Faith 'Fey' Harkey
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Writers & Writing
- Gifted & Talented
- Normative Multiplicity
- Imaginal Ethics
Biography
Harkey is a postgraduate researcher in the department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies. Her scholarly work explores the connections between Jungian psychology and authorship. She is also the author of two middle-grade novels, including Genuine Sweet (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which was listed as one of the Best Children's Books of the Year by the Bank Street Center for Children's Literature.
Qualifications
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MA Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies University of Essex (2024)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Normative Multiplicity
The Jungian approach to psyche suggests that we are, each of us, a community of inner parts with their own preferences, interests, and modes of being. This is not a pathological situation; it is a fascinating, perhaps even lovely facet of being human.
Gifted and Talented Adults -- Authorship
So much more than high-IQ and high-ability, many gifted individuals also lead rich and highly imaginal interior lives. I am especially interested in the inner territories of those with literary talent.
Writers’ Notebooks
Writers’ notebooks offer rich, intimate accounts of the challenges authors encounter both in psyche and on the page. Often astonishingly transparent, these journals provide an incomparable window into the writing life.
