Loving's the Strange Thing

This ground-breaking volume argues that Carmen Martín Gaite and Carl Jung form an ideal combination. All the features of the Jungian individuation process are present in the Spanish writer's fairy tales: dreams, shadow figures, wise men and women, the Self, anima and animus.

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Anne-Marie Storrs holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh on the twentieth-century Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite. Her main research interests lie in the work of Martín Gaite explored from the perspective of Jungian psychology, with a particular focus on the individuation process, dreams and the symbolic life.

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CONTENTS: A Natural Process: Individuation and the Impulse to Wholeness and Community - 'Los informes vienen de todos lados': Dreams in El castillo de las tres murallas - Cómo crecer? The Process of Individuation in El pastel del diablo - El quehacer más importante: Listening as Eros in Caperucita en Manhattan - 'A lo más oscuro amanece Dios': The Dawning of the Self in La reina de las nieves - Concluding Thoughts