The New
Dissociationism The Research of Faith Harkey .

Articles.

Open Access

Complex psychology

• Superpowered: Celebrating the complex-driven psyche
  Too often cast as villains, our ‘complexes’ are, in truth, a foundational part of the psyche. When we discover just how much they have to offer, our parts can become the superheroes of our unconscious world.
• How does it feel when a complex is active?
  Psychological concepts are often best understood through the lens of our experience. We can get to know our complexes, or subpersonalities, by considering what it feels like when they are present and active.
• Daughter of God:
  The personal complex in the life of Joan of Arc
  Perhaps one of history’s most beautiful and tragic figures, Joan of Arc’s story offers a study of the personal complex in psyche, in religion, and in our wider human narrative.
• Multiple personality:
  The complex psychology of Dissociative Identity Disorder
  Previously known as multiple personality disorder, DID opens the door to a complex-based understanding of the plural psyche and the shared origins of alters and complexes.
• It’s a complex story:
  Complex in fairy tale and myth
  Myths and fairy tales reflect the processes of psyche, the nature of complexes, and the archetypes that underlie them.
• Three archetypal images for complex psychology: Saturn, Mercury and Matangi
  Many archetypes give us insight into the nature of complexes. Here we explore the archetypal images of Saturn, Mercury, and Matangi, each with a connection to complex psychology.

Imaginal practice

• Imaginal research:
  Exploring the unconscious psyche
  Imaginal research explores the subtle territories of the unconscious psyche, enters into the terrain of imagination, and establishes the imaginal as a legitimate means of discovering knowledge.
• The imaginal: Why it matters
  Imaginal research starts with a simple premise: what happens in the unconscious mind is at least as important as what occurs in our conventional consciousness. It is, after all, the source of our imagination, the arena of our dreams, the origin of our art and literature, of our most rightening impulses and our loveliest aspirations.
• What is imaginal ethics?
  Imaginal ethics concern the ways we treat our inner ‘others.’ But who are these figures and why do we need to approach them ethically?
• Perfected friendship:
  Rethinking our approach to inner relationships
  From the perspective of complex psychology, Aristotle’s teleia philia can be applied to our inner relationships.
• Machiavelli:
  Academy of active imagination
  A close reading of Niccolò Machiavelli reveals insight into his imaginal practice and his unconscious psyche.
• Tools and resources for imaginal work
  Whether you are a clinician, a creative, or a general-interest reader, here you’ll find resources to go deeper into your own imaginal work.

New Jungian perspectives

• Towards a new dissociationism
  It is time to flip the predominant narrative around dissociation — to acknowledge illness states, but to establish that dissociation is foundational and essential to psyche.
• The torch-bearers:
  Jungian applications in gifted studies
  An exploration of the connections between Jungian thought and the field of gifted studies, this article also addresses the structure of the gifted psyche.

Monographs.

Open Access

• Lit from within:
  Telos, giftedness and the personal complex
  Gifted and talented people often feel compelled, driven, even a bit obsessed — but why? This master’s dissertation proposes that the Jungian complex forms the basis of the telos — the powerful self-directedness — that one encounters in the gifted.
• A complex collaboration:
  Psychic plurality in creative writers
  Currently in progress, this is my full doctoral thesis, a book-length study which I expect to complete at the end of this year. This monograph will be my most extended work of new dissociationism to date, and will be posted here in early 2027.

Lexicon.

• Active imagination
• Adler, Alfred
• Affect
• Anima and animus
• Archetype
• Association
• Collective shadow
• Collective unconscious
• Compensation
• Complex
• Complex psychology
• Consciousness
• Constellation
• Dissociation
• Dissociationism
• Dissociative disorder
• Dream
• Dreamwork
• Ego
• Freud, Sigmund
• Giftedness
• Hermeneutics
• Imaginal
• Individuation
• Ineffable
• Jung, Carl Gustav
• Lucid dreaming
• Methodology
• Multiple personality

• Multiplicity
• Myth
• Normative multiplicity
• Numinous
• Participation mystique
• Pathology
• Persona
• Personification
• Phenomenological Practice-as-Research
• Phenomenology
• Projection
• Psyche
• Psychic
• Psychic plurality
• Psychic reality
• Psychoid
• Psychology
• Psychotic disorder
• Self
• Shadow
• Shamanic journeying
• Sign
• Subpersonalities
• Symbol
• Synchronicity
• Telos
• Transcendent function
• Trauma
• Unconscious

Bookshelf.

• Answer to Job
  C.G. Jung
• The Art of Inquiry
  Joseph Coppin, Elizabeth Eowyn Nelson
• A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis
  Andrew Samuels, Bani Shorter, Fred Plaut
• The Greek Myths
  Robert Graves
• Inner Work
  Robert A. Johnson
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  Susanna Clarke, film adaptation by Peter Harness
• Jung: A Biography
  Deirdre Bair
• Jung’s Map of the Soul
  Murray Stein
• Jung On Active Imagination
  C.G. Jung
• Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds
  Brandon Sanderson
• Lisey’s Story
  Stephen King
• Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming
  Clare R. Johnson, PhD
• Memories, Dreams, Reflections
  C.G. Jung
• Modern Man in Search of a Soul
  C.G. Jung
• No Bad Parts
  Richard Schwartz
• Passage
  Connie Willis
• The Red Book
  C.G. Jung
• Shadow and Evil in Fairytales
  Marie-Louise von Franz
• The Soul’s Code
  James Hillman
• Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  Roald Dahl, film adaptation by Mel Stuart
• Your Symphony of Selves
  James Fadiman, Jordan Gruber