Staff profile

Dr David Tacey

Associate Professor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 524, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA Hons (Flinders), PhD (Adelaide).

Membership of professional Associations

Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche (San Francisco); Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture (New Orleans); International Journal of Psychotherapy and Politics (London and Chicago).

Area of study

Religion and Spirituality
English
Creative Arts

Brief Profile

From the beginning of my academic career, I have worked as an interdisciplinary scholar, and my first university degree was in philosophy, literary studies, and art history. In my honours degree, I specialised in modernism, existentialism, and surrealism. My PhD thesis at the University of Adelaide was in literary studies and analytical psychology, under the supervision of Professor John Colmer and Professor Brian Elliott. In 1982 I was awarded a Harkness Fellowship from the Commonwealth Fund of New York, and in the United States I conducted a two-year postdoctoral program in the fields of archetypal psychology and comparative mythology, under the supervision of Professor James Hillman. In recent years, I have been researching and publishing in a newly emerging academic field called spirituality studies, an area which has emerged out of the interactions of religious studies and theology, depth psychology, sociology, philosophy, and education theory. At La Trobe University, I teach courses on spirituality and cultural studies, analytical psychology, and literature. I teach a 4th and 5th year subject on the theme of transcendence in contemporary philosophy, depth psychology and literature, and I alternate this with a subject on ecocriticism and environmental psychology. David is also a member of the International Journal of Children’s Spirituality (Brighton, England); Spirituality and Health International (London).

Research interests

Literary Studies

- Literary and Cultural Studies

Philosophy of the Mind

- Philosphy

Religion and Society

- Theology

Recent Publications

Spirituality and Mental Health: Jung, Gods, Diseases. Forthcoming 2010.

 

Edge of the Sacred: Jung, Psyche, Earth, Einsiedein, Switzerland: Daimon Verlag, 2009. This book is a fully revised and updated international edition of the 1995 book. For information about this book, please consult: http://www.daimon.ch/Tacey+Edge+Sacred. For a brief outline of the book, please google: Edge of the Sacred, Jung, Psyche, Earth - Google Books.

 

Edge of the Sacred: Jung, Psyche, Earth. Revised International Edition. Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Daimon Verlag, 2009. ISBN 13: 978 3 85630 729 5.

 

How to Read Jung, London: Granta 2006. ISBN 10: 1-86207-726-6. Republished in the United States: How to Read Jung. New York: W.W Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN 13: 978-0-393-32953-7.

 

Translated into Korean by Woongjin books, Seoul, Korea, 2008. ISBN 13:-89-01-09015-3. Currently being translated into Chinese (Cantonese), 2009.

 

The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Edited by Ann Casement and David Tacey. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. ISBN 1-58391-783-7 (hbk.) 1-58391-784-5 (pbk.)

 

The Spirituality Revolution: The Emergence of Contemporary Spirituality. Sydney: Harper Collins, 2003. ISBN 0-7322-7173-8 (pbk.) Republished in a British and North American Edition: The Spirituality Revolution: The Emergence of Contemporary Spirituality. London and New York: Brunner- Routledge, 2004. ISBN 1-58391-873-6 (hbk.) 1-58391-874-4 (pbk.)

 

Jung and the New Age. London and New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2001. ISBN 1-58391-159-6 (hbk.) 1-58391-160-X (pbk.)

 

ReEnchantment: The New Australian Spirituality. Sydney: HarperCollins, 2000. ISBN 0 7322 6524 X (pbk).

 

Remaking Men: Jung, Spirituality and Social Change. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. ISBN 0-415-174240-7 (hbk.) 0-4154-14241-5 (pbk.) Republished in an Australian and New Zealand Edition, with a different title: Remaking Men: The Revolution in Masculinity. Melbourne: Viking Penguin, 1997. ISBN 0-670-87845-6 (pbk.).

 

Edge of the Sacred: Transformation in Australia. Melbourne: HarperCollins, 1995; and Sydney: HarperCollins, 1998. ISBN 1 86371 408 1 (pbk.).

 

Patrick White: Fiction and the Unconscious. Melbourne and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 10: 0 19554867 1 (hbk.).

 

Creative Writing / Memoir:

 

'Towards the Dreaming Place'. In Kali Wendorf (ed.) Stories of Belonging. Sydney: Finch Publishing, 2009, 116-133. ISBN: 978-1-9214-6208-5. ISBN 13: 9780195548679.

