Redemption Through the Borderland
Review of: Jerome S. Bernstein, Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma . New York: Routledge, 2005
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8117350 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Rowland (0000-0002-7052-3451, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-80 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jung Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1934-2039 • E-ISSN: 1934-2047 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/jung.2009.3.1.78 |
| OpenAlex | W2321796600 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Analyst Jerome Bernstein has fashioned a work of cultural analysis and healing prophecy out of his Jungian clinical practice and long experience with Navajo Native Americans. He identifies “borderlanders” as people who experience a new connection with nature through the unconscious psyche. By acknowledging the reality of this borderland between human consciousness and nature, these people come to represent a new evolution for the Western ego, which has become dangerously fragile. Bernstein explores this borderland using Navajo epistemology, making this book a powerful work of postcolonial restitution. Moreover, he explores the possible significance of Environmental Illness Complex and trauma in constructing the narratives that reframe and reposition our interdependence with nature
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive reframing · Consciousness · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Literature · Narrative · Navajo · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Self · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Psychology · Philosophy · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2019 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |