S. G. Ellerhoff

Jung and Star Wars

A Contemporary Mythology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jung and Star Wars is a comprehensive deep dive, analyzing the Star Wars phenomenon from the perspective of analytical psychology as a living mythology in our time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781041033530
• ISBN-10: 1041033532
• Artikelnr.: 73779325

Autorenporträt

S.G. Ellerhoff is an independent scholar who holds a PhD in literature from the School of English at Trinity College Dublin and is a worker-owner and Associate Editor at Tsunami Books & Press. He was a board member of the local nonprofit Eugene Friends of Jung, bringing Jungian psychologists to Oregon to speak and lead workshops several times a year. Recently he started running seminars based on this work, in a series called May the Force be with Jung.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. A Synoptic Star Wars: Disney's Best-Laid Plans to Canonize
a Living Mythology 2. The Force, Jedi, and Sith in Jungian Terms 3.
Yoda: From Green-Man Senex to Divine Child 4. Palpatine: Dark-Side Senex of
Absolute Evil 5. Possession by Affect in Anakin Skywalker's Quest for
Control 6. "One Destroyed Being": The Splinter Psyche and Redemption of
Darth Vader 7. The Transcendent Function and Luke Skywalker's New Ethic of
Balance 8. Leia: Archetypal Antiprincess, Huttslayer, Mother 9. The
Falconer Can Hear the Wildman: Han Solo's Individuation 10. Reylo:
Coniunctio of a Dyad in the Force Epilogue