Changemakers: A Jungian Perspective on Sibling Position and the Family Atmosphere

220 Pages·1992·6.593 MB·English

by  Louis H. Stewart

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CHANGEMAKERS
A Jungian perspective on sibling position and
the family atmosphere
LOUIS H. STEWART
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Changemakers
Changemakers reveals a startling new perspective on the family as it
focuses on the largely unconscious factors that determine the use and
abuse of power. Louis H. Stewart explores the many aspects of the
family, looking in particular at the relation between birth order and
political genius. He takes up the four basic sibling positions, shows how
each is related to a corresponding style of political leadership, reviews
the literature on birth order, and presents a study of American
presidents and British prime ministers over some two hundred years.
Stewart describes a fourfold cycle of creative change that occurs in
every field of endeavour. It requires the contribution of individuals of
genius who embody the viewpoints inherent in each of the four basic
sibling positions: the last born is the rebel, finely tuned to the winds of
change; the intermediate born is also frequently a rebel but, because of
the vantage point between older and younger, a master of accommoda­
tion and mediation; the first born is the preserver, the extender and
developer, the carrier of tradition; and the only child is the synthesizer,
the carrier of the opposites, being both first and last. Stewart’s
exploration takes place in the context of depth psychology and leads
him to develop a new hypothesis about the nature and function of the
emotions, which he sees as motivating and transformational forces that
shape every kind of human development, creative and destructive alike.
Stewart extends his study to look at the lives and family background
of leaders who have been in the news, including Mikhail Gorbachev
and Saddam Hussein. Of special interest to psychotherapists, psycho­
logists, political scientists and sociologists, Changemakers will also have a
wide general appeal.
Louis H. Stewart is an analyst member and former President of the C.
G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is Professor Emeritus of
Psychology, San Francisco State University, and is a Clinical Professor
of Medical Psychology at the University of California at San Francisco.
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Changemakers
A Jungian perspective on sibling
position and the family atmosphere
Louis H. Stewart
London and New York
First published in 1992
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Stewart, Louis H.
Changemakers: a Jungian perspective on sibling position and the family
atmosphere/Louis H. Stewart,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Birth order. 2. Social change—Psychological aspects.
3. Politicians—Psychology—Case studies. 4. Psychoanalysts—
Psychology—Case studies. 5. Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav),
1875-1961. I. Title.
BF723.B5S74 1992
155.9'24—dc20 92-1050
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