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Jung and the Dreaming: Analytical Psychologys Encounters with Aboriginal CultureUniversity of Queensland, Leon_Petchkovsky{at}health.qld.gov.au
University of Queensland
University of Queensland This article reviews some contributions of the Jungian analytic tradition to indigenous ethnopsychiatric thought in Australia. The authors review Jungs writings on Aboriginal culture, then describe some of their own fieldwork findings. Acknowledging that the contemporary post-Jungian tradition is pluralist, they propose a notion of Jungian sensibility. They discuss some of the ways in which the Jungian sensibility might contribute positively to Aboriginal mental health, with especial reference to theories of subjectivity, and note that some Aboriginal people find the Jungian world-view very compatible with the Aboriginal one.
Key Words: Aborigines Australia endopsychic perception Jungian transcendentalism the Dreaming theories of subjectivity
Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 40, No. 2,
208-238 (2003) |
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