Jung and Levinas: An Ethics of Mediation

ISBN-13: 9780815358978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str.

Australia) Frances (University of Queensland Gray

Opis

This book brings C.G. Jung and his successors in type theory into conversation with the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. It takes a radical view of post-modernist theory which, the author argues, is relentlessly introverted. A turn to the face of the other signals the disruption of the introversion endemic to Western culture at the moment; this is both a moral and an existential turn. A conception of mediation as transformative, and thus therapeutic, practice requires a recognition of psychic worlds beyond our own and a considered, skilled extraverted turn that simultaneously engages different psychic functions and the potential for transformation of relationship and self.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  Preface.  Introduction: Mediation as Therapeutics  1. Mediation as Therapy: Time and Memory  2. Narrative and Conversational Texts  3. The Face in the Ambiguity of Otherness  4. The Face in the Ambiguity of Otherness: Responsibility Issues  5. Thinking about Conflict: Strife and Love  6. Listening: Mediation as Ethics.  Conclusion: Sometimes None of This Works . . .

O autorze

Frances Gray is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is a mediator and yoga teacher.