Thinking through Jung

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

12/18/2008

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Psychology

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Summary :

Introduction.
Part 1.
1. Fantasy thinking and the ego.
Part 2.
1. James Hillman's anima based psychology.
2. Thinking as a part of the soul's logical life.
3. Strengthening the position of psychology as a field.
4. The human being as a conscious/unconscious whole.
5. The journey from Jung to Giegerich.
Part 3.
1. Jung's psychology: A privatizing of the contents of the former public traditional knowledge.
2. The idea of the collective unconscious.
3. The esoteric collective representations as pre-modern.
Conclusion.

Abstract

This essay is radically 'Post'-Jungian. As with other essays that I have written it can only exist due to the immersion within Jungian psychology. But in effect I am working through Jungian psychology. Hence one is indebted to jung but nevertheless, most definitely post-Jungian. Carl jung was psychologically pre-modern. He had a thinking and feeling side but when he applied the thinking side to the feeling side of his psychology it was only to declare the feeling side as consisting of untouchable psychic contents which he called archetypes. They were untouchable on the grounds of their sacred luminosity. Part 1 of this essay agrees with jung on his definitions of directed thinking and fantasy thinking. Part 1 is the briefest part of this essay. Part 2 demonstrates how I go beyond jung and beyond James Hillman, and endorse Wolfgang Giegerich's psychology. In general this essay builds on my previous essay that was titled 'A Post-Jungian Perspective on the Psychology of the Pre-Modern Person in today's Modern Western Culture.' Part 3 then looks specifically at the main hypothesis of orthodox Jungian psychology; the archetypes and the collective unconscious. In that part of the essay we will quote jung and then critically respond to what he says.