to contemporary feminist, postcolonial, and poststructural concerns."--Jacket Foreword / Andrew Samuels -- Introduction: Situating Jung in Contemporary Critical Theory / George H. Jensen -- Jung's Ghost Stories: Jung for Literary Theory in Feminism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodernism / Susan Rowland -- Theorizing Writerly Creativity: Jung with Lacan? / Oliver Davis -- Detective Films and Images of the Orient: A Post-Jungian Reflection / Luke Hockley -- Airing (Erring) the Soul: An Archetypal View of Television / Keith Polette -- Jane Iterare: Jane Eyre as a Feminist Revision of the Hero's Journey / Tita French Baumlin, James S. Baumlin -- Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Jungian Images in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White / Sophia Andres -- Drs. Jung and Chekhov: Physicians of the Soul / Sally Porterfield -- Opened Ground from a Jungian Perspective: The Father Archetype in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney / J.R. Atfield -- "The Sun's Children": Shadow Work in the Poetry of LeRoi Jones/Imamu Amiri Baraka / Rebecca Meacham -- Sharing a Shadow: The Image of the Shrouded Stranger in the Works of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg / James T. Jones -- In the Buddha's Shadow: Jung, Zen, and the Poetry of Jane Hirshfield / Andrew Elkins -- A Bibliography of Jungian and Post-Jungian Criticism, 1980-2000 / Marcia Nichols.
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