The Alchemy of Discourse: Image, Sound and Psyche - Softcover

Paul Kugler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 385630617X ISBN 13: 9783856306175

Publisher: Daimon Books, 2003

Synopsis

In recent years the function of language, narrative and text in psychic life has taken on increasing significance in depth psychology. "The Alchemy of Discourse" examines language in relation to psychic formation, beginning with the role played by images and words in the onset of subjectivity. Through a careful examination of Jung''s early word association experiments coupled with recent developments in Lacanian psychoanalysis, Dr Kugler offers a re-conceptualisation of the origin and function of the Jungian divided subject (ego/self). For those just beginning to explore the role of language in psychic life, this book provides an accessible entry point, with its clear explication of key terms together with their historical and conceptual background. The book will be a valuable resource for psychoanalysts, students and trainees in depth psychology, and for writers, critical theorists, philosophers and historians of ideas.

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About the Author

Paul Kugler is a psychoanalyst in private practice in East Aurora, New York. In the 1970's he received his analytic training at the Jung Institute in Zurich and has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo. A past president of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, he is the author of numerous publications articulating the interface between Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Daimon Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 385630617X
• ISBN 13: 9783856306175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 141