Fanny Brewster
Biographic Data
| ID | 4501880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fanny Brewster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fanny |
| FAMILY NAME | Brewster |
| SIGNATURE | BREWSTER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pacifica Graduate Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2829-5843 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Race and the Unconscious: An Africanist Depth Psychology Perspective on Dreaming
Race and the Unconscious engages the archetypal African consciousness that enriches our knowledge regarding the foundational mythopoetic of Africanist dreaming. Featuring crucial historical context, Jungian and post-Jungian theory, clinical case studies, and dream series interpretations, the book offers readers a rich framework for exploring and understanding the language, images, and symbols of African and African American dreamlife. It expands …
Courage and Fear: Weathering the Collective Racial Storm
During the past 2 years our American collective has seen a return to political demonstrations and increased activities towards a deepening consciousness related to raciality. This article asks that we look at racism within the contexts of our collective American psychology and our personhood. This perspective considers Jungian psychology and its influences on the development of this form of psychoanalysis in America. Is this the work of psycholog…
Is this a good time? Political activism and other in the temenos
This paper discusses raciality and Africanist culture as elements of the analytical clinical experience. The history of American Jungian psychology, and its relationship with the African diaspora, is reviewed with a perspective that seeks to deepen understanding of racism as an aspect of psychoanalytical institutional life. An attempt to separate political activism from the clinical setting is explored with consideration of the necessary intertwi…
Katrina: Water and Sacred Rites
“Katrina: Water and Sacred Rites” explores the historical, environmental, and African American cultural trauma of the Katrina disaster of 2005. This is presented in the foreground of the current coronavirus pandemic that has physically, psychologically, and financially affected millions of individuals in the United States. The amplification of Langston Hughes’s poetry and the author’s narrative addresses the racialization of the Katrina disaster …
The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race
In The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race, Fanny Brewster revisits and examines Jung’s classical writing on the theory of complexes, relating it directly to race in modern society. In this groundbreaking exploration, Brewster deepens Jung’s minimalist writing regarding the cultural complexes of American blacks and whites by identifying and re-defining a psychological complex related to ethnicity. Original and insightful, th…
Binding legacies: Ancestor, archetype and Other
This article discusses the multicultural interconnection between Jungian analysts' training and Africanist training candidates. The importance of ancestral lineage and archetypal influences in the clinical setting are explored for better understanding of issues related to the transference and therapeutic interventions. A discussion of racial relations and racism is addressed as a frequently missing element in the psychoanalytical training of futu…
Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss
Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss is a powerful exploration of the intergenerational psychological effects of child loss as experienced by women held in slavery in the Americas and of its ongoing effects in contemporary society. It presents the concept of archetypal grief in African American women: cultural trauma so deeply wounding that it spans generations. Calling on Jungian psychology as well as neuroscience a…
Archetypal Grief: Slavery's Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss
Archetypes of the collective unconscious
Archetypal Grief
Wheel of Fire: The African American Dreamer and Cultural Consciousness
The early days of American psychoanalysis form the background of this discussion, which reviews Jung's 1912 visit to America. The article focuses on Jung's contact with fifteen African American patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington D.C., and it considers Jung's archetypal interpretation of one patient's dream. Jung's opinions regarding African Americans are contrasted with the development of the concept of a positive cultural conscio…
Binding legacies: Ancestor, archetype and Other
This article discusses the multicultural interconnection between Jungian analysts' training and Africanist training candidates. The importance of ancestral lineage and archetypal influences in the clinical setting are explored for better understanding of issues related to the transference and therapeutic interventions. A discussion of racial relations and racism is addressed as a frequently missing element in the psychoanalytical training of futu…
Wheel of Fire: The African American Dreamer and Cultural Consciousness
The early days of American psychoanalysis form the background of this discussion, which reviews Jung's 1912 visit to America. The article focuses on Jung's contact with fifteen African American patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington D.C., and it considers Jung's archetypal interpretation of one patient's dream. Jung's opinions regarding African Americans are contrasted with the development of the concept of a positive cultural conscio…
Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss
Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss is a powerful exploration of the intergenerational psychological effects of child loss as experienced by women held in slavery in the Americas and of its ongoing effects in contemporary society. It presents the concept of archetypal grief in African American women: cultural trauma so deeply wounding that it spans generations. Calling on Jungian psychology as well as neuroscience a…
Archetypal Grief: Slavery's Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss
Archetypes of the collective unconscious
Archetypal Grief
The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race
In The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race, Fanny Brewster revisits and examines Jung’s classical writing on the theory of complexes, relating it directly to race in modern society. In this groundbreaking exploration, Brewster deepens Jung’s minimalist writing regarding the cultural complexes of American blacks and whites by identifying and re-defining a psychological complex related to ethnicity. Original and insightful, th…
Binding legacies: Ancestor, archetype and Other
This article discusses the multicultural interconnection between Jungian analysts' training and Africanist training candidates. The importance of ancestral lineage and archetypal influences in the clinical setting are explored for better understanding of issues related to the transference and therapeutic interventions. A discussion of racial relations and racism is addressed as a frequently missing element in the psychoanalytical training of futu…
Katrina: Water and Sacred Rites
“Katrina: Water and Sacred Rites” explores the historical, environmental, and African American cultural trauma of the Katrina disaster of 2005. This is presented in the foreground of the current coronavirus pandemic that has physically, psychologically, and financially affected millions of individuals in the United States. The amplification of Langston Hughes’s poetry and the author’s narrative addresses the racialization of the Katrina disaster …
Is this a good time? Political activism and other in the temenos
This paper discusses raciality and Africanist culture as elements of the analytical clinical experience. The history of American Jungian psychology, and its relationship with the African diaspora, is reviewed with a perspective that seeks to deepen understanding of racism as an aspect of psychoanalytical institutional life. An attempt to separate political activism from the clinical setting is explored with consideration of the necessary intertwi…
Courage and Fear: Weathering the Collective Racial Storm
During the past 2 years our American collective has seen a return to political demonstrations and increased activities towards a deepening consciousness related to raciality. This article asks that we look at racism within the contexts of our collective American psychology and our personhood. This perspective considers Jungian psychology and its influences on the development of this form of psychoanalysis in America. Is this the work of psycholog…
Race and the Unconscious: An Africanist Depth Psychology Perspective on Dreaming
Race and the Unconscious engages the archetypal African consciousness that enriches our knowledge regarding the foundational mythopoetic of Africanist dreaming. Featuring crucial historical context, Jungian and post-Jungian theory, clinical case studies, and dream series interpretations, the book offers readers a rich framework for exploring and understanding the language, images, and symbols of African and African American dreamlife. It expands …
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Jungian Psychology (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Psychologie analytique (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)