Psyche Science and Society

<p>In this new volume Gavin Walker attempts to open a conversation between sociology and Jungian psychology both often overlooked by each other through a series of wide-ranging essays.</p> <p></p> <p>This book provides a Jungian counterpoint to the more accepted Freudian perspective in sociology by engaging with several key themes including race gender urban sociology religion and the environment. The chapters here consider methodological issues such as how Jungian psychology might contribute to our understanding of human nature and Jung's - and sociology's - complex and manylevelled relationship with anthropology. As a whole this unique work provides an open-ended exploration of what sociology includes and excludes from its agenda and asks how engagement with Jung might shift the centre of gravity of a heterogeneous discipline.</p> <p></p><i> <p>Psyche Science and Society </i>will be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of analytical psychology and sociology as well as psychoanalysis anthropology feminism environmentalism comparative religion and the history of science.</p>