Terror, violence, and the impulse to destroy : perspectives from analytical psychology

These papers address the process of terror as it confronts us in international situations and in outbreaks of violence in homes and schools. The thirteen contributors, seasoned Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, have often faced the reality of undermining destructiveness in their work with clients. Here they offer their theoretical and therapeutic insights, drawing from their experience of the psyche’s healing resources to identify the consciousness we need if we are to survive and reverse the contagion of hostility.
This book provides an opportunity to learn what can inform the human spirit to prevail over the forces that threaten its integrity and compassion.

Contents

John Beebe: Preface

Clarissa Pinkola Estés: Explaining Evil

Jacqueline Gerson: Kidnapping - Latin America’s Terror

Judith Hecker: A View from the Islamic Side: Terror, Violence, and Transformation in the Life of an Eleventh Century Muslim

John Dourley: Archetypal Hatred as Social Bond: Strategies for its Dissolution
Beverley Zabriskie: Response to John Dourley

Mary Dougherty: Escape/No Escape - The Persistence of Terror in the Lives of Two Women

Thomas Singer: Cultural Complexes and Archetypal Defenses of the Group Spirit

Samuel L. Kimbles: Cultural Complexes and Collective Shadow Processes

Sherry Salman: Blood Payments
Arthur D. Colman: Music and the Psychology of Pacifism - Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem

Arlene TePaske Landau: The Impulse to Destroy in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky: Wrestling with God - From the Book of Job to the Poets of the Shoah

Brian Skea: Jung, Spielrein, and Nash - Three Beautiful Minds Confronting the Impulse to Love or to Destroy in the Creative Process