The Flight Into The Unconscious An Analysis of C.G. Jung's Psychology Project by Wolfgang Giegerich

Spring Journal Books

(the book publishing imprint of Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, the oldest Jungian psychology journal in the world)

The Flight Into The Unconscious

An Analysis of C.G. Jung’s Psychology Project

by Wolfgang Giegerich

ISBN: 978-1-935528-43-2

464 pp.

Price: $32.95

The latest book in the Studies in Archetypal Psychology Series

Series Editor: Greg Mogenson

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 Jung’s insight regarding the discipline’s lack of an objective vantage point outside and beyond the psyche, their Jungian author again and again turns Jung’s 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 psychology’s lack of an Archimedean point would require? Are the interpretations it gives of its various subject matters-alchemy, 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 its own truth? Or clinging to the standpoint of empirical observer, did it ultimately demur with regards to the question of their truth and its own-this despite Jung’s having characterized his work as an opus divinum? Topics include Jung’s psychology project as a response to the condition of the world, the “smuggling” inherent in the logic of “the unconscious,” Jung’s communion fiasco, the closure and setting free dialectic of alchemy and psychology, the blindness to logical form problematic, the faultiness of the opposition “Individual” and “Collective,” Jung’s thinking the thought of not-thinking, the veracity of his Red Book, the disenchantment complex, and, as indicated in the title of this volume, Jung’s psychology project as a counter-speculative “flight into the unconscious.”

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About the Author:

Wolfgang Giegerich,PhD, is a Jungian analyst who after many years in private practice in Stuttgart and later in Wörthsee, near Munich, now lives in Berlin. He has lectured and taught in many countries. His approximately two hundred publications in several languages include numerous books, among themThe Soul’s Logical Life: Towards a Rigorous Notion of Psychology (Peter Lang, 1998; 4th ed. 2007), the previous four volumes of his Collected English Papers: The Neurosis of Psychology, Technology and the Soul, Soul-Violence, and The Soul Always Thinks, as well as What Is Soul? (all published by Spring Journal Books).

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