Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book
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Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book
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One of Lament’s biggest strengths and weaknesses is that it sees through the misappropriations of Jungian psychology over the last hundred years.
Miller, Transcendent Function: Jung's Model of Psychological Growth Through Dialogue with the Unconscious, was a more suitable choice for me.This was a major sticking point for other reviewers, but I think their point works better undefined.
Just as Jungian psychology is meant to be a container to help an individual integrate the forces of the collective unconscious, attention to the unlived life of the historical dead can be a kind of container for culture. In freewheeling exchanges, they discuss Jung’s de-conceptualization of psychology, his modernist and pseudo-artistic embrasure of fantasy, his psycho-spiritual quest of giving voice to the dead—both literally and figuratively—his struggle to connect the individualistic/existential and collective/essential dimensions of the inner world, the paradoxicality of his usage of demotic, detached, “scientific” language to decry the West’s detachment from humanity’s natural state of “imminent dwelling within the cosmos”: its unreflective participation in the numinous, and Jung’s place within the intellectual streams of psychological science, art, and literature in the twentieth century.
There is a deep reverberation between the resonant implications these men are seeing The Red Book have for modern psychology .
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