Andrew Fellows, Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene. London and New York, Routledge, 2019.
August/September 2019
In this detailed, impressively comprehensive book Andrew Fellows, as his title suggests, writes about the integration of psyche and planet - particularly urgent now in this age of the Anthropocene - by documenting and exploring the correspondence between James Lovelock’s theory of Gaia, Jungian Analytical Psychology and the perspective of Deep Ecology. He is also very aware, as both a trained physicist and Jungian analyst, of the importance of bridging the gap between the two cultures of science and the humanities, which underlies the problematic dualisms of much of our thinking - spirit/matter, mind/ body, nature/culture, individual/society, etc;