Book: Jung and Cinema – Analytical Psychology through Films

The book Jung and Cinema: Analytical Psychology through Films is an excellent book for anyone interested in CG Jung’s Analytical Psychology.

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The various authors of the book – each author wrote a chapter – use renowned films from national and international cinema to analyze them from the perspective of Jungian psychology. Central concepts such as persona, shadow, anima/animus, psychic energy, spirituality are brought to the interpretation of the narratives, so that the reader can find in each chapter an in-depth reference to each concept, understanding it through the cinematographic language.

Let’s see the full summary:

Chapter 1) Psychic Energy: The Path of Transformation. Juliet of Spirits

Chap 2) The shadow and its opposites: paths of the soul. Archaic farming

Chapter 3) Persona. Adaptive mask or clothing of the naive? Truman. The Show of Life

Chapter 4) Pictorial art as a mirror of the animus. Frida Khalo.

Chapter 5) Decipher me or I’ll devour you. Anima’s Enigma for the Male Psyche. Talk to her.

Chapter 6) The exercise of fatherhood. Individuation of the Father and the Son. The Broken Embrace.

Chapter 7) Die to be reborn. Initiation to love. The Phantom of the Opera.

Chapter 8- Dreams – Oracles of the Unconscious. Wild Strawberries.

Chap 9) Metanoia. Configurations of a creative crisis. Felline 8 and a half.

Chapter 10) Alchemy and Transformation. American Beauty

Chap 11) Spirituality and Jung. Auto da Compadecida

Chapter 12) Death: The Awakening of a New Life. Love beyond life

Chapter 13) Telling stories. An archetypal image in soul retrieval. Fried Green Tomatoes.

Chapter 14) Cinema and the Unconscious

As we can see above, the films chosen by the authors are excellent films, of undeniable aesthetic value. The authors are formed in several areas, having diversified backgrounds, which contribute with different points of view, but always using the approach of Jungian Analytical Psychology.

Authors List:

Organizer: Dulcinea da Mata Ribeiro Monteiro Master in Education – UFRJ. Psychologist. Jungian analyst, teaching member of the Jungian Institute of Rio de Janeiro and the International Association for Analytical Psychology – IAAP. Professor of Postgraduate courses in Analytical Psychology at IBMR, and of Geriatrics and Gerontology at UERJ and Hospital Pró-Cardíaco. Gerontologist – Brazilian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology – SBGG. Consultant and Coordinator in a Retirement Preparation Program in companies.

Collaborators:

Andrea de Alvarenga Lima
Carlos Augusto Brandao
Dulcinea da Mata Ribeiro Monteiro
Eliane Berenice Frota Luconi
Helena Saldanha de Azevedo Santos
Humberto Oliveira
Maria Beatriz Vidigal Barbosa de Almeida
Maria Cristina Urrutigaray
Martha Carneiro Rezende
Mirna Brandao
Paula Roscio
Rubens Bragarnich
Sigrid Haikel
Silzen Furtado
Sonia Lyra

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