Table of Contents

Preface.Imaginal Psychology. For Love of the Imagination: Why I Became a Psychotherapist. Imaginology: The Jungian Study of the Imagination. Imaginology Overboard with a Shark and an Octopus: How to Do Things with Images that Do Things. Golden Calf Psychology: James Hillman Alone in Pursuit of the Imagination. Jungian Interdisciplinary Applications. Cultural Applications. The Islamic Cultural Unconscious in the Dreams of a Contemporary Muslim Man. The Sable Venus on the Middle Passage: Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Economic and Political Applications. The Invisible Hand and the Economic Unconscious: The Most Important Image of the Last 250 Years. Obama and Icarus: Political Heroism, "Newspaper Mythology," and the Economic Crisis of 2008. Literary and Artistic Applications. Getting a Kick out of Captain Ahab: The Merman Dream in Moby-Dick. "It Was All a Mistake": Jung’s Postcards to Ernest Jones and Kipling’s Short Story "The Phantom ’Rickshaw". William Blake, Visionary Art, and the Return of Odysseus: Homeric Mythology, Neoplatonic Philosophy, and Jungian Psychology. The 2011 Moscow Lectures on Jungian Psychoanalysis. The Mythological Unconscious in Moscow: A Dream of a Russian-American Woman in New York. The Metaphor of Metamorphosis: Change in Myth and Psyche. O Baal, Hear Us: Active Imagination and the Mythological Unconscious.

About the Author

Michael Vannoy Adams is an internationally prominent Jungian psychoanalyst in New York City. He is a clinical associate professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is also a faculty member at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and the New School, where he was previously associate provost. He is the author of The Fantasy Principle: Psychoanalysis of the Imagination (Routledge, 2004) and The Multicultural Imagination: "Race," Color, and the Unconscious (Routledge, 1996). He is the recipient of three Gradiva Awards from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. He has been a Marshall scholar in England and a Fulbright senior lecturer in India.

For information about Jungian psychoanalysis, visit Michael Vannoy Adams’s Web site: www.jungnewyork.com.