Loving's the Strange Thing

Jungian Individuation in the Fairy Tales of Carmen Martín Gaite
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78707-844-4
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, Band 77, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 370 g

Reihe: Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas

This groundbreaking volume argues that Carmen Martín Gaite and Carl Jung form an ideal combination. All the main features of the Jungian individuation process are present in the Spanish writer’s fairy tales: dreams, shadow figures, wise men and women, the Self, anima and animus. Martín Gaite has been described by the critic Salustiano Martín as trying to offer human beings a different way. In this accessible new study, Anne-Marie Storrs claims that this way is found through the process of individuation – the psychological development of a unique individual – and that aspects of the process are imaginatively depicted in the three shorter fairy tales, , and , and in the novel so closely linked with Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, .

Drawing on the work of Jungian writers to clarify and illuminate its argument, this book takes an entirely new perspective on Martín Gaite’s work and, in doing so, challenges the prejudice and suspicion that too many in the humanities and beyond continue to experience when they come face to face with Jung.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Storrs, Anne-Marie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS: A Natural Process: Individuation and the Impulse to Wholeness and Community – ‘Los informes vienen de todos lados’: Dreams in – ¿Cómo crecer? The Process of Individuation in – El quehacer más importante: Listening as Eros in – ‘A lo más oscuro amanece Dios’: The Dawning of the Self in – Concluding Thoughts

Über Autor(innen)

Anne-Marie Storrs holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh on the twentieth-century Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite. Her main research interests lie in the work of Martín Gaite explored from the perspective of Jungian psychology, with a particular focus on the individuation process, dreams and the symbolic life.