Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Robert A. Segal -- Copyright page / Robert A. Segal -- List of Figures / Robert A. Segal -- Contributors / Robert A. Segal -- Introduction: Archetypes and Imagination / Ilona Błocian -- Chapter 1 Why Is This Real? / John Beebe -- Chapter 2 Archetypal Patterns of Imagination: Social Imaginaries / Ilona Błocian -- Chapter 3 Interpretation Dilemmas Relating to Carl Gustav Jung’s Concept in the Context of the Sociological-Anthropological Tradition / Ewa Kwiatkowska -- Chapter 4 The Lost Art of Personification / Vicky Jo Varner -- Chapter 5 The Wall: Object, Image, and Processes in the Individual and Collective Psyche / Monica Luci -- Chapter 6 An Unconscious Source of Images: About How Bachelard Read Jung / Kamila Morawska -- Chapter 7 In the Quest for Temenos : Metaphors for the Origins of Serbian Cultural Complexes / Bojana Stamenković Rudić -- Chapter 8 Therapy of Shadow in Film and Literature: Introductory Remarks / Maria Kostyszak -- Chapter 9 Archetypal Feminine in Kaxinawá ’s Stories: A Decolonizing Option to Jungian Approach / Hannah Armbrust -- Chapter 10 The Hero as a Dominant Mythical Motif in Western Culture and Its Relevance Nowadays: The Postulates of Jung and His Followers / Patrycja Neumann -- Chapter 11 What Only They Could See: A Comparative Analysis of Hilma af Klint’s Swan Paintings and C.G. Jung’s Mandala Sketches / Kathrin Schaeppi -- Chapter 12 Traces of Psychological Impact Found in the Drawings by Cancer Patients / Norifumi Kishimoto -- Chapter 13 Return to Indigenous Art Forms: Potential for Healing / Josefa Bayes-King -- Chapter 14 Erich Neumann’s Great Mother, André Green’s Dead Mother, and Ecopsychology / Lidar Shany -- Chapter 15 Wotan and Cocks: Reframing Jungian Sociology for the Early 21st Century / Johann Graaff -- Chapter 16 Thinking of a Social Hierarchy as an Instinctual and Archetypal Phenomenon / Andrew Kuzmicki -- Chapter 17 Cultural Complex, Death Anxiety, and Individuation during the Times of Populism / Helge Michael Osterhold -- Chapter 18 Portuguese Sebastianism as an Intersection Field between the Right and Left Political Forces in the Brazilian 2018 Presidential Elections / Gustavo Orlandeli Marques -- Chapter 19 From Compensation to Purpose: A Neo-Jungian Critique of Horkheimer and Marcuse / Stefano Carpani -- Chapter 20 Mania of Contemporary Capitalism: A Polish Perspective / Michał Wróblewski -- Index / Robert A. Segal.

This book presents an analysis of the social aspects of Carl Gustav Jung's thought and its followers, the interpretation of the phenomena of contemporary social life (social imagery) from the perspective of the main categories of this thought (archetype, unconscious, collectivity, mass society, mass man). It also contains an attempt of their application for understanding contemporary social and political phenomena (e.g. Brazilian sebastianism, Balkan conflicts, virtual-imagery sphere of communication, figures of imagery in popular culture, and others). The authors examine the relationship between Jung’s and Jungians' (E. Neumann, J. Hillman, J. L. Henderson) conceptions and many accompanying them (e.g. Frankfurt school, Bachelard’s philosophy, American cultural psychoanalysis) and the background of contemporary social psychology, sociology, and cultural anthropology.

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