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What has Jung to do with the Postmodern? Chris Hauke's lively and provocative book, puts the case that Jung's psychology constitutes a critique of modernity that brings it in line with many aspects of the postmodern critique of contemporary culture. The metaphor he uses is one in which 'we are gazing through a Jungian transparency or filter being held up against the postmodern while, from the other side, we are also able to look through a transparency or filter of the postmodern to gaze at Jung. From either direction there will be a new and surprising vision.'
Setting Jung against a range of postmodern thinkers, Hauke recontextualizes Jung' s thought as a reponse to modernity, placing it - sometimes in parallel and sometimes in contrast to - various postmodern discourses. Including chapters on themes such as meaning, knowledge and power, the contribution of architectural criticism to the postmodern debate, Nietzsche's perspective theory of affect and Jung's complex theory, representation and symbolization, constructivism and pluralism, this is a book which will find a ready audience in academy and profession alike.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword (p. xi)
• Acknowledgements (p. xv)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Getting re-housed (p. 1)
• Coming home (p. 4)
• Post-Jungians and the postmodern: the story so far (p. 9)
• (Home on) The postmodern range (p. 13)
• Reading this book (p. 18)
• 1 Why postmodern? (p. 23)
• Modern and postmodern (p. 23)
• Jung and the limitations of Enlightenment rationality (p. 31)
• Daniel Bell and Peter Homans: modernity, capitalism and the Protestant psychologic (p. 39)
• Fredric Jameson: 'history' and nostalgia (p. 43)
• Jean Baudrillard: image and simulacrum (p. 46)
• 2 Freud and Jung: the analysis of the individual and the collective (p. 51)
• Habermas and the incomplete project of modernity (p. 51)
• Freud and modernity: post-Freudian social analysis and post-Jungian critique (p. 55)
• A comparison of some of the concepts of Freud and Jung (p. 65)
• 3 Consciousness consciousing: individuation and/under postmodern conditions (p. 66)
• Princess Diana and the 'death' of the subject (p. 67)
• Temporality, spatiality and our need for maps--Jameson's route towards individuation? (p. 72)
• Affirming consciousness: beyond good and evil postmoderns (p. 78)
• 4 Frank Gehry's house and Carl Jung's Tower (p. 84)
• Buildings, modernists and post-modernism (p. 86)
• Charles Jencks on defining the postmodern in architecture (and elsewhere) (p. 90)
• Modern, late-modern, postmodern or what? (p. 92)
• Philip Johnson, Nietzsche, transvaluation and aesthetics (p. 93)
• Peter Eisenman, psychoanalysis and nostalgia (p. 96)
• Frank Gehry's house (p. 97)
• Carl Jung's Tower (p. 103)
• Concluding remarks and other points of view (p. 111)
• 5 Postmodern gender: masculine, feminine and the other (p. 114)
• Dealing with the essential (p. 114)
• The gender paradigm (p. 117)
• Postmodern sex, postmodern gender (p. 122)
• Julia Kristeva, the abject and the lapis (p. 126)
• The shadow, the other, projection and the semiotic (p. 132)
• The failure of the goddesses (p. 137)
• The use of myths: French feminists, Jung and clinical work (p. 141)
• 6 Jung, Nietzsche and the roots of the postmodern (p. 145)
• Nietzsche and German thought at the end of the nineteenth century (p. 147)
• The deposing of the subject (p. 149)
• Pluralism, perspectivism and complexes (p. 152)
• Genealogy and 'history' (p. 159)
• The Ubermensch and individuation (p. 168)
• 7 Nietzsche, power and the body, or, Jung and the post-hysteric (p. 175)
• At the Salpetriere (p. 175)
• The will to power (p. 178)
• Hysteria and the body (p. 181)
• Jung and the stage-management of hysterical symptoms (p. 184)
• Self-overcoming, individuation and Telos (p. 187)
• 8 Image, sign, symbol: representation and the postmodern (p. 191)
• Meaning (p. 191)
• 'Semiotic' and 'symbolic' (p. 193)
• Structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction; plus the social construction of reality (p. 194)
• Image, imago, word: imagination and language (p. 200)
• Knowing and the unknown: ancient wisdom and modern representation (p. 205)
• The Subject, the Other and the necessity of the Unknown (p. 215)
• The postmodern meaning of 'meaning' (p. 218)
• 9 Affect and modernity (p. 223)
• Death and sex (p. 223)
• Charles Darwin, William James and the theorising of emotion (p. 225)
• Repression, the complex and affects (p. 227)
• The Life and Death of Affect as an Object (p. 229)
• The hybrid, perspectives and the object of psychotherapy (p. 232)
• 10 Mind and matter: Jungian and postmodern science (p. 236)
• Postmodern science: reading the data (p. 236)
• Other science (p. 246)
• The Unus Mundus: archetypes, the psychoid and synchronicity (p. 248)
• The link with alchemy (p. 255)
• Psychotherapy, empathy and psi phenomena (p. 257)
• 11 'I'm OK, you're mad': sanity, psychosis and community (p. 264)
• The psychiatrist (p. 264)
• The scope of rationality (p. 267)
• Multiple orderings of reality: Levy-Bruhl, Wittgenstein, Peirce and Schutz (p. 269)
• Archetypal psychology and the necessity of abnormal psychology (p. 272)
• Madness in context: an anthropological case of psychotic breakdown (p. 276)
• 12 'The gods are with us. And they want to play' (p. 281)
• The paintings of David Salle (p. 281)
• References (p. 287)
• Index (p. 297)

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