Andy McCormack - ‘History, Tragedy, Comedy, Futurity: Drama and Jungian Theories of Childhood, Contemporary Fiction’

details below.Andy McCormack is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. He has published in "Analytical PsychologyOpus Magnum" 2022, and in book chapters; ", "

‘’History, Tragedy, Comedy, Futurity: The Dramatisation of Jungian Theories of Childhood in Contemporary Fiction

In response to the innovative work of Jungian literary critics Terence Dawson and Susan Rowland, McCormack builds upon their new ways of ‘doing’ Jungian literary criticism by exploring how Jungian concepts have become embedded in contemporary fiction. Moving away from an analysis of the monomyth or hero’s journey template most readily associated with traditional Jungian literary criticism, this talk focusses on Jungian concepts and their - at times neglected - aspects pertaining specifically to childhood and children’s culture. Through texts drawn from four genres (history, tragedy, comedy and futurity), Andy will explore how Jung’s concepts of the inherited complex, the shadow, the inner or eternal child and the collective unconscious…