Thesis (D. Min.)--Denver Seminary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2008. / A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Psychology in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliography.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Denver Seminary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. A.) -- Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2006. / Production thesis: contains podcasts by the author. Includes bibliography.

This thesis is directed towards investigating the nature of English language learning in a foundation-year programme in one public university in the United Arab Emirates. The aims of the thesis were based on the need to provide a possible explanation for the significant number of learners achieving low results, or failing their English language courses, in this programme. It was felt that a critical Jungian perspective could help uncover the existence in the Emirati tertiary system of both conscious and unconscious student resistance to English and of, synchronous, discursive forms of linguistic imperialism. This notion was based on findings in the literature, principally in Analytical Psychology, which suggest that the individual psyche is composed of profound and powerful personal and collective unconscious elements as well as critical theory, which maintains that the language classroom cannot be extricated from the influence of surrounding political, or even geopolitical, forces. The thesis sought, through the use of both a critical discourse analysis and critically-oriented case studies, to provide insight into the nature of the dialectical tension believed to exist, in this milieu, between the propagators of the language and those adopting it. The findings provided considerable evidence of a tension operating both at the discursive level and at the psychological level in the use of English in the foundation-year programme. The findings suggested that the discourse presented to learners, from western textbook writers and editors, is heavily Anglo-Saxon in its use of motifs and topics and that there is room, at least on a macrostructural level, to offset this tendency and reconsider the cultural weighting of topical content so as to more appropriately cater to an Arabic and Muslim audience. Also, the primary data revealed that the study’s participants were critical of the use of English as the university’s medium of instruction and there was consensus among them that a significant number of Emirati students, as well as some members of the public, were not receptive to the intrusion of this foreign language into their lives. Critical Discourse Analysis and critical case studies were combined in the shaping of the research methodology and this enabled the researcher to gain an in-depth and qualitative insight into the nature of English propagation and adoption. Key data collected from the research interviews was placed into a Jungian taxonomy and combined with the critical discourse analysis. Upon examination, it provided the researcher with information, supported by relevant literature, that led to a number of recommendations directed, in particular, to language teachers (and publishers) regarding the need to shape discourse to cater to the cultural needs of the learners and to consider the psychological impact that the tertiary English language policy was having on the Arab student body. The thesis strongly maintains that the discursive content of the language materials delivered to such students needs to be more extensively adapted in order to cater to the student body so as to minimize, as much as possible, potential cultural alienation. It also advocates the provision of Jungian psychological counseling in English language programmes because it would encourage policy makers to acknowledge the role of the unconscious in learning as well as provide invaluable support to language learners who are experiencing conscious or unconscious resistance to the English language in such a setting.

vi, 63 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / In 1927, James Weldon Johnson published God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, a book of poems based on sermons heard in the African American Church. There are eight accompanying illustrations by Aaron Douglas. These images visually interpret the subject matter of the poems in a style that blends Cubism, Orphism, and Art Deco. Douglas depicted all the figures in these images, human and supernatural, in the form of shadow silhouettes, a stylistic practice he continued throughout his artistic career. The shadow is an ancient archetype in human mythology and psychology. This thesis looks at the depiction of shadows in a Jungian context. I explore the possibility that the use of the shadow allows deeper communication between the audience and the image by accessing the collective unconscious. I also examine the shadow as a metaphor for the socio-political oppression of African Americans rampant in the period between the wars. / Committee in Charge: Dr. W. Sherwin Simmons, Chair; Dr. Kate Mondloch; Dr. Karen Ford

