Terror, Violence and the Impulse to Destroy

These papers address the process of terror as it confronts us in international situations and in outbreaks of violence in homes and schools. The thirteen contributors, seasoned Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, have often faced the reality of undermining destructiveness in their work with clients. Here they offer their theoretical and therapeutic insights, drawing from their experience of the psyche's healing resources to identify the consciousness we need if we are to survive and reverse the contagion of hostility. This book provides an opportunity to learn what can inform the human spirit to prevail over the forces that threaten its integrity and compassion. Clarissa Pinkola Estés -- Explaining Evil; Jacqueline Gerson -- Kidnapping: Latin America's Terror; Judith Hecker -- A View from the Islamic Side: Terror, Violence, and Transformation in the Life of an Eleventh Century Muslim; John Dourley -- Archetypal Hatred as Social Bond: Strategies for its Dissolution; Beverley Zabriskie -- Response to John Dourley; Mary Dougherty Escape/No Escape: The Persistence of Terror in the Lives of Two Women; Thomas Singer -- Cultural Complexes and Archetypal Defenses of the Group Spirit; Samuel L. Kimbles -- Cultural Complexes and Collective Shadow Processes; Sherry Salman -- Blood Payments; Arthur D. Colman -- Music and the Psychology of Pacifism: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem; Arlene TePaske Landau -- The Impulse to Destroy in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure; Naomi Ruth Lowinsky -- Wrestling with God: From the Book of Job to the Poets of the Shoah; Brian Skea -- Jung, Spielrein, and Nash: Three Beautiful Minds Confronting the Impulse to Love or to Destroy in the Creative Process