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"Dreaming the Myth Onwards" - C. G. Jung on Christianity and on Hegel, Volume 6 (Paperback)
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"Dreaming the Myth Onwards" - C. G. Jung on Christianity and on Hegel, Volume 6 (Paperback)
Series: The Collected English Papers of Wolfgang Giegerich
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The fundamental importance of Christianity for Jung is well
documented in his writings and letters. For the whole of his long
career the great psychologist had wrestled with what he called "
... the great snake of the centuries. the burden of the human mind.
the problem of Christianity." By comparison, his statements about
Hegel are quite scarce. Both topics, nevertheless, have in common
that they elicited from Jung radical accusations, accusations not
presented in the calm tone of a psychological scholar but fired by
a deep-seated personal affect that propelled Jung to wish "to dream
the myth onwards," that is, to move to a new, his own improved and
corrected version of Christianity. Rather than merely portraying
and elucidating Jung's views, this volume critically examines his
theses and arguments by means of a series of close readings and by
confronting his claims with the texts on which his interpretations
are based. The guiding principle, in the spirit of which the
author's investigation is conducted, is the question of the needs
of the soul and the standards of true psychology. While constantly
bearing these needs and standards in mind, diverse topics are
discussed in depth: Jung's interpretation of a dream he had had
about being unable to completely bow down before "the highest
presence," his thesis concerning the patriarchal neglect of the
feminine principle, his views about the alleged one-sidedness of
Christianity, the "recalcitrant Fourth" and the "reality of Evil,"
his understanding of the Trinity and the spirit, his rejection of
Hegel and of speculative thought, and his reaction to the modern
"doubt that has killed" religious faith. A companion to the
preceding volume, The Flight into the Unconscious, the essays
collected here continue its radical critique of Jung's psychology
project, yielding not only deep insights into Jung's personal
religiosity and into what ultimately drove his psychology project
as a whole, but granting as well a more sophisticated understanding
of the psychological potential and telos of the Christian idea.
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