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Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land

Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land

West, Rinda

Paperback

Series: Under the Sign of Nature

Literary CriticismEnvironmental StudiesNature Writing

ISBN10: 0813926564
ISBN13: 9780813926568
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Nov 1 2007
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.29 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

In western culture, the separation of humans from nature has contributed to a schism between the conscious reason and the unconscious dreaming psyche, or internal human nature. Our increasing lack of intimacy with the land has led to a decreased capacity to access parts of the psyche not normally valued in a capitalist culture. In Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land, Rinda West uses Jung's idea of the shadow to explore how this divorce results in alienation, projection, and often breakdown. Bringing together ideas from analytical psychology, environmental thought, and literary studies, West explores a variety of literary texts--including several by contemporary American Indian writers--to show, through a sort of geography of the psyche, how alienation from nature reflects a parallel separation from the nature that constitutes the unconscious.

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