Na psicologia analítica o desenvolvimento da discussão sobre a natureza da imagem, suas manifestações e aplicações clínicas manifesta-se, primeiramente, na reflexão teórica e, posteriormente, na identificação de práticas clínicas que refletem a operacionalização e a constante atualização desses postulados. Esse estudo busca identificar no exercício da psicoterapia de que modo diferentes profissionais dialogam com as questões teóricas e as transformam em práticas clínicas efetivas, validando, operacionalizando e enriquecendo as mesmas. Investigou-se a evolução da questão da imagem na psicologia analítica sob quatro aspectos: o desenvolvimento do conceito de imagem nas três principais vertentes da psicologia analítica - clássica, desenvolvimentista e arquetípica -; a operacionalização e a atualização dessa discussão na prática clínica de terapeutas junguianos; a formação do psicoterapeuta e a capacitação para o trabalho clínico com imagens; e a viabilidade de uma psicologia pautada por imagens. Mediante a discussão teórica identificou-se questões que, agrupadas em seis eixos temáticos, serviram como base para a interlocução com psicoterapeutas de orientação junguiana. Realizaram-se seis entrevistas que foram analisadas qualitativamente. Os resultados indicam que a questão da imagem vem sendo atualizada e ampliada. Destacaram-se, entre outros, os aspectos funcionais da imagem e seu potencial clínico, a tendência da abordagem imagética não interpretativa da imagem, as peculiaridades e dificuldades do processo de formação do psicoterapeuta e a possibilidade de metaforização da reflexão em psicologia. / The development of the discussion about the nature of image in Analytical Psychology, its manifestations and its clinical applications manifest firstly in theoretical reflection and subsequently in the identification of clinical practices that reflect the execution and the constant updating of three principles. This present study aims to identify in psychotherapy how different professionals interchange ideas with theoretical issues and transform them into effective clinical practices, validating, executing and enriching them. The evolution of image in Analytical Psychology has been categorized under four aspects: the development of the concept of image in the three main schools of Analytical Psychology - Classical, Developmental and Archetypal, the execution and the updating of this discussion obtained at clinical practices of Jungian therapists, the professional development of psychotherapists and their training for clinical work using images and the viability of a psychology based on images. Through theoretical discussion, some issues have been identified and grouped into six thematic axis which have served as basis for the interlocution with Jungian psychotherapists. Six interviews have been conducted and analyzed qualitatively. The results show that the image issue has been updated and amplified. Functional aspects of image and its clinical potential, the tendency of a non-interpretative imagetic approach, the peculiarities and difficulties found in the psychotherapists' development process and the possibility of building metaphors for reflection in psychology among others have been highlighted in this study.

O reassentamento involuntário é uma forma de intervenção que promove a remoção forçada de uma população de suas casas para uma nova casa em outra localidade, visando à implementação de um projeto de habitação. Sendo um processo que envolve mudanças de casa, espaço e comunidade, o presente trabalho busca uma maior compreensão sobre a dimensão psicológica do reassentamento involuntário a partir da perspectiva de famílias reassentadas sobre a sua experiência e os sentidos atribuídos ao processo. Assim, foram entrevistados quatro reassentados do Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento/Projetos Prioritários de Investimento, do município de Pinhais do estado do Paraná, em diferentes estágios do reassentamento. Considerando o espaço como simbólico e a casa como referência do indivíduo no mundo, verificou-se a grande mobilização de conteúdos emocionais a partir da experiência do reassentamento para estes sujeitos. A ausência de participação na execução do programa e as perdas inerentes às mudanças exigidas, em especial da casa, mobilizaram imagens de sofrimento e morte por parte dos reassentados-independente de uma concordância anterior dos entrevistados pelo reassentamento. Assim, antes que possam se ver como beneficiários de uma casa nova, os reassentados enfrentam perdas profundas e uma morte simbólica, necessitando de uma elaboração da experiência para conseguir reconstruir a sua vida, seu lar e, por fim, renascer / Involuntary resettlement is a form of intervention that promotes the forced removal of a population from their homes to a new home in another location in order to implement a housing project. Being a process that involves home changes, and community space, this paper seeks a greater understanding of the psychological dimension of the involuntary resettlement from the perspective of resettled families about their experience and the meanings attributed to the process. Consequently, we interviewed four resettled PAC program / PPI in the city of Pinhais / Paraná, at different stages of resettlement. Considering the space as a symbol and the house as the individual reference in the world, there was a great mobilization of emotional content from the resettlement experience for these persons. The lack of participation in the program implementation and losses of the inescapable changes, especially the house, mobilized suffering and death images by the resettled - regardless of a previous agreement of the interviewed about the resettlement. So, before they can see themselves beneficiaries of a new home, the resettled must deal with deep losses and a symbolic death, requiring an elaboration of experience to be able to reconstruct their life, their home and finally reborn

