Staff Profile of Dr Lucy Huskinson

Name:

Dr Lucy Huskinson

Position:

Senior Lecturer

Email:

l.huskinson@bangor.ac.uk

Location:

T24 Tower, Main Arts Building

Phone:

+44 (0)1248 382768

Background

I have been asking questions about ontology and the limits of human experience for as long as I can remember. Although my language and comprehension of metaphysical questions has developed considerably over the years (through my philosophical and psychoanalytic research and training), I find I continue to ask the same questions.

I read Philosophy for my first degree. During my studies I became most impressed by ideas of Nietzsche, Levinas, and Freud. My studies on Freud led to an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies in 1998. Here I was introduced to the work of C.G. Jung, which, I found, enchoed strongly my previous readings of Nietzsche. This echo informed my PhD thesis on Nietzsche and Jung. My argument sought to expose and evaluate a teleological process of human fulfilment within their complex models of human development and creativity. After being awarded my PhD in 2003, I became a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK; and later a visiting fellow at the University of Monash and La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. I was appointed to the Bangor faculty in 2007.

During my PhD and postdoctoral studies I also trained as a psychodynamic counsellor (BACP and WPF accredited), and received my qualification in 2005.

I am co Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Jungian Studies (published by Routledge), and continue to be a Visiting Fellow and occasional lecturer at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex.

Modules Taught

Psychology of Religion
Philosophy of Religion
The Meaning of Symbols

Responsibilities

Director of Post Graduate Studies
Admissions Officer
Senior Undergraduate Tutor
College of Arts and Humanities Research Ethics Board
Peer Guide Coordinator
Web Officer

Research Expertise

The overlap between psychology, philosophy, mental health and religion/spirituality.

Depth psychology (psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, and object relations: especially C.G.Jung, Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Bollas)
Continental philosophy (especially Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Levinas)
Mental health and religion/spirituality (especially deconstructing psychological diagnoses of religious experience)
'Madness' and creativity
Symbolism and iconography
Myth
Place and experience

I am currently writing a monograph on the relevance of architectural theory and practice to philosophy and psychology. This research explores the phenomenology and ontology of place, with particular emphasis on the meaning of 'dwelling' as a location for the revelation of being and mediator of human experience.

I currently supervise six PhD students in either the psychology of religion or philosophy of religion. Please enquire about my availability for doctoral (PhD) supervision.

I have had considerable experience as external examiner of PhD theses.

Recent Publications

Books

Architecture of the Psyche: How buildings make or break our lives. Psychoanalytic and Jungian perspectives. Routledge: London and New York. Forthcoming
Spirit Possession and Trance: New Interdisciplinary Perspective (co-editor, with Bettina Schmidt) Continuum, 2010
Introduction to Nietzsche: His Religious Thought, Hendrickson: Massachusetts (2009); The SPCK Introduction to Nietzsche: His Religious Thought, SPCK: London (2009)
Dreaming the Myth Onwards: New Directions in Jungian Therapy and Thought, Routledge: London and New York, January 2008 (editor, and author of chapter one: 'Ordinarily Mythical')
Nietzsche and Jung: The Whole Self in the Union of Opposites, Brunner-Routledge: Hove and New York, 2004. [Translated into Persian, Markaz: Iran, forthcoming, with additional prologue: 'Zarathustra, Persian Prophet of Opposites']

Book Chapters

‘Exorcism and Deliverance in Popular Culture’ in Exorcism and Deliverance: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives (eds William K. Kay and Robin A. Parry), Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2011.
‘Anatomy of Genius: Inspiration through Banality and Boring People' in House: The Wounded Healer on Television (eds. Leslie Gardner and L.J.Hockley), London and New York: Routledge, 2010
‘Analytical Psychology and Spirit Possession: Towards a Non-Pathological Diagnosis’ in Spirit Possession and Trance, 2010.
'Ordinarily Mythical' in Dreaming the Myth Onwards (above)
'Archetypal Dwelling, Building Individuation' in Psyche and the Arts: Jungian Approaches to Music, Architecture, Literature, Painting and Film edited by Susan Rowland, Routledge: London and New York, May, 2008
'Holy, Holy, Holy: The Misappropriation of the Numinous in Jung', in The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives , edited by Ann Casement and David Tacey, Routledge: London and New York, 2006

Refereed Articles

'Housing Complexes: redesigning the house of psyche in light of Gaston Bachelard's curious mistranslation of C.G. Jung. Under review.
'The Self as Violent Other: The Problem of Defining the Self', The Journal of Analytical Psychology , 2002, Vol 47: 439-60.
'The Relation of Non-Relation: The Interaction of Opposites, Compensation, and Teleology in C.G.Jung's Model of the Psyche, Harvest, Journal for Jungian Studies, 2000, Vol. 46 (1): 7-25.