The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit

by Kalsched, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780415123297
• ISBN10: 0415123291
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317725442
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-23
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Psychoanalysis had its origins in a study of trauma and the 'rediscovery' of childhood physical and sexual abuse has again revived psychiatric interest in dissociative disorders resulting from trauma. In this throught-provoking book Donald E. Kalsched draws on his own clinical work to show the value of Jung's insights into the inner world of the psyche in treating such patients, especially those suffering from multiple personality disorder and post-traumatic stress. At the same time he proposes some revisions to Jung's theories in response to the findings of researchers and clinicians approaching the problem from different theoretical perspectives such as object relations and self psychology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	x
Introduction	1	(10)
Part I
The Inner World of Trauma in Its Diabolical Form	11	(30)
Jung and dissociation	12	(2)
Clinical example: the axeman	14	(5)
Mrs. Y. and the shotgunner	19	(9)
Mary and the food daimon	28	(13)
Further Clinical Illustrations of the Self-Care System	41	(27)
The little girl and the angel	41	(1)
Lenore and the fairy godmother	42	(5)
Gustav and his heavenly parents	47	(8)
Kaye and her dolphins	55	(4)
Patricia and the ghost-child: when the spirit returns to the body	59	(3)
Psychosomatic illness and the self-care system	62	(6)
Freud and Jung's Dialogue About Trauma's Inner World	68	(16)
Janet and the inner daimons	68	(1)
Trauma and Freud's discovery of psychical reality	69	(1)
The seduction theory	70	(1)
Jung's complex theory and trauma	71	(1)
The lady who lived on the moon	72	(4)
Trauma and the transpersonal in unconscious fantasy	76	(2)
Jung and Freud on the psyche's daimonic resistance to healing	78	(1)
Freud and the daimonic defenses of the unconscious	79	(5)
Jung's Contributions to a Theory of the Self-Care System	84	(16)
Jung's trauma and Atmavictu	84	(4)
Jung's mature thought on trauma	88	(4)
Jung and the attacking ``mind''	92	(4)
Jung's duplex Self: light and dark	96	(1)
Yahweh and the dark side of the Self	97	(3)
Additional Jungian Contributions	100	(15)
Erich Neumann and the distress ego of trauma	100	(1)
The London School and archetypal defenses	101	(2)
American Jungians	103	(6)
Popularized versions	109	(6)
Psychoanalytic Theory About the Self-Care System	115	(33)
Edmund Bergler and the self-damaging ``daimonion''	116	(1)
Odier and the malevolent/benevolent ``great beings''	117	(2)
Sandor Ferenczi and the caretaker self's transpersonal wisdom	119	(4)
Object-relations theorists	123	(19)
Part II
Introduction to Part II: Fairy Tales and the Two-Stage Incarnation of the Self	141	(1)
Transitional processes between the human and divine	142	(2)
Psychology's developmental questions	144	(1)
Transitional processes in fairy tales	145	(1)
Two-stage healing of the split in fairy tales	146	(2)
Rapunzel and the Self-Care System	148	(18)
Rapunzel patients	148	(2)
Rapunzel: part 1	150	(4)
Rapunzel: part 2	154	(4)
Rapunzel: part 3	158	(3)
Rapunzel: part 4	161	(5)
Psyche and Her Daimon-Lover	166	(18)
Eros and Psyche: part 1	184
Eros as daimon
Daimonic protection vs. imprisonment
The daimonic as jailer
The daimon-lover and fantasy
Fantasy as a defense against the symbolic
Individuation and the tug of reality
Eros and Psyche: part 2	178	(6)
Rage and the resistance to incarnation
Voluntary sacrifice and embodiment
Joy and the human/divine relationship
Fitcher's Bird and the Dark Side of the Self	184	(17)
Fitcher's Bird	185	(1)
The story: part 1	186	(9)
Love and aggression in the evolution of the healthy ego: Winnicott Clinical example
The dual nature of sacrifice in the transformation of the self-care system
Fitcher's Bird: part 2	195	(6)
Overcoming the wizard with the symbol
Prince Lindworm and Transformation of the Daimonic Through Sacrifice and Choice	201	(15)
Prince Lindworm: the story	201	(2)
The motif of the child and childlessness	203	(1)
Refusal to choose	204	(1)
The melancholic world of fantasy in the self-care system	205	(1)
Julia Kristeva and the ``black sun''	206	(1)
Excursus on the defensive uses of the numinous	207	(2)
Prince Lindworm as a twin	209	(1)
The worm-prince and the king or queen/baby dyad	210	(1)
Shepherd's daughter and crone as positive dyad of the Self	211	(2)
Rage and the transformation of Prince Lindworm	213	(1)
A moment of compassion	213	(2)
Concluding remarks	215	(1)
Notes	216	(3)
Bibliography	219	(7)
Index	226