Foreword by Polly Young-Eisendrath. Introduction. 1. Jung’s Early America: Racial Relations and Racism 2. The Reality of Racial Chains and the Myth of Freedom 3. American Racial Black and White Complexes 4 Africanist Traditions and African American Culture 5. African Archetypal Primordial: A map for Jungian psychology 6. Archetypal Grief of African American Women 7. The Jungian Shadow 8. The Dreamers of Saint Elizabeth Hospital 9. African American Cultural Consciousness and the Jungian Collective 10. The Promise of Diversity 11. Summary: Healing through an Africanist Perspective. Index.
Fanny Brewster, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York and Professor of Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a member of the Association of Black Psychologists and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts, and has been twice nominated for the Gradiva Award for her nonfiction writing.
"African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows
brilliantly captures the essence of American Jungian Psychology and
its relationship to African Americans. Fanny Brewster has written a
ground-breaking book essential to our understanding of Jungian
Psychology, and its influence on how we perceive and interact with
one another in American society based on racial preconceptions. As
we witness the beginning of new political and social movements in
our country, this book is uncannily timely in its historical view
of African American culture, racial complexes, and the
psychological divide due to racial tensions in America." - Laura
Wexler, author of Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in
America"In this rich exploration of the psychological legacy of
slavery and modern day racism, Fanny Brewster manages to hold to
the value of Jung’s ideas whilst also offering a serious critique
of the racist roots of some of his concepts. In so doing she offers
a crucial and potentially creative challenge to our Jungian
community which largely persists in turning a blind eye to these
matters and remains predominantly white. Whilst of considerable
interest to anyone concerned with the psychology of racism, this
book should be essential reading for all who consider themselves
Jungians on both sides of the Atlantic." - Helen Morgan, Jungian
analyst and Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council"Fanny
Brewster in her compelling book on African Americans and Jungian
Psychology, makes visible what she calls a racial complex that has
operated from the beginning birth pangs of Analytical Psychology
with Carl Jung’s own blindness to the current cultural context in
his theory of archetypal psychology, to the silence of the Jungian
community over the past nearly one hundred years to redress and
address the blank spaces around race in the development of its
theories and practices. The failure to include those forces that
continues to generate the expressions of racial tensions and
violence that appear daily in our newspaper and social media and
the lives of many of our patients of color perpetuates another kind
of invisibility.Fanny’s narrative is a weaving of her fertile
imagination in a way that opens Jung and analytical psychology’s
relationship to race and its cultural context of the presence of
some of the same societal tensions that can be found haunting our
analytical thinking and practices. She challenges the reader to
locate him or herself in this current narrative so as to have an
encounter with the other." - Samuel Kimbles, Jungian Analyst, San
Francisco, US and author of Phantom Narratives: The Unseen
Contributions of Culture to Psyche"African Americans and Jungian
Psychology is a revelatory, bold, courageous, and fascinating book
that provides an examination and a critique of Jungian Psychology.
