William Meredith-Owen
13 Papers
34 Citations
William Meredith-Owen is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Shadow (psychology) & Unconscious mind. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 13 publications.
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Are waves of relational assumptions eroding traditional analysis
TL;DR: The author designates as 'traditional' those elements of psychoanalytic presumption and practice that have, in the wake of Fordham's legacy, helped to inform analytical psychology and expand the authors' capacity to integrate the shadow.
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Winnicott on Jung: destruction, creativity and the unrepressed unconscious
TL;DR: It is argued that although Winnicott's diagnosis illuminates Jung's shadow, particularly his constraints vis-à-vis the repressed Freudian unconscious, it fails to appreciate the efficacy of the compensatory containment Jung found in the collective unconscious.
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Jung's shadow:negation and narcissism of the Self
TL;DR: It is argued that the psychoanalytic mainstream has undervalued the subtlety and creativity of Jung's own intuitive response to his shadow and that a sympathetic appreciation of this can still valuably inform the authors' contemporary approaches to narcissistic disorders, especially dissociation.
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The hero, the anima and the claustrum: anality and idealization.
TL;DR: It is argued that over-investment in hero and anima archetypal configurations may represent an attempt to replace the resource of the internal parental couple that, at the level of unconscious phantasy, has been destroyed by the aggrieved child's attack on the primal scene.
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'Go! Sterilise the fertile with thy rage' envy as embittered desire.
TL;DR: It is argued that such fundamentally negative transferences derive from envious retaliatory impulses originating in experiences--whether phantasied or factual--of exclusion from the anticipated 'good'.
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