Articles, Interviews, and Reviews

In addition to his four books, Michael Vannoy Adams has published numerous articles, interviews, and reviews.

Articles

• "Interpretation and Creativity, Individuation and Destiny: Spielrein and Jung on the Real and the Symbolic," Quadrant, 46,1 (2016): 11-22.
• "Golden Calf Psychology: James Hillman Alone in Pursuit of the Imagination," Quadrant 42,2 (2012): 58-69.
• "O Baal, Hear Us: Active Imagination and the Mythological Unconscious (in Russian), Jungian Analysis, 2 (2012): 56-76.
• "The Metaphor of Metamorphosis: Change in Myth and Psyche," (in Russian), Jungian Analysis, 3 (2011): 113-29.
• "The Voluptuous Horror of the Vagina: Kembra Pfahler and the Impenetrable Unconscious," in Lia Gangitano (ed.), Dead Flowers (Philadelphia: Vox Populi and New York: Participant, Inc., 2011): 184-9, and in Kembra Pfahler, Wall of Vagina (New York: private edition, 2011).
• "The Sable Venus on the Middle Passage: Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade," in Gottfried Heuer (ed.), Sacral Revolutions: Reflecting on the Work of Andrew Samuels - Cutting Edges in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis (London and New York: Routledge, 2010): 13-21.
• "Obama and Icarus: Political Heroism, 'Newspaper Mythology,' and the Economic Crisis of 2008," Spring, 81 (2009): 291-318.
• "The Sable Venus on the Middle Passage: Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade," in Pramila Bennett (ed.), Cape Town 2007: Journeys, Encounters: Clinical, Communal, Cultural: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Congress for Analytical Psychology (Einsiedeln: Daimon Verlag, 2009): 159-64.
• "The Archetypal School," in Polly Young-Eisendrath and Terrence Dawkins (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Jung, 2nd rev. ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008): 107-24.
• "The Butterfly Woman: Being Stuck and Getting Unstuck," Quadrant, 38,1 (2008): 40-63.
• "Does Myth (Still) Have a Function in Jungian Studies: Modernity, Metaphor, and Psycho-Mythology?" in Lucy Huskinson (ed.), Dreaming the Myth Onwards: New Directions in Jungian Therapy and Thought (London and New York: Routledge, 2008): 81-90.
• "Imaginology: The Jungian Study of the Imagination," in Stanton Marlan (ed.), Archetypal Psychologies: Reflections in Honor of James Hillman (New Orleans: Spring Journal Books, 2008): 225-42.
• "If the University Won't Have Jungians, Then How Might Jungians Have the University?" in Lynn Cowan (ed.), Barcelona 2004: Edges of Experience: Memory and Emergence: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress for Analytical Psychology (Einsiedeln: Daimon Verlag, 2006): 295-302, CD.
• "The Islamic Cultural Unconscious in the Dreams of a Contemporary Muslim Man," Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, 8,1 (2006): 31-40.
• "African-American Dreaming and the Beast of Racism: The Cultural Unconscious and Jungian Analysis," Psychoanalytic Psychology, 19,1 (2002): 182-98.
• "Mythological Knowledge: Just How Important Is It in Jungian (and Freudian) Analysis?" Harvest, 48,1 (2002): 7-21.
• "Compensation in the Service of Individuation: Phenomenological Essentialism and Jungian Dream Interpretation," Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10,1 (2000): 127-42.
• "The Window Knew Best: A Response to Robert Tyminski," Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, 2 (2000): 57-9.
• "For Love of the Imagination," in Joseph Reppen (ed.), Why I Became a Psychotherapist (Northvale, NJ, and London: Jason Aronson, 1998), 1-14.
• "Noll and Void: The Jung Scholarship of Richard Noll," Round Table Review, 5,3 (1998): 11-16.
• "Race, the Unconscious, and New York City," Lapis, 6 (1998): 68-72.
• "The Archetypal School," in Polly Young-Eisendrath and Terrence Dawson (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Jung (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997): 101-18.
• "Desegregating the White Ego: Racism and the Ethic of White Civilization," Spring, 62 (1997): 87-103.
• "Jung and Racism," Self & Society, 25,1 (1997): 19-23.
• "Metaphors in Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy," Clinical Social Work Journal, 25,1 (1997): 27-39.
• "Refathering Psychoanalysis, Deliteralising Hillman: Imaginal Therapy, Individual and Cultural," in Petruska Clarkson (ed.), On the Sublime in Psychoanalysis, Archetypal Psychology, and Psychotherapy (London: Whurr, 1997): 109-22.
• "Re-imagining Ourselves: What Does It Mean To Be 'Multicultural?'" Round Table Review, 5,2 (1997): 3, 5, and 17-18.
• "Flowers and Fungi: Archetypal Semiotics and Visual Metaphor," Sprin g 59 (1996): 131-55.
• "Jungians and Deconstruction," Round Table Review, 3,1 (1995): 3 and 7.
• "Policing the Unconscious: Law and Order in the Psyche," Spring, 56 (1994): 65-77.
• "Psychoanalytic Studies in British and American Universities: The Kent and New School Programs," International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, 3,1 (1993): 20-6.
• "Deconstructive Philosophy and Imaginal Psychology: Comparative Perspectives on Jacques Derrida and James Hillman," in Richard P. Sugg (ed.), Jungian Literary Criticism (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1992): 231-48.
• "My Imaginal Hillman; or, 'James, I'll See You in My Dreams,'" A Festival of Archetypal Psychology in Honor of James Hillman: Selected Conference Audiotapes (Boulder, CO: Sounds True Recordings, 1992), audiotape.
• "Dreams as Complexes: Jung's Dream of the Brown Horse and Heavy Log," Quadrant, 24,1 (1991): 44-63.
• "My Siegfried Problem - and Ours: Jungians, Freudians, Anti-Semitism, and the Psychology of Knowledge," in Aryeh Maidenbaum and Stephen A. Martin (eds.), Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians, and Anti-Semitism (Boston: Shambhala, 1991): 241-59.
• "Deconstructive Philosophy and Imaginal Psychology: Comparative Perspectives on Jacques Derrida and James Hillman," in Rajnath (ed.), Deconstruction: A Critique (London: Macmillan, 1989): 138-57.
• "In the Belly of the God: Structures or Archetypes of the Hindu Unconscious," Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 9,1/2 (1988): 28-40.
• "The Interpretation of Unconscious Speech Acts: Conventions, Intentions, and the Profounder Self," College English Association Critic, 51,1 (1988): 114-28.
• "Madness and Right Reason, Extremes of One: The Shadow Archetype in Moby-Dick," Bucknell Review, 31,2 (1988): 97-109.
• "Deconstructive Philosophy and Imaginal Psychology: Comparative Perspectives on Jacques Derrida and James Hillman," Journal of Literary Criticism, 2,1 (1985): 23-39.
• "Sex as Metaphor, Fantasy as Reality: An Imaginal Encounter with Ken Kesey and the Counter-Culture," Indian Journal of American Studies, 15,2 (1985): 83-96.
• "Getting a Kick Out of Captain Ahab: The Merman Dream in Moby-Dick," Dreamworks, 4,4 (1984/85): 279-87.
• "In the Belly of the God: Structures or Archetypes of the Hindu Unconscious," Journal of Literary Studies, 7,1/2 (1984): 1-19.
• "Psychoanalytic Criticism and the Arbitrariness of Interpretation," New Orleans Review, 11,2 (1984): 37-43.
• "On Reading Fiction," Lafayette Alumni Quarterly, 55,3 (1984): 21-3.
• "Pathography, Hawthorne, and the History of Psychological Ideas," Emerson Society Quarterly, 29,3 (1983): 113-26.
• "Whaling and Difference: Moby-Dick Deconstructed," New Orleans Review, 10,4 (1983): 59-64.
• "Ahab's Jonah-and-the-Whale Complex: The Fish Archetype in Moby-Dick," Emerson Society Quarterly, 28,3 (1982): 167-82.
• "The Benzene Uroboros: Plastic and Catastrophe in Gravity's Rainbow," Spring (1981): 149-61.
• "Entropology: The Science of Time, Life, and Death," Lone Star Review (October 1981): 8.
• "From Hiroshima to Three Mile Island: An American Studies Course for the Nuclear Age," Science, Technology, and Society Newsletter (June 1981): 1-5.
• "Madness in Art," in M.E. Grenander (ed.), Asclepius at Syracuse: Thomas Szasz, Libertarian Humanist (Albany, NY: Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1980), 1: 11-18.
• "From Texas to Sussex: An Odyssey of Campus Protest," Encounter (January 1975): 83-9.

