Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire

This volume of essays, all authored by practicing Jungian psychoanalysts, examines and illuminates ways of working with individual analytic and therapeutic clients in the context of powerful and current collective forces, in the United States and beyond. One of Carl Jung's central achievements was his clear recognition that the psyche is a locus not only of individual and personal experiences but also of social, collective, and even cosmological experiences. This important insight on Jung's part both opens broad vistas for psychoanalytic practice and poses potential challenges for the psychoanalytic practitioner attempting to understand and aid the individual client amidst the pressure of intense collective energies, especially amidst collective crises. Among the themes treated in this volume are principles of non-violence, environmental activism, feminism, ecological shifts due to the pandemic, the Chingada complex, mass shootings, industrial farming of animals, and death anxiety. Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire will be of interest to Jungian, psychoanalytic, and depth-oriented analysts and therapists engaged in how best to work with individual clients in a time of social, political, and environmental crisis. It will also be valuable for scholars interested in understanding the impact of contemporary, collective traumas on individual psychology.

Laura Camille Tuley, PhD, is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the coordinator and a faculty member of the New Orleans Jung Seminar of the IRSJA and Co-Editor of the 'Clinical Commentaries' and 'Film & Culture' features of The Journal of Analytical Psychology. Tuley has contributed to Psychological Perspectives, Exploring Depth Psychology and the Female Self: Feminist Themes from Somewhere, the New Orleans Review, Mothering in the Third Wave, Art Papers, Hypatia, and the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy. John R. White, PhD, is a Jungian psychoanalyst and philosopher. He is the coordinator of the C G Jung Institute Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh, president elect of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, scholar-in-residence at the Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and author of Adaptation and Psychotherapy: Langs and Analytical Psychology (2023).

1. Introduction 2. Our Climate Crisis. The Need for an Active Analyst when working with the Nature Archetype in Jungian Analysis 3. Archetypal Nonviolence in Analysis 4. The Dark Feminine Rising. A Psycho-Cultural and Clinical Meditation 5.The View to A Kill: Conscious Cruelty and the Role of Ambivalence in Our Use and Abuse of Non-Human Animals 6. Cuauhtémoc and the Other. Confronting the Chingada Complex 7. Finding your Inner Gun. A Jungian Perspective on Mass Shootings and American Gun Culture 8. An Ecological Future Beyond the Pandemic 9. The Jungian Analyst in Between Life and Death. Clinical Ethics in an Age of Pandemic