Absolute Shadow - Destiny, Fate, Intergenerational Processes in Analytical Psychology

This book explores Jung's central concept of shadow from a particular configuration that the author calls "Absolute Shadow," placing it in relation to the idea of destiny as catastrophic.

List of contents

Concept of the Shadow in Jung's thought Introduction Part I 1. Destiny as a Sense of the Inevitable 2. The weight of the shadow 3. Journeys of life and Therapy: Five Clinical Cases 4. Destiny and Transgenerational Shadow PartII 5. Fate 6. Destiny and Individuation Process Conclusion Afterword by Fulvia De Benedittis, Sandra Fersurella, Silvia Presciuttini

About the author

Elena Caramazza, MD and Pediatrician, is an IAAP member, AIPA preceptor and Jungian analyst. She has published several papers and reviews concerning Jungian thought and analytical psychology and practices privately as an analyst in Rome. She is the author, with Murray Stein, of Temporality, Shame, and the Problem of Evil in Jungian Psychology: An Exchange of Ideas, (Routledge). She is the author of the book Silenzio a Praga (Moretti e Vitali) and also wrote a chapter "L'Ombra" in Trattato di Psicologia Analitica, UTET, 1992.

Summary

This book explores Jung’s central concept of shadow from a particular configuration that the author calls "Absolute Shadow," placing it in relation to the idea of destiny as catastrophic.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Caramazza, Caramazza Elena
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032200118
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3220011-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Jungian