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Description of  The Flight into The Unconscious: An Analysis of C. G. Jung s Psychology Project, Volume 5 (The Collected English Papers of Wolfgang Giegerich)

0367485206 rar Psychological analysis usually sets its sights upon the patient or upon cultural phenomena such as myths, literature, or works of art. The essays in this volume, by contrast, have another addressee, another subject matter: psychology itself. Deeply informed by Jungsinsight regarding the disciplines lack of an objective vantage point outside and beyond the psyche, their Jungian author again and again turns Jungs contribution to psychology around upon itself in the spirit of an immanent critique. Cutting to the quick, the question is put: in its constitution as psychology is Jungian psychology up to the level of what its insight into psychologys lack of an Archimedean point would require? Are the interpretations it gives of its various subject mattersalchemy, religion, the unconscious and the rest-matched by its interpretation of itself? Has its meeting itself in them had consequences for itself, consequences in terms of the fathoming of Read more