Interviews

• "Red Book Dialogue with Sarah Silverman" (New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2009): DVD.
• "Image, Active Imagination, and the Imaginal Level: An Interview with Robert Bosnak," Quadrant, 25,2 (1992): 8-29.
• "The New Age: An Interview with Kathleen Raine," Spring (1982): 113-32.

Reviews

• "The Naked and the Veiled: Soul, Logic, and the Absolute Truth," Round Table Review, 6,4 (1999): 14-17. Review of Wolfgang Giegerich, The Soul's Logical Life: Towards a Rigorous Notion of Psychology.
• Review of Andrew Samuels, The Political Psyche, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 40,1 (1995): 111-13.
• Review of Karin Barnaby and Pellegrino D'Acierno (eds.), C.G. Jung and the Humanities: Toward a Hermeneutics of Culture, Quadrant, 23,2 (1990): 95-8.
• Review of Robert H. Hopcke, A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Quadrant, 23,1: 129-31 and 133-4.
• "Melville as Social Realist," New Criterion (September 1983): 75-8. Review of Michael Paul Rogin, Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville.
• "Musing on Semiotics," Journal of Communication (Winter 1983): 179-81. Review of Thomas A. Sebeok, The Play of Musement.
• "Sontag versus Sontag," New Criterion (November 1982): 84-7. Review of Susan Sontag, A Susan Sontag Reader.
• "As the Fallout Flies," Literary Review (January 1980): 33-4. Review of The Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island.
• "In Praise of Literary Folly," Lone Star Review (December 1980): 9. Review of Lillian Feder, Madness in Literature.
• "The Reality Principle," Commentary (January 1980): 88. Review of Gerald Graff, Literature against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society.
• "Textuality," Quarto (February 1980): 9. Review of William Burroughs, Ah Pook Is Here.
• "The Heroism of Perception," Lone Star Review (December 1979): 7 and 26. Review of Thomas A. Sebeok, The Sign and Its Masters.
• "Intellectual Extremist," Lone Star Review (September 1979): 16 and 24. Review of Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference.
• "Pillow Talk," Commentary (March 1979): 84-6. Review of Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality.
• "The Artist-Criminal," Commentary (August 1978): 76-8. Review of H. Bruce Franklin, The Artist as Criminal: Literature from the American Prison.