Individuation and Liberty in a Globalized World

Stefano Carpani, M.A., M.Phil. is an Italian sociologist (post-graduate of the University of Cambridge) and psychoanalyst who trained at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich, accredited analyst CGJI-Z/IAAP, and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytical Studies at University of Essex. He works in private practice in Berlin in English, Italian, and Spanish. He is the initiator of the YouTube interview series Breakfast at Küsnacht, which aims to capture the voices of senior Jungians. Since 2017, he has collected more than 70 interviews. He is among the initiators of Psychosocial Wednesdays, a digital salon modeled on Freud’s Wednesday meetings in Vienna and Jung’s meetings at the Psychological Club, which features speakers from various psychoanalytic traditions, schools, and associated fields. He is the author of numerous papers and edited volumes, including Breakfast at Küsnacht: Conversations on C. G. Jung and Beyond (Chiron, 2020—IAJS book award finalist, for "Best edited Book"); The Plural Turn in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies: The Work of Andrew Samuels (Routledge, 2021); Anthology of Contemporary Classics in Analytical psychology: The New Ancestors (Routledge, 2022); Lockdown Therapy: Jungian Perspectives on how the Pandemic Changed Psychoanalysis (Routledge, in print, July 2022).

Preface Introduction: Absolute Freedom is 'Freedom After Freedom' 1 Dreaming Your Future. Dreaming Your Freedom 2 In Defense of the Freedoms of the Self 3 The paradox of metaphor 4 The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Complex Theory and the Numinous in the Development of History (A neo-Jungian approach) 5 The Impossibility of Freedom: From Psychoanalytical Conceptions to Political Objections 6 Individuation, Textuality, and Sexuality in Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia 7 Mysterium Dissociationis: The masculine in crisis towards new forms of thought and relationship. 8 False Start: A neo-Jungian Critique of Self-Help 9 Natality, Individuation and generative social action: From amor mundi to social generativity 10‘Roots in a pot’: The identity conundrum in global nomads. 11 The Necessity of Guilt: a Freeing Movement of the Soul Towards Individuation 12 Floating and Taking root: individuation and floating in contemporary traumatic conditions 13 Paranoia, politics and the tyranny of the identical: Is there civilization in the transitions we are crossing? 14 The applicability of analytical psychology in China: how a Western psychological lens might be adapted in the East