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The Deep Psychology of BDSM and Kink

Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on the Soul’s Transgressive Necessities

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The Deep Psychology of BDSM and Kink

By: Douglas Thomas
Narrated by: E.M. Burton, Bianca Drew
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This fascinating volume investigates how the concept of soul is connected to BDSM and kink, exploring the world of alternative sexualities through the psychology of C. G. Jung and James Hillman as listeners are guided on a provocative, lively journey through darker aspects of the sexual imagination.

This book unveils surprising points of correspondence between the tortured fantasy-images of Jung's The Red Book and the modern world of BDSM and describes from Hillman's psychology a soul-centered perspective that affirms the psychological value of fantasy-images animating our human lives. The book considers the collective archetypal sources of historical trauma which have provided inspiration to some of the more disquieting aspects of BDSM and details how the deep psychology of BDSM creates a space to engage these practices. Kinksters and BDSM practitioners will discover a psychological language that clarifies and affirms why these activities and relationships can be so intimate, pleasurable, and transformative.

Psychotherapists and enthusiasts of Jungian and archetypal psychology will find fresh insights that support the practice of BDSM as a form of individuation.

Contains mature themes.

©2024 Douglas Thomas (P)2024 Tantor Human Sexuality Mental Health Psychology Psychology & Mental Health BDSM
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A complete waste of my time and subscription. Don't bother unless you are an undergraduate who wants historical references

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I was so excited to finally get the chance to listen to this book. However, I feel as though the author might be a sadist who is really getting off on the torturous effects of his book. I recommend reading this before bed, I couldn't keep my eyes open.

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This book felt like an act of academic self pleasuring. I’d hoped to learn about psychology and the way the brain and mind responds to kink. Instead we get long passages cherrypicking from a wide range of psychological, philosophical and mythical writings all aimed at making BDSM sound academically interesting. As someone completely new to Jung, there were multiple instances of concepts taken as axiomatic that were deeply problematic or not explained.
The main narrator feels like she’s reading a phone book and can’t get through fast enough. And while the second narrator has been chosen for a very obvious reason, it feels performative. And she was better than the main so could we not just have had her!?

Heavy without reason

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