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Jung and Kierkegaard identifies authenticity, suffering and self-deception as the three key themes that connect the work of Carl Jung and Søren Kierkegaard. There is, in the thinking of these pioneering psychologists of the human condition, a fundamental belief in the healing potential of a religious outlook.
List of contents
Dedication Acknowledgements
Part One 1. Introduction 2. A Holy Kind of Healing 3. Some Striking Similarities: Personal and Philosophical 4. Introducing Kierkegaard 5. Presenting Jung 6. The Wounds of the Father: A Shared Inheritance
Part Two 7. An Unconventional Christianity 8. Jung and Religion 9. The Therapeutic Value of Faith 10. Grounding Ethics in Spirit: The Medium of our Self-Realization 11. Suffering and the Pain of Personal Growth: Perrissem, Nisi Perissem 12. Authenticity: The Creation of One¿s Genuine Self
Part Three 13. "That Religious Neurotic": Kierkegaard on the Couch 14. Keeping Mum: A Powerful Silence 15. Søren¿s Spiritual Castration: A Father¿s Influence 16. To Marry or to Martyr 17. The Final Years of Søren Kierkegaard: A Story of Archetypal Compensation
Part Four 18. The Nature of a Kierkegaardian Neurosis: Jung¿s Reception of Kierkegaard 19. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Polar Opposites in the Mind of Jung 20. Summary of Discussion 21. Conclusion 22. Epilogue: Jung and Kierkegaard: A Legacy Considered 23. Bibliography
About the author
Amy Cook graduated with a degree in History from the University of Aberdeen in 2005. She then went on to study a masters in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at Essex University before completing another masters in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies. After a brief spell teaching overseas, Amy returned to the UK and began a PhD at Bangor University. She currently lives in North Wales, where she works with young carers to support and encourage them to fulfil their full potential.
Summary
Jung and Kierkegaard identifies authenticity, suffering and self-deception as the three key themes that connect the work of Carl Jung and Søren Kierkegaard. There is, in the thinking of these pioneering psychologists of the human condition, a fundamental belief in the healing potential of a religious outlook.
