Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Christmas: Origins, Motifs, and Psychological Significances
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 246
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Jung and Analytical Psychology - Catalogue No : 98188
- ISBN 13 : 9781032940373
- ISBN 10 : 1032940379
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Approaching Christmas from a Depth Psychology Perspective
2. Origins of the Feast of the Nativity
3. Pagan Synergy
4. The 12 Motifs of Christmas
5. Christmas and the Oedipal: Freud
6. Christmas and Mirroring: Kohut
7. Christmas and Regressive Peace/Progressing Wholeness: Jung
Conclusion
Appendix - The Biblical Description of Jesus as Twin Selfobject and Idealized Selfobject
Bibliography