Jung Arena

Midlife Transformation in Literature and Film

Jungian and Eriksonian Perspectives

• By Steven F. Walker.

Published November 2011

In this book, Steven F. Walker considers the midlife transition from a Jungian and Eriksonian perspective, by providing vivid and powerful literary and cinematic examples that illustrate the psychological theories in a clear and entertaining way. For C.G. Jung, midlife is a time for personal…
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The Trickster in Contemporary Film

• By Helena Bassil-Morozow.

Published October 2011

This book discusses the role of the trickster figure in contemporary film against the cultural imperatives and social issues of modernity and postmodernity, and argues that cinematic tricksters always reflect psychological, economic and social change in society. It covers a range of films, from…
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Jung and Film II: The Return

Further Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image

• Edited by Christopher Hauke, and Luke Hockley.

Published June 2011

Since Jung and Film was first published in 2001, Jungian writing on the moving image in film and television has accelerated. Jung and Film II: The Return provides new contributions from authors across the globe willing to tackle the broader issues of film production and consumption, the audience…
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Filming the Nation

Jung, Film, Neo-Realism and Italian National Identity

• By Donatella Spinelli Coleman.

Published December 2010

Italian neo-realism has inspired film audiences and fascinated critics and film scholars for decades. This book offers an original analysis of the movement and its defining films from the perspective of the cultural unconscious. Combining a Jungian reading with traditional theorizations of film…
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House: The Wounded Healer on Television

Jungian and Post-Jungian Reflections

• Edited by Luke Hockley, and Leslie Gardner.

Published November 2010

House MD is a globally successful and long-running medical drama. House: The Wounded Healer on Television employs a Jungian perspective to examine the psychological construction of the series and its namesake, Dr Gregory House. The book also investigates the extent to which the continued…
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Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd

A Post-Jungian Perspective

• By Helena Bassil-Morozow.

Published February 2010

Tim Burton’s films are well known for being complex and emotionally powerful. In this book, Helena Bassil-Morozow employs Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of unconscious mental processes along with film semiotics, analysis of narrative devices and cinematic history, to explore the reworking of…
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Wild/lives

Trickster, Place and Liminality on Screen

• By Terrie Waddell.

Published September 2009

Wild/lives draws on myth, popular culture and analytical psychology to trace the machinations of 'trickster' in contemporary film and television. This archetypal energy traditionally gravitates toward liminal spaces – physical locations and shifting states of mind. By focusing on productions set in…
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Film After Jung

Post-Jungian Approaches to Film Theory

• By Greg Singh.

Published May 2009

Popular film as a medium of communication, expression and storytelling has proved one of the most durable and fascinating cultural forms to emerge during the twentieth century, and has long been the object of debate, discussion and interpretation. Film After Jung provides the reader with an…
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Screen, Culture, Psyche

A Post Jungian Approach to Working with the Audience

• By John Izod.

Published July 2006

Screen, Culture, Psyche illuminates recent developments in Jungian modes of media analysis, and illustrates how psychoanalytic theories have been adapted to allow for the interpretation of films and television programmes, employing Post-Jungian methods in the deep reading of a whole range of films.…
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Mis/takes

Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction

• By Terrie Waddell.

Published June 2006

Mis/takes departs from the bulk of screen discourse by applying Jungian and Post-Jungian ideas on unconscious processes to popular film and television. This perspective offers a rich insight into the way that various myths infiltrate popular culture. By examining the function of psychological…
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