Imposter Syndrome and The ‘As-If’ Personality in Analytical Psychology
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Imposter Syndrome and The ‘As-If’ Personality in Analytical Psychology

The Fragility of Self

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eBook - ePub

Imposter Syndrome and The ‘As-If’ Personality in Analytical Psychology

The Fragility of Self

About this book

This insightful book explores the 'as-if' personality through the lens of Jungian analytical psychology, illuminating how the same forces that can disturb personal development relationally, socially and culturally are equally an impetus toward expressing and relating with one's more complete self.

The book describes persons expressing an 'as if' personality as facing a conundrum around whether to hide or expose the truth of who they are. It describes the analytic container as a place of growth from that place, affecting person and culture, self and other. Using a myriad of clinical examples (across a range of cultures, contexts and personal experiences), the author describes people who are moving through feelings of not belonging, sexual addiction, ageing, the cultural influence of social media, the role of the father, and body image challenges. All these issues reveal the valuable recognition of the unconscious- a hallmark of Jungian analytical psychology- incorporates the dissociated others into selfhood. The theories of French psychoanalysts Andre Green on absence and the negative, Julia Kristeva on abjection, French philosopher Jacques Derrida on Narcissus and Echo and American philosopher Judith Butler on precarity expand the Jungian analytical thought to reflect the multiplicity of the psyche.

Using understandable language to interweave various psychoanalytical and philosophical frameworks, Imposter Syndrome and the 'As-If' Personality in Analytical Psychology: The Fragility of Self is both accessible to general readers and highly relevant to professional analysts, therapists, clinicians and social workers.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781000956832

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half-Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Credits
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 As-if defined
  12. 2 Through the looking glass of persona
  13. 3 The presence of the father’s shadow
  14. 4 The refusal of twoness in sexual addiction and pornography
  15. 5 This is a love story: Echo and Narcissus
  16. 6 Blank, void, emptiness
  17. 7 Envy as a disturbed search for self
  18. 8 The encounter of transferences
  19. 9 Ageing, image and illusion
  20. 10 Body fragility
  21. 11 Longing to belong: Culture, complex and analysis
  22. 12 Living on
  23. Index