Article ; Online: Intersections of personal vs. collective trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic: the hijacking of the human imagination.
The Journal of analytical psychology
2021 Volume 66, Issue 3, Page(s) 443–462
Abstract: ... a collective trauma that frequently opens up or 'triggers' un-remembered personal trauma, and it provides ... clinical examples of these intersections. The paper further explores how the human imagination ... This paper explores how the deadly shadow of COVID-19 passing over the Earth constitutes ...
| Abstract | This paper explores how the deadly shadow of COVID-19 passing over the Earth constitutes a collective trauma that frequently opens up or 'triggers' un-remembered personal trauma, and it provides clinical examples of these intersections. The paper further explores how the human imagination, which we normally utilize to make meaning out of traumatic experience, can be hijacked by fear - leading to avoidance of suffering and to illusory formulations and alternative realities such as conspiracy theories. Alternatively, the imagination can be employed in more realistic and creative ways - leading through conscious suffering to healing and wholeness. Which path the imagination takes is shown to depend on the capacity of individuals to feel the full reality of the human condition in general and the exquisite vulnerability of our existence as fragile human beings at this moment in history. Ernest Becker's analysis of our 'denial of death' and his urgency to embrace our common human vulnerability is explored in relation to Jung's early tendency to deny the body. The author proposes that the more creative uses of the imagination, connected to a more humble and realistic apprehension of our common destiny, may be seen in the 'Black Lives Matter' movement that swept the world in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Adult ; COVID-19 ; Fear/psychology ; Humans ; Imagination ; Political Activism ; Professional-Patient Relations ; Psychoanalytic Therapy ; Psychological Trauma/psychology ; Racism ; Telemedicine | |||||
| Language | English | |||||
| Publishing date | 2021-07-07 | |||||
| Publishing country | England | |||||
| Document type | Journal Article | |||||
| ZDB-ID | 219156-8 | |||||
| ISSN | 1468-5922 ; 0021-8774 | |||||
| ISSN (online) | 1468-5922 | |||||
| ISSN | 0021-8774 | |||||
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-5922.12697 | |||||
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