Psychological and Philosophical Studies of Jung's Teleology: The Future-Orientation of Mind

ISBN-13: 9781032536248 / Angielski

Garth Amundson

Opis

This important new volume addresses an underappreciated dimension of Jung’s work, his concept of the teleology, or “future-orientation”, of psychic reality.

Spis treści

Introduction: Jung’s Teleology: its Historical Origins and Place in his Theory  1. Coming into Being: Telos in Jung and Bion  2. On Truth, Reasonable Certainty, and God: Conviction as Revelatory Process in Peirce and Jung  3. Jung’s Call to Eros: a Personal Journey  4. The Ravenous Hydra and the Great Tree of Peace: The Teleology of Indigenous and European Civilizations  5. Archetype of the Machine  6. The Dance of Limit and Possibility

 

O autorze

Garth Amundson is a clinical psychologist in practice in Chicago, Illinois, USA. His past publications include a study of the application of Jungian theory to adolescent psychotic states and the concordance of dimensions of American philosophical pragmatism with Jung’s ideas. This is his first edited volume.