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The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung Rowland, Susan (Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, USA) 1st edition
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The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung
Rowland, Susan (Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, USA)
The Ecocritical Psyche unites literary studies, ecocriticism, Jungian ideas, mythology and complexity evolution theory for the first time, developing the aesthetic aspect of psychology and science as deeply as it explores evolution in Shakespeare and Jane Austen.
In this book, Susan Rowland scrutinizes literature to understand how we came to treat 'nature' as separate from ourselves and encourages us to re-think what we call 'human.' By digging into symbolic, mythological and evolutionary fertility in texts such as The Secret Garden, The Tempest, Wuthering Heights and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the book argues that literature is where the imagination, estranged from nature in modernity, is rooted in the non-human other.
The Ecocritical Psyche is unique in its interdisciplinary expansion of literature, psyche, science and myth. It develops Jungian aesthetics to show how Jung's symbols correlate with natural signifying, providing analytical psychology with a natural home in ecocritical literary theory. The book is therefore essential reading for seasoned analysts and those in training as well as academics involved in literary studies and Jungian psychology.
208 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 20, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415550932 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 204 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 464 g |
| Language | English |