O presente trabalho teve como objetivo a compreensão da separação amorosa vivenciada pela mulher de meia idade relacionada ao processo de individuação através de um trabalho realizado em grupo vivencial sob o enfoque da Psicologia Analítica. O método utilizado na pesquisa foi qualitativo sob a perspectiva simbólico arquetípica. Foram realizados oito encontros de grupo com sete participantes na faixa etária de quarenta a cinqüenta e cinco anos que estavam vivenciando uma separação amorosa. No grupo foram utilizados recursos expressivos, contos e mitos para favorecer a elaboração simbólica. A partir do material coletado observou-se uma grande diversidade de experiências em relação à perda como sentimentos de tristeza, solidão, desamparo, raiva, desejos de vingança, sensação de vazio e desorganização. Um tema comum manifestado pelas participantes foi a sensação de perda de identidade no relacionamento anterior ou em decorrência da separação. Identificou-se que esta perda estava associada a conteúdos inconscientes projetados no parceiro e na conjugalidade que ainda não haviam sido reintegrados à consciência. Verificou-se que em alguns casos a identidade estava alicerçada no vínculo simbiótico mantido com o parceiro. Reconhecer a raiva que estava na sombra do relacionamento, recolher as projeções depositadas no parceiro e ter que enfrentar a solidão se revelaram como oportunidades de diferenciação necessárias ao processo de individuação. Na compreensão dos dados, foi utilizado o referencial de mitos e contos para estabelecer algumas amplificações e analogias. Alguns padrões arquetípicos femininos mostraram estar ativados ou negligenciados na psique das participantes: a traição acionou uma Hera raivosa e vingativa em algumas mulheres, enquanto Afrodite parecia abandonada pelo desinteresse manifestado por algumas participantes para novos relacionamentos. Por outro lado a separação constelou arquétipos de deusas mais independentes em algumas mulheres que investem em trabalho e estudos. Observou-se que a temática da descida ao mundo inferior expressa nos mitos de Inana e de Core-Perséfone era constelada na vivência depressiva de algumas participantes, uma experiência necessária à elaboração do luto e ao enraizamento no Self feminino simbolizado pelo encontro com a deusa escura reprimida na cultura patriarcal. O grupo vivencial se mostrou eficaz para favorecer a elaboração do luto pela perda amorosa através da criação de um espaço ritual, permitindo a constelação de uma nova coniunctio. Os recursos expressivos e os contos e mitos utilizados facilitaram a expressão simbólica das participantes e mobilizaram as forças curativas da psique para iniciar a cicatrização das feridas ocasionadas pela perda. Constatou-se no grupo uma apropriação da própria trajetória de vida possibilitando assumir a responsabilidade pelo processo de individuação. São sugeridos novos estudos e o desenvolvimento de trabalhos em grupos vivenciais de mulheres e também de homens para lidar com a separação amorosa em consultórios e instituições de saúde, visando contribuir para a área de relações de gênero. / This thesis sought to understand the separation from a love relationship as experienced by middle-aged women related to the individuation process through experiential group work in the focus of Analytical Psychology. The method used in the research was qualitative, under a symbolic archetypal perspective. Eight group meetings were held with seven participants aged from forty to fifty-five who were undergoing separation from love relationships. Expressive resources, tales and myths were used in the group in order to favor the symbolic development. The material gathered showed a large diversity of experiences in relation to the loss, such as feelings of sadness, solitude, distress, anger, wishes of revenge, a feeling of emptiness and derangement. A common matter expressed by the participants was the feeling of loss of identity in the past relationship or as a result of the separation. It was identified that this loss was associated to unconscious contents projected in the partner and in the conjugality that had not yet rejoined their consciousness. It was verified that, in some cases, the identity was grounded on the symbiotic relationship had with the partner. To recognize the anger that was in the shadows of the relationship, to bring in the projections deposited in the partner and have to face solitude revealed to be opportunities of differentiation that are necessary for the individuation process. The referential of myths and tales was used in the understanding of the data, in order to establish some expansions and analogies. Some feminine archetypal standards were shown to be activated or neglected in the psyche of the participants: betrayal turned some women into an angry and vengeful Hera, while Aphrodite looked abandoned by the lack of interest for new relationships expressed by some participants. On the other hand, the separation constellated archetypes of more independent goddesses in some women who invest on their career and education. It was noted that the thematic of the descent to the underworld expressed in the myths of Inanna and Core-Persephone was constellated on the depressive life experience of some participants, a necessary experience for the elaboration of mourning and rooting into their feminine Self, symbolized by the meeting with the dark goddess repressed in the patriarchal culture. The experiential group was shown to be efficient to favor the elaboration of mourning for the loss of their love mate through the creation of a ritual space, allowing the constellation of a new coniunctio. The expressive resources and tales and myths used facilitated the symbolic expression and mobilized the healing forces of the psyche to start the healing of the wounds caused by the loss. The group demonstrated an appropriation of their own trajectories of life, allowing them to take responsibility for the individuation process. New studies are suggested, as well as the development of experiential group work with women and man to handle the separation from love relationships in clinical settings and health institutions, seeking to contribute to the gender relationship area.

