Neurosis: The Logic of a Metaphysical Illness

ISBN-13: 9780367477219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 464 str.

Wolfgang Giegerich

Opis

Giegerich returns to the roots of psychoanalysis, as a treatment for neurosis, and revisits the concept of ‘soul’ in the history of psychology.

Spis treści

Introduction: Neurosis from the perspective of the soul's logical life;  Part 1: The concept of neurosis;  Part 2: The historicity of neurosis: its historical enabling conditions;  Part 3: The internal logic and functioning of neurosis;  Part 4: Neurosis in the context of normal life;  Part 5: The soul issue, meaning, and purpose of neurosis as a cultural phenomenon;  Part 6: The Absolute's further-determination in its striving for its incarnation as immediate present reality: or the semantics of neurosis;  Appendix;  Index

O autorze

Wolfgang Giegerich is a Jungian analyst, now living in Berlin, and the author of numerous books, among them What is Soul? and his Collected English Papers, volumes 1-6.