 

Chapters in books:

 

I have published numerous chapters in various books, and the following is a selection only:

 

‘Jung: Rebuilding the Temenos’. In Raya Jones and Murray Stein (eds.) Cultures and Identities in Transition. London and New York: Routledge, 2010, 126-137.

 

‘Extraversion, with Soul’. 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.

 

‘Teaching Jung in the University’. In Kelly Bulkeley and Clodagh Weldon (eds) Teaching Jung on Religious Studies. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press and American Academy of Religion, 2010.

 

‘Spirituality and Mental Health: The Mystery of Healing’. In Marian De Souza, Leslie Francis, James O’Higgins-Norman and Daniel Scott (eds) International Handbook of Education for Spirituality, Care and Wellbeing. International Handbooks of Religion and Education Vol 3. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer, 2009, 275-290. e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9018-9. ISBN 978-1-4020-9017-2.

 

‘Spirituality in Australia Today’. In Makarand Paranjape (ed.) Sacred Australia: Post-Secular Considerations. Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan, 2009, 44-64. ISBN: 978-0-9802983-9-0.

 

‘Imagining Transcendence at the End of Modernity: Jung and Derrida’. In Lucy Huskinson (ed). Dreaming the Myth Onwards: New Directions in Jungian Therapy and Thought. London and New York: Routledge, 2008, 58-68. ISBN: 978-0-415-43837-7.

 

‘The Challenge of Teaching Jung in the University’. Chapter 4 in Ann Casement (ed). Who Owns Jung? London: Karnac, 2007, 53-71. ISBN-13: 978-1-85575-403-4 ‘The Role of the Numinous in the Reception of Jung’. Chapter 14 in Ann Casement and David Tacey (eds). The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. ISBN 1-58391-783-7.

 

‘Spirituality as a Bridge to Religion and Faith’. In De Souza, M., Engebretson, K., Durka, G., Jackson, R., McGrady, A., (eds). International Handbook of the Religious, Moral and Spiritual Dimensions of Education. Amsterdam: Springers, 2006, 201-214. ISBN-13 978-1-4020-4803-6.

 

(2005) ‘Spiritual Perspectives on Suicidal Impulses in Young Adults’. In Richard H. Cox, Betty Ervin-Cox, and Louis Hoffman (Eds). Spirituality and Psychological Health. Colorado Springs: Colorado School of Professional Psychology Press, 107-128.

 

(2005) ‘Encountering Tradition in a Postmodern Context’. In Cathy Ota and Clive Erricker (Eds). Spiritual Education: Literary, Empirical and Pedagogical Approaches. Brighton, England: Sussex Academic Press, pp. 175-189.

 

Journals:

 

I have published over 120 essays and articles in various national and international journals. These include journals of analytical psychology, cultural studies, and critical enquiry. These journals include the following:

 

Analytical Psychology:

 

Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche (San Francisco); The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal (California); The Journal of Analytical Psychology (London); Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture (New Orleans); The Round Table Press Review (Philadelphia); Harvest: Journal for Contemporary Jungian Studies and Culture (London);Psychological Perspectives (Los Angeles); Sphinx: A Journal of Archetypal Psychology and the Arts (London); Lapis: A Journal of Archetype and Culture (Chicago).

 

Religion and Spirituality:

 

The International Journal of Children’s Spirituality (Brighton, England); Spirituality and Health International (London); Studies in Spirituality (Leuven, Belgium); Interface: A Forum for Theology in the World (Adelaide); Zadok Perspectives (Melbourne); Journal of the Tertiary Campus Ministry Association (Perth); Dialogue Australasia (Sydney); The Summit (Melbourne); Eremos: Journal of the Eremos Institute (Sydney).

 

Sociology, Literature, Culture:

 

The Social Ecology Journal (Sydney); Australian Humanities Review (Melbourne); Psychotherapy in Australia (Melbourne); Temenos: Australian Jungian and Cultural Review (Canberra); Island (Hobart); Quadrant (Melbourne); Meridian (Melbourne); Meanjin (Melbourne); Southern Review (Sydney); Australian Literary Studies (Brisbane); Australian Book Review (Melbourne); Hysteric: Body, Medicine, Text (Melbourne).