Terror, Violence and the Impulse to Destroy
Perspectives from Analytical Psychology
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Publisher Description
These papers from the 2002 North American Conference of Jungian Analysts and Candidates address the process of terror as it confronts us in international situations and in outbreaks of violence in homes and schools. The thirteen contributors, seasoned Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, have often faced the reality of undermining destructiveness in their work with clients. Here they offer their theoretical and therapeutic insights, drawing from their experience of the psyche’s healing resources to identify the consciousness we need if we are to survive and reverse the contagion of hostility.
This book provides an opportunity to learn what can inform the human spirit to prevail over the forces that threaten its integrity and compassion.
Contents
Preface
by John Beebe
Explaining Evil
by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Kidnapping: Latin America’s Terror
by Jacqueline Gerson
A View from the Islamic Side: Terror, Violence, and Transformation in the Life of an Eleventh Century Muslim
by Judith Hecker
Archetypal Hatred as Social Bond: Strategies for its Dissolution
by John Dourley
Response to John Dourley
by Beverley Zabriskie
Escape/No Escape: The Persistence of Terror in the Lives of Two Women
by Mary Dougherty
Cultural Complexes and Archetypal Defenses of the Group Spirit
by Thomas Singer
Cultural Complexes and Collective Shadow Processes
by Samuel L. Kimbles
Blood Payments
by Sherry Salman
Music and the Psychology of Pacifism: Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem
by Arthur D. Colman
The Impulse to Destroy in Thomas Hardy’s Jude The Obscure
by Arlene TePaske Landau
Wrestling with God: From the Book of Job to the Poets of the Shoah
by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
Jung, Spielrein and Nash: Three Beautiful Minds Confronting the Impulse to Love or to Destroy in the Creative Process
by Brian Skea