Esta dissertação estuda, a partir do referencial da psicologia analítica de Jung, um grupo vivencial que utiliza a dramatização espontânea como recurso expressivo. Procura investigar se este instrumento é um facilitador para a exploração da sombra em grupos. Parte da hipótese que, ao dramatizarmos espontaneamente, a sombra tem a possibilidade de adquirir expressão, aproximarse e ser reconhecida pela consciência. Este diálogo entre a esfera consciente e inconsciente estimulado pelo drama improvisado e compartilhado pelo grupo pode permitir a emergência, o desenvolvimento e a estruturação de uma consciência que funcione em alteridade, pois há uma abertura para o reconhecimento daquilo que é diverso em si e no outro, com uma atitude de inclusão deste aspecto. Como método de investigação, há a pesquisa de um ato psicosociodramático no Centro Cultural São Paulo que utiliza a ação dramática espontânea para o desenvolvimento de grupos. É feito o relato de uma vivência e entrevistas com quatro participantes e a diretora dessa atividade procurando identificar, na vivência e nas respostas dos entrevistados, os momentos nos quais a sombra se expressou e quais foram as atitudes então tomadas pela consciência diante desta situação. A fundamentação se dá principalmente através dos conceitos de sombra, persona, complexo, self (grupal) e abordagem simbólica. Apoiada neles os atos de psico-sociodrama são apresentados como rituais criativos importantes para o desenvolvimento da personalidade, ao possibilitarem uma abertura da existência para a realização do self e permitirem que diferentes singularidades coexistam e não se excluam mutuamente, o que faz com que se tornem caminhos possíveis para a estruturação e exploração de uma consciência de alteridade. / This dissertation studies, from the reference of the Analytical Psychology of Jung, an experiential group that uses spontaneous dramatization as an expressive resource. It tries to investigate if this instrument is a facilitator for the exploration of the shadow in groups. It is based on the hypothesis that when we dramatize spontaneously the shadow has the possibility to acquire expression, come closer and be recognized by the consciousness. This dialogue between the consciousness and unconscious sphere, stimulated by the improvised drama and shared by the group, could allow the emergence, development and structuring of a consciousness that works in alterity, because there is an availability to acknowledge what is different in oneself and in the other, with an attitude of inclusion. As a method of investigation, there is the research of a psycho-sociodramatic act at Centro Cultural São Paulo that uses the spontaneous dramatic action for the development of groups. There is the report of an experience and interviews with four participants and the director of this activity, trying to identify in the experience and in the respondents answers, the moments in which the shadow is expressed and what were the attitudes adopted by the consciousness during this situation. The theoretic basis is mainly upon the concepts of shadow, persona, complex, (group) self and symbolic approach. Supported by these concepts, the acts of psycho-sociodrama are presented as creative rituals important for the development of personality, because they make possible an availability of the existence for the realization of the self and they allow that different singularities coexist and are not mutually excluded, which means that they become alternative ways to structure and explore an alterity consciousness.