Articles, Interviews, and Reviews

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

Articles

• "The Islamic Cultural Unconscious in the Dreams of a Contemporary Muslim Man: Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, 8,1 (2006): 31-40.
• "Mythological Knowledge: Just How Important Is It in Jungian (and Freudian) Analysis?," Harvest, 48,1 (2002): 7-21.
• "African-American Dreaming and the Beast of Racism: The Cultural Unconscious and Jungian Analysis," Psychoanalytic Psychology, 19,1 (Winter 2002): 182-98.
• "The Window Knew Best: A Response to Robert Tyminski," Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, 2 (2000): 57-9.
• "Compensation in the Service of Individuation: Phenomenological Essentialism and Jungian Dream Interpretation," Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10,1 (2000): 127-42.
• "For Love of the Imagination," in Joseph Reppen (ed.), Why I Became a Psychotherapist (Northvale, NJ, and London: Jason Aronson, 1998), 1-14.
• "Race, the Unconscious, and New York City," Lapis, 6 (1998): 68-72.
• "Noll and Void: The Jung Scholarship of Richard Noll," Round Table Review, 5,3 (January/February 1998): 11-16.
• "Desegregating the White Ego: Racism and the Ethic of White Civilization," Spring, 62 (Fall/Winter 1997): 87-103.
• "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 (November/December 1997): 3, 15, and 17-18.
• "The Archetypal School," in Polly Young-Eisendrath and Terrence Dawson (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Jung (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 101-18.
• "Metaphors in Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy," Clinical Social Work Journal, 25,1 (Spring 1997): 27-39.
• "Jung and Racism," Self & Society, 25,1 (March 1997): 19-23. Reprinted in Umbrella Group Newsletter, 2 (Autumn/Winter 1999): 19-23.
• "Flowers and Fungi: Archetypal Semiotics and Visual Metaphor," Spring, 59 (Spring 1996): 131-55.
• "Jungians and Deconstruction," Round Table Review, 3,1 (September/October 1995): 3 and 7.
• "Policing the Unconscious: Law and Order in the Psyche," Spring, 56 (Fall 1994): 65-77.
• "Psychoanalytic Studies in British and American Universities: The Kent and New School Programs," International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education Newsletter, 3,1 (Spring/Summer 1993): 20-6.
• "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.
• "Dreams as Complexes: Jung's Dream of the Brown Horse and Heavy Log," Quadrant, 24,1 (1991): 44-63.
• "The Interpretation of Unconscious Speech Acts: Conventions, Intentions, and the Profounder Self," College English Association Critic, 51,1 (Fall 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 (June 1985): 23-39. Reprinted in Rajnath (ed.), Deconstruction: A Critique (London: Macmillan, 1989), 138-57, and in Richard P. Sugg (ed.), Jungian Literary Criticism (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1992), 231-48.
• "Sex as Metaphor, Fantasy as Reality: An Imaginal Re-Encounter with Ken Kesey and the Counter-Culture," Indian Journal of American Studies, 15,2 (Summer 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 (December 1984): 1-19. Revised and reprinted in Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 9,1/2 (March 1988): 28-40.
• "Psychoanalytic Criticism and the Arbitrariness of Interpretation," New Orleans Review, 11,2 (Summer 1984): 37-43.
• "On Reading Fiction," Lafayette Alumni Quarterly, 55,3 (Spring 1984): 21-3.
• "Whaling and Difference: Moby-Dick Deconstructed," New Orleans Review, 10,4 (Winter 1983): 59-64.
• "Pathography, Hawthorne, and the History of Psychological Ideas," Emerson Society Quarterly, 29,3 (3rd Quarter 1983): 113-26.
• "Ahab's Jonah-and-the-Whale Complex: The Fish Archetype in Moby-Dick," Emerson Society Quarterly, 28,3 (3rd Quarter 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 Conference Proceedings (Albany: Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1980), I: 11-18.
• "From Texas to Sussex: An Odyssey of Campus Protest," Encounter (January 1975): 83-9.

Interviews

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