Jung and Film II: The Return

Christopher Hauke, Luke Hockley

• List of Films. Hauke, Hockley, Introduction. Part I: Image and Psychotherapy. Klenck , Hurwitz, The Decisive Image in Documentary Film, in Jungian Analysis. Hewison, "I Thought He Might Be Better Now": A Clinician’s Reading of Individuation in Breaking The Waves. Zanardo, Love, Loss, Imagination and The Other in Soderbergh’s Solaris. Izod, Dovalis, Birth: Eternal Grieving of the Spotless Mind. Hauke, Soul and Space in No Country for Old Men. Part II: Image and Theory. Fredericksen, Jungian Film Studies: The Corruption of Consciousness and the Nurturing of Psychological Life. Hauke, "Much Begins Amusingly and Leads into the Dark": Jung’s Popular Cinema and the Other. Jacobs, Contrasting Interpretations of Film: Freudian and Jungian. Izod, Individual Interpretations: A Response to Michael Jacobs. Hockley, The Third Image: Depth Psychology and the Cinematic Experience. Rowland, The Nature of Adaptation: Myth and the Feminine Gaze in Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility. Singh, Cinephilia: Or, Looking for Meaningfulness in Encounters with Cinema. Miller, Twilight: Discourse Theory and Jung. Bassil-Morozow, Individual and Society in the Films of Tim Burton. Part III: Image, Type and Archetype. Dougherty, The Shadow: Constriction, Transformation and Individuation in Campion’s The Piano. Lennihan, The Dark Feminine in Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. Paganopoulos, The Archetype of Transformation in Maya Derren’s Film Rituals. Palmer, Coppola’s The Conversation: Typology and a Caul to the Soul. Waddell, Navel Gazing: Introversion/Extraversion and Australian Cinema. Beebe, The Wizard of Oz: A Vision of Development in the American Political Psyche.

"They're back! The relentless creative output of the post-Jungian critique of film rolls on and you can't ignore them. In this, their second volume of movie analyses, these writers – some academics, some clinicians, some both – have returned in strength. While many psychoanalytic approaches to the moving image are starting to feel a little... what shall we say?... tired, the Jung-dude abides! And judging by the take-up of the first Jung and Film by Media and Film departments, clinical trainings and industry creatives alike, the out of date resistance to all things Jungian has witnessed a fast dissolve. These chapters are erudite, funny, sexy, sometimes a little weird. They offer tight close-ups and wide shots. They tell you about the psychology of film and the psychology of those who make film. Like with Coppola's The Godfather – this sequel could be even better than what went before." - Andrew Samuels, University of Essex, UK