Jung and Kierkegaard: Researching a Kindred Spirit in the Shadows

ISBN-13: 9781138680272 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 248 str.

Amy Cook

Opis

Jung and Kierkegaard identifies authenticity, suffering and self-deception as the three key themes that connect the work of Carl Jung and Søren Kierkegaard. There is, in the thinking of these pioneering psychologists of the human condition, a fundamental belief in the healing potential of a religious outlook.

Spis treści

Dedication  Acknowledgements  Part One  1. Introduction  2. A Holy Kind of Healing  3. Some Striking Similarities: Personal and Philosophical  4. Introducing Kierkegaard  5. Presenting Jung  6. The Wounds of the Father: A Shared Inheritance  Part Two  7. An Unconventional Christianity  8. Jung and Religion  9. The Therapeutic Value of Faith  10. Grounding Ethics in Spirit: The Medium of our Self-Realization  11. Suffering and the Pain of Personal Growth: Perrissem, Nisi Perissem  12. Authenticity: The Creation of One’s Genuine Self  Part Three  13. "That Religious Neurotic": Kierkegaard on the Couch  14. Keeping Mum: A Powerful Silence  15. Søren’s Spiritual Castration: A Father’s Influence  16. To Marry or to Martyr  17. The Final Years of Søren Kierkegaard: A Story of Archetypal Compensation  Part Four  18. The Nature of a Kierkegaardian Neurosis: Jung’s Reception of Kierkegaard  19. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Polar Opposites in the Mind of Jung  20. Summary of Discussion  21. Conclusion  22. Epilogue: Jung and Kierkegaard: A Legacy Considered  23. Bibliography

O autorze

Amy Cook graduated with a degree in History from the University of Aberdeen in 2005. She then went on to study a masters in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at Essex University before completing another masters in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies. After a brief spell teaching overseas, Amy returned to the UK and began a PhD at Bangor University.　She currently lives in North Wales, where she works with young carers　to support and encourage them to fulfil their full potential.