Ann Belford Ulanov
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199735426
- eISBN:
- 9780199914524
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735426.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter considers the specific challenges involved in teaching Jung in a theological seminary and a graduate school of religion. The chapter rejects the view that faith might be a drawback to ...
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This chapter considers the specific challenges involved in teaching Jung in a theological seminary and a graduate school of religion. The chapter rejects the view that faith might be a drawback to effective teaching, a view common in secular settings and even in many departments of religion. Rather, it embraces faith as a resource in the study of the unconscious. Acknowledging that students of faith may experience fear of as well as fascination with the psyche, the chapter describes how it creates a space in the classroom to explore Jung's ideas by teaching Jung in relation to other major schools and perspectives.Less
This chapter considers the specific challenges involved in teaching Jung in a theological seminary and a graduate school of religion. The chapter rejects the view that faith might be a drawback to effective teaching, a view common in secular settings and even in many departments of religion. Rather, it embraces faith as a resource in the study of the unconscious. Acknowledging that students of faith may experience fear of as well as fascination with the psyche, the chapter describes how it creates a space in the classroom to explore Jung's ideas by teaching Jung in relation to other major schools and perspectives.
Laurence A. Rickels
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816666652
- eISBN:
- 9781452946566
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816666652.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
For years, the author of this book often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dick—though in fact he had never read any of the science fiction writer’s work. When he finally read his first ...
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For years, the author of this book often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dick—though in fact he had never read any of the science fiction writer’s work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, during research, it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dick’s writing as well as a recognition of the author’s own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is this text, a thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. This book explores the science fiction author’s meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dick’s science fiction, this book corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Dick’s popular and influential science fiction.Less
For years, the author of this book often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dick—though in fact he had never read any of the science fiction writer’s work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, during research, it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dick’s writing as well as a recognition of the author’s own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is this text, a thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. This book explores the science fiction author’s meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dick’s science fiction, this book corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Dick’s popular and influential science fiction.
Andrea Chiovenda
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190073558
- eISBN:
- 9780190073589
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190073558.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Theory
The conclusion to the book pulls together the many conceptual threads that emerged from the ethnographic material presented in the previous chapters. It argues for a human “shared psychic reality” ...
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The conclusion to the book pulls together the many conceptual threads that emerged from the ethnographic material presented in the previous chapters. It argues for a human “shared psychic reality” that can only be expressed and operationalized through the meanings given to it by the cultural world in which each individual is immersed and lives. Thus, while psychic mechanisms have to be “primed” by the individual’s cultural and social environment in order to function meaningfully, so also cultural material, in order to be understood, has to be approached by investigating the subjectivities and psychological dynamics of those who utilize it and produce it. This is particularly true in the realm of conflict, in all its connotations, which is a constant presence in the pages of the book. Indeed, power is here considered to be constitutive of all relations of interdependence between individuals, and not simply as something that someone has and others have not, whether when producing harmony or conflict.Less
The conclusion to the book pulls together the many conceptual threads that emerged from the ethnographic material presented in the previous chapters. It argues for a human “shared psychic reality” that can only be expressed and operationalized through the meanings given to it by the cultural world in which each individual is immersed and lives. Thus, while psychic mechanisms have to be “primed” by the individual’s cultural and social environment in order to function meaningfully, so also cultural material, in order to be understood, has to be approached by investigating the subjectivities and psychological dynamics of those who utilize it and produce it. This is particularly true in the realm of conflict, in all its connotations, which is a constant presence in the pages of the book. Indeed, power is here considered to be constitutive of all relations of interdependence between individuals, and not simply as something that someone has and others have not, whether when producing harmony or conflict.
Laurence A. Rickels
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816666652
- eISBN:
- 9781452946566
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816666652.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book analyzes the ouvre of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick and explores his meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. ...
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This book analyzes the ouvre of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick and explores his meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Dick died in the spring quarter of the author’s first (academic) year in California. For many years during his tenure at the University of California, students would claim to recognize Dick’s influence in his classes. They were each time surprised that he had never read any of Dick’s works. In time for the new millennium the author decided to read Dick’s The Divine Invasion, the second volume of the Valis trilogy and which includes representations of the Devil. The result of that engagement is this book, a thought experiment that focuses on Dick’s relevance as a pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary.Less
This book analyzes the ouvre of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick and explores his meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Dick died in the spring quarter of the author’s first (academic) year in California. For many years during his tenure at the University of California, students would claim to recognize Dick’s influence in his classes. They were each time surprised that he had never read any of Dick’s works. In time for the new millennium the author decided to read Dick’s The Divine Invasion, the second volume of the Valis trilogy and which includes representations of the Devil. The result of that engagement is this book, a thought experiment that focuses on Dick’s relevance as a pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary.
