The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung by Susan Rowland


The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung
Title : The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung
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ISBN : 0415550947
ISBN-10 : 9780415550949
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 208
Publication : First published October 1, 2011

The Ecocritical Psyche unites literary studies, ecocriticism, Jungian ideas, mythology and complexity evolution theory for the first time, developing the aesthetic aspect of psychology and science as deeply as it explores evolution in Shakespeare and Jane Austen. In this book, Susan Rowland scrutinizes literature to understand how we came to treat 'nature' as separate from ourselves and encourages us to re-think what we call 'human.' By digging into symbolic, mythological and evolutionary fertility in texts such as The Secret Garden, The Tempest, Wuthering Heights and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , the book argues that literature is where the imagination, estranged from nature in modernity, is rooted in the non-human other.


The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung Reviews


  • David Levine

    Nature is the unconscious mind, which is the body.