Main description:

This unique book showcases the cutting-edge work of researchers in Jungian and post-Jungian studies, focusing on the advances being made at the University of Essex, UK, and operating as a Festschrift for Professor Andrew Samuels.

The Plural Turn in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies includes contributions from innovative authors who specialise in Jung but incorporate ideas from other psychoanalytic schools and from a range of disciplines. The book includes chapters which shed new light on concepts including alchemy, archetypes and individuation and which examine art, relationships and politics. It both honours the work of Andrew Samuels and sets the foundations of an 'Essex School' of Jungian studies.

A wide-ranging collection, this book will be essential for academics and scholars of Jungian and post-Jungian studies. It will also be a key title for all readers with an interest in the work of Andrew Samuels.

Contents:

Preface by Kevin Lu

Introduction by Stefano Carpani: Andrew Samuels: Plurality, Politics and 'The Individual'

PART I: From the PhD Theses

An Enquiry into Psychological Aspects of Recovery from Dependence on Psychoactive Substances
Mary Addenbrooke

The Tabloid Trickster
James Alan Anslow

Title: Laws of Inheritance: An Archetypal Study of Twins
Elizabeth Brodersen

From Emancipation to Liberation: A Neo-Jungian Critique of Theodor Adorno
Stefano Carpani

A Spatial Rapprochement Between Jung's Technique of Active Imagination and Desoille's Reve Eveille Dirige
Laner Cassar

A Critique of Containing Space in Therapeutic Work
Martyna Chrzescijanska

Alchemy and Individuation
Clare Crellin

Pan Stalks America: Contemporary American Anxieties and Cultural Complex Theory
Sukey Fontelieu

Personal Myth and Analytical Psychology
Phil McCash

On the Spirit and the Self: Chagall, Jung, and Religion
Jennifer Swan

Marriage as a Psychological Relationship in China

Huan Wang

PART II: Andrew in 1000 words

Mary Addenbrooke

James Alan Anslow

Elizabeth Brodersen

Stefano Carpani

Laner Cassar

Martyna Chrzescijanska

Clare Crellin

Sukey Fontelieu

Phil McCash

Jennifer Swan

Huan Wang

PART III: Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century

Stefano Carpani and Andrew Samuels in conversation