The book champions the inclusion of Africa’s contribution to the
field of Jung Psychology, and for inclusion of people of color in
treatment utilizing a Jungian psychological approach. African
Americans and Jungian Psychology provides the reader with a
powerful look into both historical, and contemporary views of
Jungian Psychology and its relationship with African Americans. It
is the first book of its kind providing insights never before
explored." - Juwayriah J. Hassan, Certified Gestalt
Psychotherapist, Staff Management Coach and Training Consultant
"This is an exceptional scholarly and penetrating analysis into the
Eurocentric roots of Jungian psychoanalysis and the challenges that
it faces in order to become more relevant in today’s ethnic and
racial divisive world, especially as it pertains to African
Americans. Dr. Brewster observes how all of the Jungian complexes
have been amplified by later theoreticians, with the one exception
of the racial complex; this focused avoidance is what impedes
Jungian psychology from any significant contribution to the
American racial dilemma. This theoretical negation preempts the
required knowledge and therefore empathy required and so
beautifully explained by Dr. Brewster: 'When the African American
client arrives for psychoanalysis this is the sorrow of generations
that arrives with them- there is no way to leave it outside the
door.' While this book is specifically illustrative of the
challenges for the Jungian school of thought, I believe that it has
much for all psychoanalysts to digest regardless of their analytic
persuasion. I recommend this book for analysts who understand that
issues of race and racism impact the analytic dyad, regardless of
their racial composition." - Kirkland C. Vaughans, Ph.D., author of
Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents
"African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows
brilliantly captures the essence of American Jungian Psychology and
its relationship to African Americans. Fanny Brewster has written a
ground-breaking book essential to our understanding of Jungian
Psychology, and its influence on how we perceive and interact with
one another in American society based on racial preconceptions. As
we witness the beginning of new political and social movements in
our country, this book is uncannily timely in its historical view
of African American culture, racial complexes, and the
psychological divide due to racial tensions in America." - Laura
Wexler, author of Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in
America"In this rich exploration of the psychological legacy of
slavery and modern day racism, Fanny Brewster manages to hold to
the value of Jung’s ideas whilst also offering a serious critique
of the racist roots of some of his concepts. In so doing she offers
a crucial and potentially creative challenge to our Jungian
community which largely persists in turning a blind eye to these
matters and remains predominantly white. Whilst of considerable
interest to anyone concerned with the psychology of racism, this
book should be essential reading for all who consider themselves
Jungians on both sides of the Atlantic." - Helen Morgan, Jungian
analyst and Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council"Fanny
Brewster in her compelling book on African Americans and Jungian
Psychology, makes visible what she calls a racial complex that has
operated from the beginning birth pangs of Analytical Psychology
with Carl Jung’s own blindness to the current cultural context in
his theory of archetypal psychology, to the silence of the Jungian
community over the past nearly one hundred years to redress and
address the blank spaces around race in the development of its
theories and practices. The failure to include those forces that
continues to generate the expressions of racial tensions and
violence that appear daily in our newspaper and social media and
the lives of many of our patients of color perpetuates another kind
of invisibility.Fanny’s narrative is a weaving of her fertile
imagination in a way that opens Jung and analytical psychology’s
relationship to race and its cultural context of the presence of
some of the same societal tensions that can be found haunting our
analytical thinking and practices. She challenges the reader to
locate him or herself in this current narrative so as to have an
encounter with the other." - Samuel Kimbles, Jungian Analyst, San
Francisco, US and author of Phantom Narratives: The Unseen
Contributions of Culture to Psyche"African Americans and Jungian
Psychology is a revelatory, bold, courageous, and fascinating book
that provides an examination and a critique of Jungian Psychology.
The book champions the inclusion of Africa’s contribution to the
field of Jung Psychology, and for inclusion of people of color in
treatment utilizing a Jungian psychological approach. African
Americans and Jungian Psychology provides the reader with a
powerful look into both historical, and contemporary views of
Jungian Psychology and its relationship with African Americans. It
is the first book of its kind providing insights never before
explored." - Juwayriah J. Hassan, Certified Gestalt
Psychotherapist, Staff Management Coach and Training
Consultant"This is an exceptional scholarly and penetrating
analysis into the Eurocentric roots of Jungian psychoanalysis and
the challenges that it faces in order to become more relevant in
today’s ethnic and racial divisive world, especially as it pertains
to African Americans. Dr. Brewster observes how all of the Jungian
complexes have been amplified by later theoreticians, with the one
exception of the racial complex; this focused avoidance is what
impedes Jungian psychology from any significant contribution to the
American racial dilemma. This theoretical negation preempts the
required knowledge and therefore empathy required and so
beautifully explained by Dr. Brewster: 'When the African American
client arrives for psychoanalysis this is the sorrow of generations
that arrives with them- there is no way to leave it outside the
door.' While this book is specifically illustrative of the
challenges for the Jungian school of thought, I believe that it has
much for all psychoanalysts to digest regardless of their analytic
persuasion. I recommend this book for analysts who understand that
issues of race and racism impact the analytic dyad, regardless of
their racial composition." - Kirkland C. Vaughans, Ph.D., author of
Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents
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