Routledge Mental Health

In recent years, there has been an impressive growth in a Jungian approach to film in new books, articles and academic institutions.

Indeed, it has been surprising how psychoanalytic discourse has dominated the field when it is Jungian psychology that has paid careful attention to the image – whether produced in dreams, in myth, in imagination or as an expression of creativity – such as movies.

Jung’s reputation – and the way in which scholars and analysts have developed his psychological ideas – now establishes him as one of the most interesting figures in many academic areas such as literary studies, politics, religious studies, as well as film.