Collective Structures of Imagination in Jungian Interpretation

Professor Robert A. Segal is Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His main works include The Poimandres as Myth: Scholarly Theory and Gnostic Meaning (Berlin, 1986), Joseph Campbell: An Introduction (New York, 1987), Jung on Mythology (Princeton, 1998), Theorizing about Myth (Amherst, 1999), Myth: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2004/2015), and Myth Analyzed (London/New York, 2021). Associate Professor Ilona Błocian is Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Director of the Center of Interdisciplinary Research and Philosophy of Culture at the University of Wrocław, Poland. Her main works include The Psychoanalytical Interpretations of Myth. Freud, Jung, Fromm (Warsaw, 2011), The Contemporary Influences of C. G. Jung’s Thought (Leiden, 2018), and Imagination: Art, Science and Social World (Berlin, 2020). Dr. Andrew Kuzmicki conducts research at the International Association for Jungian Studies and writes for the Polish Online Journal of Analytical Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. His main works include The Symbolism of the Self (Warsaw, 2008) and The Contemporary Influences of C. G. Jung’s Thought (Leiden, 2018).

List of Figures



Introduction: Archetypes and Imagination

 Ilona Blocian, Robert Segal, and Andrew Kuzmicki



Part 1: Collective Structures of the Unconscious



1 What Is Real?

 John Beebe



2 Jung and Social Thought

 Ilona Blocian



3 Interpretation Dilemmas Relating to Carl Gustav Jung's Concept in the Context of the Sociological-Anthropological Tradition

 Ewa Kwiatkowska



Part 2: Social Imaginarium



4 The Lost Art of Personalization

 Vicky Jo Varner



5 The Wall: Object, Image, and Processes in the Individual and Collective Psyche

 Monica Luci



6 An Unconscious Source of Images: about how Bachelard Read Jung

 Kamila Morawska



7 In the Quest for Temenos: Metaphors for the Origins of Serbian Cultural Complexes

 Bojana Stamenkovic Rudic



8 Therapy of Shadow in Film and Literature Introductory Remarks

 Maria Kostyszak



9 Archetypal Feminine in Kaxinawá's Stories: A Decolonizing Option to Jungian Approach

 Hannah Hennebert



10 The Hero as a Dominant Mythical Motif in Western Culture and Its Relevance Nowadays: The Postulates of Jung and his Followers

 Patrycja Neumann



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



12 Traces of Psychological Impact Found in the Drawings by Cancer Patients

 Norifumi Kishimoto



13 Return to Indigenous Art Forms: Potential for Healing

 Josepha Bayes-King



14 Erich Neumann's Great Mother, André Green's Dead Mother, and Ecopsychology

 Lidar Shany



15 Wotan and Cocks: Reframing Jungian Sociology for the Early 21st Century

 Johann Graaff



Part 3: Psychological Significance in Social Processes



16 Thinking of a Social Hierarchy as an Instinctual and Archetypal Phenomenon

 Andrew Kuzmicki



17 Cultural Complex, Death Anxiety, and Individuation During the Times of Populism: A Dialogue between Jungian Psychology and Social Psychology

 Helge Michael Osterhold



18 Portuguese Sebastianism as an Intersection Field between the Right and Left Political Forces in Brazilian 2018 Presidential Elections

 Gustavo Orlandeli Marques



19 From Compensation to Purpose. A Neo-Jungian Critique of Horkheimer and Marcuse

 Stefano Carpani



20 Mania of Contemporary Capitalism-A Polish Perspective

 Michaó Wróblewski

Index