Jung and Star Wars : A Contemporary Mythology (Hardcover)

Introduction? 1. A Synoptic Star Wars: Disney’s Best-Laid Plans to Canonize a Living Mythology? 2. The Force, Jedi, and Sith in Jungian Terms? 3. Yoda: From Green-Man Senex to Divine Child? 4. Palpatine: Dark-Side Senex of Absolute Evil? 5. Possession by Affect in Anakin Skywalker’s Quest for Control? 6. “One Destroyed Being”: The Splinter Psyche and Redemption of Darth Vader? 7. The Transcendent Function and Luke Skywalker’s New Ethic of Balance? 8. Leia: Archetypal Antiprincess, Huttslayer, Mother? 9. The Falconer Can Hear the Wildman: Han Solo’s Individuation? 10. Reylo: Coniunctio of a Dyad in the Force? Epilogue