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This volume introduces readers to the work of Jungian psychoanalyst Ladson Hinton and his development of thought in the fields of psychoanalysis and existential philosophy throughout his career.
Working as an analyst for nearly 50 years, strongly emphasizing humility with a central focus on shame and temporality, this new volume edited by friend and colleague Hessel Willemsen encompasses reflections and writings dating from his emergence as a young analyst in 1975 through to present day. Mindful of the deep and considerable changes in contemporary society, his work provides a helpful lens for understanding how aspects of our politics, technologies, and social media underlie our contemporary loss of freedom of thought and experience amidst our time of ominous transitions. Chapters cover topics such as death, foolishness and shame, reconnecting with our animal soul, temporality and Jung's theoretical position on existential philosophy, among many others.
Psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, philosophers, anthropologists and academics and students engaged in cultural studies and critical theory will gain valuable insights from this book's rich and engaging variety of perspectives.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Love, Death and the Infernal Machine 2. An Interview with Ladson Hinton Conducted by Hessel Willemsen on 5th April 2021 3. Fools, Foolishness and Feeling Foolish 4. A Return to the Animal Soul 5. The Hunt for the Wild Unicorn: Containment, Sacrifice and Evolution 6. Black Holes, Uncanny Spaces and Radical Shifts in Awareness 7. The Enigmatic Signifier and the Decentred Subject 8. Unus Mundus - Transcendent Truth or Comforting Fiction? Overwhelm and the Search for Meaning in a Fragmented World 9. Temporality and the Torments of Time 10. Is Jung Existential or Not? Reflections on Temporality and Everydayness 11. Trauma, Shame and Enigma: Reflections on Joseph Conrad's
Lord Jim 12. Shame and Temporality in the Streets: Consumerism, Technology, Truth and Raw Life 13. Jung, Time and Ethics 14. The Unsilencing of Oedipus: Time, Monstrousness, Truth, and Shame 15. Man and Machine: Dilemmas of the Human
About the author
Hessel Willemsen, MA, MSc, DClinPsych (UK) is a training and supervising analyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology. He works as a Jungian psychoanalyst with adults and as a clinical psychologist with children and their parents in the field of child protection and custody. The book
Temporality and Shame: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, which he edited with Ladson Hinton, is winner of the '2018 American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Prize' for best edited book. He recently edited
Shame, Temporality and Social Change (Routledge, 2021), also with Ladson Hinton, which won the 2022 International Association of Jungian Studies' Award for best edited book.
