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The One Mind

C. G. Jung and the future of literary criticism

By: Matthew A. Fike

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The One Mind

C. G. Jung and the future of literary criticism

By: Matthew A. Fike

The One Mind: C. G. Jung and the Future of Literary Criticism explores the implications of C. G. Jung's unus mundus by applying his writings on the metaphysical, the paranormal, and the quantum to literature. As Jung knew, everything is connected because of its participation in universal consciousness, which encompasses all that is, including the collective unconscious. Matthew A. Fike argues that this principle of unity enables an approach in which psychic functioning is both a subject and a means of discovery—psi phenomena evoke the connections among the physical world, the psyche, and the spiritual realm. Applying the tools of Jungian literary criticism in new ways by expanding their scope and methodology, Fike discusses the works of Hawthorne, Milton, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and lesser-known writers in terms of issues from psychology, parapsychology, and physics. Topics include the case for monism over materialism, altered states of consciousness, types of psychic functioning, UFOs, synchronicity, and space-time relativity. The One Mind examines Goodman Brown's dream, Adam's vision in Paradise Lost, the dream sequence in "The Wanderer," the role of metaphor in Robert A. Monroe's metaphysical trilogy, Orfeo Angelucci's work on UFOs, and the stolen boat episode in Wordsworth's The Prelude. The book concludes with case studies on Robert Jordan and William Blake. Considered together, these readings bring us a significant step closer to a unity of psychology, science, and spirituality. The One Mind illustrates how Jung's writings contain the seeds of the future of literary criticism. Reaching beyond archetypal criticism and postmodern theoretical approaches to Jung, Fike proposes a new school of Jungian literary criticism based on the unitary world that underpins the collective unconscious. This book will appeal to scholars of C. G. Jung as well as students and readers with an interest in psychoanalysis, literature, literary theory, and the history of ideas.

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113461196X

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Anima and Africa

Jungian Essays on Psyche, Land, and Literature

By: Matthew A. Fike

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Anima and Africa

Jungian Essays on Psyche, Land, and Literature

By: Matthew A. Fike

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1 Ernest Hemingway's Francis Macomber in "God's Country"--2 The Anima's Many Faces in Henry Rider Haggard's She -- 3 The Anima and Psychic Fragmentation in Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm -- 4 "The Reality of the Singular": Anima and Unus Mundus in Laurens van der Post's A Story Like the Wind and A Far-Off Place -- 5 "We are All Sailors": C.G. Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections and Doris Lessing's Briefing for a Descent into Hell -- 6 "Not a Bad Man But Not Good Either": The Anima and Individuation in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace -- 7 "The Eyes in the Trees are Watching": The Dissociated Anima and African Agency in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible -- 8 Mother is Not Supreme: The Anima and (Post)Colonial Strife in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Nadine Gordimer's July's People -- 9 The Anima and Shadow Dynamics in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko -- Works Cited -- Index

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Taylor & Francis

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1351850814

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Four Novels in Jung’s 1925 Seminar

Literary Discussion and Analytical Psychology

By: Matthew A. Fike

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Four Novels in Jung’s 1925 Seminar

Literary Discussion and Analytical Psychology

By: Matthew A. Fike

C. G. Jung believed that popular fiction often conveyed unvarnished psychological truths. In this volume, Matthew A. Fike skillfully analyzes the novels under consideration in Jung’s 1925 seminar on analytical psychology, corrects Jung’s ill-informed perspectives, and sheds light on a neglected area of Jungian literary studies. Jung originally planned to discuss several novels about the anima—Henry Rider Haggard’s She, Pierre Benoît’s L’Atlantide, and Gustav Meyrink’s The Green Face. At the request of his participants, he dropped Meyrink and included a text about the animus, Marie Hay’s The Evil Vineyard. Fike demonstrates that Haggard’s She and Benoît’s L’Atlantide portray anima possession, the visionary and psychological modes, and traditional versus Jungian approaches to history. Meyrink’s smorgasbord of Jungian theory and religion makes The Green Face a fictional counterpart to The Red Book, and both Meyrink and Hay depict states of higher consciousness that transcend the archetypes. The distinction between archetypal and spiritual possession demonstrates that The Evil Vineyard is a ghost story, and the study concludes with Hay’s dozens of allusions, which provide important metacommentary. Four Novels in Jung’s 1925 Seminar, the first comprehensive study of all four texts, complements seminal works by Cornelia Brunner and Barbara Hannah, critiques the seminar discussion recorded in William McGuire’s edition of Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925 by C. G. Jung, and incorporates Jung’s own comments on the four novels in The Collected Works. Thus, it provides an essential addition to Jungian literary studies and will appeal both to students and practitioners of Jungian analytical psychology and to scholars of British, French, and German literature.

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100002671X

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Light at Midnight

A European Journey

By: Matthew Fike

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Light at Midnight

A European Journey

By: Matthew Fike

Light at Midnight chronicles Matthew A. Fike's adventures and misadventures as a founding faculty member of the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), the first American liberal arts institution in Central or Eastern Europe. During his self-imposed exile, Fike loved well, fought hard, enjoyed terrific friendships, deepened his pedagogical and scholarly portfolios, bought and lived on a high-end blue water sailboat, experienced a minor psychic awakening, visited the afterlife, and traveled to Moscow to find romance. In the course of these events, however, his exile from traumatic experiences in the Midwest became A European Journey to greater self-understanding. This book thus provides not only an eyewitness to a key moment in the history of higher education but also a well-written, brutally honest, and often hilarious account of a young man's coming of age.

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1441587306

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The One Mind

C. G. Jung and the future of literary criticism

By: Matthew A. Fike

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1134611897

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Anima and Africa

Jungian Essays on Psyche, Land, and Literature

By: Matthew A. Fike

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Anima and Africa

Jungian Essays on Psyche, Land, and Literature

By: Matthew A. Fike

C. G. Jung understood the anima in a wide variety of ways but especially as a multifaceted archetype and as a field of energy. In Anima and Africa: Jungian Essays on Psyche, Land, and Literature, Matthew A. Fike uses these principles to analyze male characters in well-known British, American, and African fiction. Jung wrote frequently about the Kore (maiden, matron, crone) and the "stages of eroticism" (Eve, Mary, Helen, Sophia). The feminine principle’s many aspects resonate throughout the study and are emphasized in the opening chapters on Ernest Hemingway, Henry Rider Haggard, and Olive Schreiner. The anima-as-field can be "tapped" just as the collective unconscious can be reached through nekyia or descent. These processes are discussed in the middle chapters on novels by Laurens van der Post, Doris Lessing, and J. M. Coetzee. The final chapters emphasize the anima’s role in political/colonial dysfunction in novels by Barbara Kingsolver, Chinua Achebe/Nadine Gordimer, and Aphra Behn. Anima and Africa applies Jung’s African journeys to literary texts, explores his interest in Haggard, and provides fresh insights into van der Post’s late novels. The study discovers Lessing’s use of Jung’s autobiography, deepens the scholarship on Coetzee’s use of Faust, and explores the anima’s relationship to the personal and collective shadow. It will be essential reading for academics and scholars of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, literary studies, and postcolonial studies, and will also appeal to analytical psychologists and Jungian psychotherapists in practice and in training.

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Four Novels in Jung’s 1925 Seminar

Literary Discussion and Analytical Psychology

By: Matthew A. Fike

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