Psychology as Ethics: Reading Jung with Kant, Nietzsche and Aristotle
(Philosophy and Psychoanalysis) 1st Edition
by Giovanni Colacicchi (Author)
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.
DETAILS:
Year: 2021
Pages: 165
Language: English
Format: PDF
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-10: 0367529238, 0367529211
ISBN-13: 978-0367529239, 978-0367529215, 9780367529239, 9780367529215
ASIN: B08FKG729R
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