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The Soul's Logical Life: Towards a Rigorous Notion of Psychology
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The Soul's Logical Life: Towards a Rigorous Notion of Psychology Unknown - 2001

by Giegerich, Wolfgang


From the publisher

C. G. Jung's psychology was based on an authentic notion of soul, but this notion was only intuitive, implicit, not conceptually worked out. His followers forfeit his heritage, often turning psychology either into pop psychology or into a scientific, clinical enterprise. It is the merit of James Hillman's archetypal psychology to have brought back the question of soul to psychology. But as imaginal psychology it cannot truly overcome psychology's positivistic, personalistic bias that it set out to overcome. Its Gods can be shown to be virtual-reality type gods because it avoids the question of Truth. Through what logically is the movement of an absolute-negative interiorization , alchemically a fermenting corruption , and mythologically a Dionysian dismemberment, one has to go beyond the imaginal to a notion of soul as logical life, logical movement. Only then can psychology be freed from its positivism and cease being a subdivision of anthropology, and can the notion of soul be logically released from its attachment to the notion of the human being.

Details

  • Title The Soul's Logical Life: Towards a Rigorous Notion of Psychology
  • Author Giegerich, Wolfgang
  • Binding unknown
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Peter Lang Pub Inc, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-07
  • ISBN 9783631382257

About the author

The Author: Wolfgang Giegerich is a Jungian analyst who, after many years in Stuttgart, now works in private practice as psychotherapist and training analyst near Munich. He has lectured and published internationally. The latest of his many books is Der Jungsche Begriff der Neurose, Frankfurt/Main (Peter Lang) 1999.