David Tacey
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David Tacey (b. 29 October 1953) is a frequent commentator on issues of spirituality in Australia, having appeared in programs broadcast by the ABC, SBS and Channel Four (London).
Dr Tacey is an occasional columnist for The Age and a reviewer for The Australian and occasional reviewer for the Australian Book Review. He is frequent contributor to a number of national and international journals on psychology, psychoanalysis, religion, literature, and the arts
Dr Tacey is Associate Professor of English at La Trobe University at the Bundoora campus in Victoria, Australia. His research interest are in the areas of psychoanalysis, psychology, religion and spirituality and the arts and related literary approaches, taking a post-modern perspective with a particular interest in Australian themes.
He has written a number of books:
- The Spirituality Revolution: the Emergence of Contemporary Spirituality, HarperCollins, 2003
- Jung and the New Age, Brunner-Routledge, 2001.
- Re-enchantment: the New Australian Spirituality, HarperCollins, 2000
- Remaking Men: Jung, Spirituality and Social Change, London and New York: Routledge, 1997. (ISBN 0-415-14241-5)
- published in Australia as Remaking Men: The Revolution in Masculinity, Melbourne: Viking, 1997 (ISBN 0-670-87845-6)
- Edge of the Sacred: Transformation in Australia, Melbourne and Sydney: Harper Collins, 1995.
- Patrick White: Fiction and the Unconscious, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988.
