Table Of ContentIndividuation and Liberty
in a Globalized World
What is the best way to understand the narratives of self-identity at the beginning
of the 21st century? This interdisciplinary collection brings together perspectives
from analytical psychology, sociology, psychiatry, psychosocial studies, and
psychoanalysis to consider questions about individuation and freedom in our
unhinged world.
The contributors discuss the meaning of, and need for, individuation in
individualized and liquid societies. The book begins with a comparison of three
approaches: C.G. Jung’s individuation, Ulrich Beck’s individualization, and
Zygmunt Bauman’s liquidity. This sets the tone for further consideration of
topics, including guilt, social media, global nomads, and surveillance. Theoretical
reflections are enhanced by clinical material, and the book emphasizes the
connections between sociology and psychoanalysis, offering significant insights
into the importance of psychosocial approaches.
This timely work will be of great interest to academics and scholars of
psychosocial studies, Jungian studies, sociology, and politics.
Stefano Carpani, M.A., M.Phil. is an Italian sociologist (post-graduate of the
University of Cambridge) and psychoanalyst who trained at the C.G. Jung Institute,
Zürich, accredited analyst CGJI-Z/IAAP, and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department
of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytical Studies at University of Essex. He works
in private practice in Berlin in English, Italian, and Spanish. He is the initiator of
the YouTube interview series Breakfast at Küsnacht, which aims to capture the
voices of senior Jungians. Since 2017, he has collected more than 70 interviews.
He is among the initiators of Psychosocial Wednesdays, a digital salon modeled on
Freud’s Wednesday meetings in Vienna and Jung’s meetings at the Psychological
Club, which features speakers from various psychoanalytic traditions, schools,
and associated fields. He is the author of numerous papers and edited volumes,
including Breakfast at Küsnacht: Conversations on C. G. Jung and Beyond (Chiron,
2020—IAJS book award finalist, for “Best edited Book”); The Plural Turn in
Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies: The Work of Andrew Samuels (Routledge,
2021); Anthology of Contemporary Classics in Analytical psychology: The New
Ancestors (Routledge, 2022); Lockdown Therapy: Jungian Perspectives on how
the Pandemic Changed Psychoanalysis (Routledge, in print, July 2022).
Individuation and Liberty
in a Globalized World
Psychosocial Perspectives on Freedom
after Freedom
Edited by Stefano Carpani
Preface by Andrew Samuels
Cover image: Courtesy of Bianca Carpani Ruano
First published 2022
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Names: Carpani, Stefano, editor.
Title: Individuation and liberty in a globalized world : psychosocial
perspectives on freedom after freedom / edited by Stefano
Carpani ; preface by Andrew Samuels.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021059342 (print) | LCCN 2021059343
(ebook) | ISBN 9780367768966 (hardback) | ISBN
9780367768959 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003168829 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Identity (Psychology) | Self. | Individuation
(Philosophy) | Liberty. | Globalization—Psychological aspects.
Classification: LCC BF697 .I537 2022 (print) | LCC BF697 (ebook) |
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003168829
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To István Kupper-Meynen,
friend, double, opposite, enemy,
this book is dedicated.
The time is out of joint; O cursed spite!
That ever I was born to set it right!
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
It is not possible to solve a complex. It is only possible to solve
a conflict.
Günter Langwieler
Contents
List of Contributors ix
Preface xv
ANDREW SAMUELS
Introduction: Absolute Freedom is ‘Freedom After Freedom’ 1
STEFANO CARPANI
1 Dreaming Your Future. Dreaming Your Freedom 15
GALIT ATLAS
2 In Defense of the Freedoms of the Self 30
JOHN BEEBE
3 The Paradox of Metaphor 40
STEFANO CANDELLIERI AND DAVIDE FAVERO
4 The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Complex Theory and the
Numinous in the Development of History (a neo-Jungian
Approach) 57
STEFANO CARPANI
5 The Impossibility of Freedom: From Psychoanalytical
Conceptions to Political Objections 73
AYSE DEVRIM BASTERZI AND GAMZE ÖZÇÜRÜMEZ BILGILI
6 Individuation, Textuality, and Sexuality in Ursula
Le Guin’s Lavinia 92
ROULA-MARIA DIB
viii Contents
7 Mysterium Dissociationis: The Masculine in Crisis Towards
New Forms of Thought and Relationship 108
ROBERTO GRANDE
8 False Start: A neo-Jungian Critique of Self-Help 130
NICCOLÒ FIORENTINO POLIPO
9 Natality, Individuation and Generative Social Action: From
Amor Mundi to Social Generativity 151
CHIARA GIACCARDI AND MAURO MAGATTI
10 ‘Roots in a Pot’: The Identity Conundrum in Global Nomads 165
ELIAS WINTERTON
11 The Necessity of Guilt: A Freeing Movement of the Soul
Towards Individuation 183
ELIZABETH LEUENBERGER-KAJS
12 Floating and Taking Root: Individuation in Contemporary
Traumatic Conditions 195
MONICA LUCI
13 Paranoia, Politics and the Tyranny of the Identical: Is there
Civilization in the Transitions we are Crossing? 215
MARCUS QUINTAES
14 The Applicability of Analytical Psychology in China: How a
Western Psychological Lens Might be Adapted in the East 222
HUAN WANG
Index 241
Contributors
Dr. Galit Atlas is on the faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psycho-
therapy and Psychoanalysis and faculty at the Four Year Adult and National
Training Programs at NIP. She is the author of The Enigma of Desire: Sex,
Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2015), Dramatic Dia-
logue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (co-authored with Lewis Aron, Rout-
ledge, 2017), and Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and the
Legacy of Trauma (Little Brown, 2022). She is the editor and a contributor
to When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron (Routledge, 2020). Atlas serves
on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Perspectives and is the author of arti-
cles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. Her New
York Times article “A Tale of Two Twins” was the winner of a 2016 Gradiva
award. Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in
New York City.
Assoc. Prof. Ayse Devrim Basterzi, M.D., is a Turkish psychiatrist and psycho-
therapist. She is co-editor of several books, including Women’s Life and Wom-
en’s Mental Health (2012), Book of Peace: The Mood of War from Individual to
Society and Peace (2015), and Prevention, Intervention and Treatment Guide-
line for Mental Disorders in Mass Trauma and Disasters (2021), all of which
are published by PAT Publications. She was a past executive board member
of Psychiatric Association of Turkey (PAT) for two terms (2009–2014), past
member of the Board of PAT (2009–2016), and past president of the Curric-
ulum and Program Development Section of the Board for two terms. Ayse
Devrim Basterzi and her colleagues received an Association for Women in
Psychology Distinguished Publication Award in 2019 with their article “Geno-
cidal Sexual Assault on Women and the Role of Culture in the Rehabilitation
Process: Experiences from Working with Yazidi Women in Turkey” (published
in Torture 28(3), 124–132). She was removed and banned from public service
with the Turkish Decree Law No. 689 on April 29, 2017, and dismissed from
her academic post because she signed a petition called The Peace Petition. She
works in private practice in Istanbul.
