Burnett Leon(Editor) - Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious

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Leon Burnett, Sanja Bahun and Roderick Main

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Leon Burnett

Steven F. Walker

Jason Whittaker

Saugata Bhaduri

Paul Cantz

Angie Voela

Robert A. Segal

Eric Rhode

Roderick Main

Janet A. Walker

Leon Burnett

Paul Bishop

Lyndon Davies

Sanja Bahun, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex. She has authored Modernism and Melancholia: Writing as Countermourning (2013) and edited Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate (2008), From Word to Canvas: Appropriations of Myth in Womens Aesthetic Production (2009), Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras (2011), and Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions (2012).

Saugata Bhaduri, PhD, is Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His diverse areas of research interest include contemporary literary and cultural theory, Indian and Western philosophy, folklore and popular culture studies, and translation and comparative literature studies. Some of his recent books are Literary Theory: An Introductory Reader (2010), Perspectives on Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization (2010), Translating Power (2008), Negotiating Glocalization (2008), and Les Yogasutras de Patanjali (2008).

Paul Bishop, PhD, is Professor of German at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of various works on German and European literature and thought, including The Dionysian Self (1995), Synchronicity and Intellectual Intuition (2000), and Analytical Psychology & German Classical Aesthetics (20072008), and editor of Jung in Contexts (1999) and The Archaic (2012).

Leon Burnett, PhD, is Reader in Literature and Director of the Centre for Myth Studies at the University of Essex. He has edited F. M. Dostoevsky (18211881): A Centenary Collection (1981), Word in Time: Poetry, Narrative, Translation (1997), and The Art of Accommodation: Literary Translation in Russia (2013). From 1992 to 2000 he edited New Comparison: A Journal of Comparative and General Literary Studies.

Paul Cantz, PsyD, ABPP, is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine and Associate Director of Training/Assistant Professor at the Adler School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL. His most recent publications include Cross cultural reflections on the feminine Other: Hebraism and Hellenism redux in: Pastoral Psychology (2013) and A psychodynamic inquiry into the spiritually-evocative potential of music in: International Forum of Psychoanalysis (2013).

Lyndon Davies is a poet, reviewer and essayist living in Powys, UK. He has published two collections of poetry, Hyphasis (2006) and Shield (2010). He co-runs the Glasfryn Seminars, a series of literary discussion groups, and a yearly festival of innovative poetry, The Hay Poetry Jamboree.

Roderick Main, PhD, is Professor in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is the author of The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jungs Critique of Modern Western Culture (2004) and Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience (2007) and the editor of Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal (1997).

Eric Rhode is a child psychotherapist, independent scholar, and former broadcaster on film and the arts. He is the author of Tower of Babel (1967), A History of the Cinema from Its Origins to 1970 (1976), On Birth & Madness (1987), The Generations of Adam (1990), Psychotic Metaphysics (1994), On Hallucination, Intuition, and the Becoming of O (1998), Platos Silence (2003), Notes on the Aniconic (2003), and Axis Mundi (2008).

Robert Segal, PhD, is Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of The Poimandres as Myth: Scholarly Theory and Gnostic Meaning (1986), Joseph Campbell: An Introduction (1987, 1990, 1997), Religion and the Social Sciences: Essays on the Confrontation (1989), Explaining and Interpreting Religion: Essays on the Issue (1992), Theorizing about Myth (1999), and Myth: A Very Short Introduction (2004), and the editor of The Gnostic Jung (1992), Jung on Mythology (1998), The Myth and Ritual Theory (1998), Hero Myths (2000), The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion (2006), Myth: Critical Concepts (2007), and The Heros Quest (co-edited, 2013).

Angie Voela, PhD, is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Psychosocial Studies in the School of Law and Social Sciences, University of East London. Her recent publications include In the Name of the Father-or not: individual and society in popular culture, Deleuzian theory, and Lacanian psychoanalysis in: Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society (2011) and Heterotopia revisited: Foucault and Lacan on feminine subjectiv-ity in: Subjectivity (2010).

Janet A. Walker, PhD, is Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, US. She is the author of The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism (1979). Her recent publications include Van Gogh, collector of Japan in: The Comparatist (2008) and Reading the postcolonial diasporic novel as picaresque: Bharati Mukherjees Jasmine and Radhika Jhas Smell in: Home and the World: South Asia in Transition (2006).

Steven F. Walker, PhD, is Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, US. He is the author of Jung and the Jungians on Myth