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Reflecting Critically on the Political Psyche: Therapy, Testament and Trouble in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis

Author(s) : Andrew Samuels

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Culture
1. Oh No! Not Another Chapter on ‘The Other’
2. Global Politics, American Hegemony and Vulnerability: Why There Are No Winners in the Battle Between Trickster Pedro Urdemales and the Gringos
3. Age is Just a Number: The Delusion of Maturity and the Fiction of Individuation
4. Politically Engaged Art as Inspiration in Clinic and in Culture – Plus a Reflection on the Dangers of Such a Thing

Part 2: Politics
5. The Rationality of Political Violence
6. The Role of the Individual in Progressive Politics – Possibilities and Impossibilities of ‘Making a Difference’
7. Taking the Green Agenda Out of the Margins – Psychological Strategies

Part 3: Therapy
8. Pluralism and Psychotherapy – What is a Good Training?
9. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Therapy (But Were Afraid to Ask: Social, Political, Economic and Clinical Fragments of a Critical Psychotherapy)

Part 4: Jungian
10. Political and Clinical Developments in Analytical Psychology Since 1972: Subjectivity, Equality and Diversity – Inside and Outside the Consulting Room
11. The Future of Jungian Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (‘SWOT’)
12. Jung and ‘Africans’: A Critical and Contemporary Review of Some of the Issues
13. Sinking Like a Stone: Activism, Analysis and the Role of the Academy

Part 5: Clinic
14. From Sexual Misconduct to Social Justice
15. The ‘Activist Client’: Social Responsibility, the Political Self, and Clinical Practice in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
16. The Transcendent Function and Politics: No!