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

Giegerich, Wolfgang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631382251 ISBN 13: 9783631382257

Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2001

Synopsis

C.G. Jung's authentic notion of soul was only intuitive, implicit, not conceptually worked out, and he was not always true to what his own notion would have i required. His followers.forfeit his heritage, often turning psychology into pop psychology or reducing it to a scientific and clinical enterprise. Psychology is not one of the sciences and not a branch of medicine, but sublated science, sublated medicine. It is the merit of James Hillman's archetypal or imaginal psychology to have brought back the question of soul to psychology. However, a critical analysis shows that a psychology based on the imagination cannot truly overcome the positivistic, personalistic prejudice that it set out to overcome. As polytheistic psychology it also succumbs to nostalgia and misses the real plight of today's soul. Because it has no notion of truth, its "Gods" are shown to be virtual-reality type gods. One has to go beyond imaginal psychology and advance to a notion of soul as logical life, logical movement. Only then can psychology be freed from its inherent positivism and cease being a subdivision of anthropology. The notion of soul is logically released from its attachment to the notion of the human being.

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About the Author:

WOLFGANG GIEGERICH is one of archetypal psychology's most innovative thinkers. A Jungian analyst in Woethsee, Germany, he lectures internationally and is the author of numerous books about Jungian psychology. DAVID L. MILLER, Ph.D., is Watson-Ledden Professor of Religion, Emeritus at Syracuse University and served as a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara from 1991 until 2004. GREG MOGENSON is a widely published Jungian analyst from London, Ontario, Canada and a long-time contributor to the field of archetypal psychology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 3631382251
• ISBN 13: 9783631382257
• Binding: Paperback