These were metaphors my subconscious was using for the damaged or shadow parts of me that I had thrown out and locked away. During that time, I often dreamt I was being chased by monsters, wild beasts, murderers, and tramps. This trauma and botched integration led to me developing social anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and dissociation while at university. Then, in classic English fashion, I didn’t speak to anyone about the experience for years. On the trip, I had frozen out of fear and paranoia and felt terrified I’d done permanent damage to my brain. I suffered from post-traumatic stress for six years following a bad LSD trip when I was 18. That’s how the shadow appeared in my own nightmares when I was a young man. Jung suggested that the shadow aspects of our psyche can appear in dreams and visions as a sort of angry demonic figure-it might often appear as a “tramp”, a metaphor for all the parts of our psyche we’ve rejected and cast out as we try to construct a nice civilized persona. Then the scary monster would be transformed into an ally and helper. He thought we might be able to confront our subconscious shadows and transform them through courage, insight, and acceptance. While Freud thought civilized human beings were fated to be miserably divided from their primitive subconscious urges, Jung was more optimistic. We access that place of pain within us and slowly bring it into the open, become acquainted and then intimate with it, until the estranged pain is not a dreaded “it”, but a reclaimed “us”. Shadow work is counter-habitual: we turn towards pain, not away from pain. Our shadow is where our life force gets trapped and is no longer available to us. We all turn away from pain at some stage in our life, especially during our childhoods, yet whatever we have not processed gets relegated and hidden in our shadow. Giving deep insight in the dominant topic of our culture she deals with the archetypal roots, cultural complexes, scapegoating, alienation of the self and brings all the aspects down to the practical work in psychotherapy.Our shadow is everything inside us that we have disowned, avoided and kept in the dark. Her fascinating and differentiated work centers mainly on the modern faces of the foreigner. "Joanne Wieland-Burston having been herself involved with migration and alienation explores the theme of the foreigner from manifold angles based on her background as a Jungian analyst and her studies in literature and art history.
#THE MONSTER WITHIN ME CARL JUNG FULL#
This is a most timely and useful book, full of essential insights into the times we live in." - Murray Stein, PhD, author of Jung’s Map of the Soul "In this impressive and thoughtful book, Joanne Wieland-Burston helps us come to terms with the 'other' in ourselves and in the world around us. Psy., training psychoanalyst and supervisor former President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, former Professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Paris, and author of The Soul of Art: Analysis and Creation It provides observation, investigation, analysis, and personal experience that are of practical use to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, researchers in the social sciences, and each one of us." - Christian Gaillard, Dr. "Joanne Wieland-Burston offers us a book that is quite clear, profound, and excellently documented, on our relationship with the foreigner within us, around us, and afar. This book will be vital reading for Jungian psychotherapists and analytical psychologists in practice and in training, as well as for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, archetypal studies, identity politics, and courses examining the experiences of displaced persons, refugees, migrants and minority groups. Jung’s own reflections on himself as a foreigner and her own personal experiences.
Throughout this personal and highly topical study, Wieland-Burston questions and studies C. The book includes contemporary perspectives on immigration and displacement throughout, from analysing patient case material, the archetypal needs of people who join terrorist groups, feelings of alienation, and the work of Palestinian-German psychologist Ahmad Mansour. She analyses cultural approaches to the archetype of the foreigner throughout history using literary, cultural (as seen in mythological texts and fairy tales) and psychological references, and interprets the scapegoating of foreign minorities as a projection of the monster onto the foreigner. Joanne Wieland-Burston examines the question of the "foreign" and "foreigner" from multiple perspectives and explores how Jung and Freud were more interested in the wide phenomenon of the foreign in the unconscious rather than in their own personal lives. In this era of intense migration, the topic of the foreigner is of paramount importance.
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