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Through his clinical work and extensive engagement with major
figures of the philosophical tradition, Jung developed an original
and pluralistic psycho-ethical model based on the cooperation of
consciousness with the unconscious mind. By drawing on direct
quotations from Jung's collected works, The Red Book, and his
interviews and seminars - as well as from seminal texts by Kant,
Nietzsche, Aristotle and Augustine - Giovanni Colacicchi provides a
philosophically grounded analysis of the ethical relevance of
Jung's analytical psychology and of the concept of individuation
which is at its core. The author argues that Jung transforms Kant's
consciousness of duty into the duty to be conscious while also
endorsing Nietzsche's project of an individual ethics beyond
collective morality. Colacicchi shows that Jung is concerned, like
Aristotle, with the human need to acquire a balance between reason
and emotions; and that Jung puts forward, with his understanding of
the shadow, a moral psychology of the Christian notion of evil.
Jung's psycho-ethical paradigm is thus capable of integrating
ethical theories which are often read as mutually exclusive.
Psychology as Ethics will be of interest to researchers in the
history of ideas and the philosophy of the unconscious, as well as
to therapists and counsellors who wish to place their psychodynamic
work in its philosophical context. It will also be a key reference
for undergraduate and postgraduate courses and seminars in Jungian
and Post-Jungian studies, philosophy, psychoanalytic studies,
psychology, religious studies and the social sciences.
Through his clinical work and extensive engagement with major
figures of the philosophical tradition, Jung developed an original
and pluralistic psycho-ethical model based on the cooperation of
consciousness with the unconscious mind. By drawing on direct
quotations from Jung's collected works, The Red Book, and his
interviews and seminars - as well as from seminal texts by Kant,
Nietzsche, Aristotle and Augustine - Giovanni Colacicchi provides a
philosophically grounded analysis of the ethical relevance of
Jung's analytical psychology and of the concept of individuation
which is at its core. The author argues that Jung transforms Kant's
consciousness of duty into the duty to be conscious while also
endorsing Nietzsche's project of an individual ethics beyond
collective morality. Colacicchi shows that Jung is concerned, like
Aristotle, with the human need to acquire a balance between reason
and emotions; and that Jung puts forward, with his understanding of
the shadow, a moral psychology of the Christian notion of evil.
Jung's psycho-ethical paradigm is thus capable of integrating
ethical theories which are often read as mutually exclusive.
Psychology as Ethics will be of interest to researchers in the
history of ideas and the philosophy of the unconscious, as well as
to therapists and counsellors who wish to place their psychodynamic
work in its philosophical context. It will also be a key reference
for undergraduate and postgraduate courses and seminars in Jungian
and Post-Jungian studies, philosophy, psychoanalytic studies,
psychology, religious studies and the social sciences.
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