Psychological and Philosophical Studies of Jungs Teleology - The Future-Orientation of Mind

This important new volume addresses an underappreciated dimension of Jung's work, his concept of the teleology, or "future-orientation", of psychic reality.

List of contents

Introduction: Jung’s Teleology: Its Historical Origins and Place in His Theory 1. Coming into Being: Telos in Jung and Bion 2. On Truth, Reasonable Certainty, and God: Conviction as Revelatory Process in Peirce and Jung 3. Jung’s Call to Eros: a Personal Journey 4. The Ravenous Hydra and the Great Tree of Peace: The Teleology of Indigenous and European Civilizations 5. Archetype of the Machine 6. The Dance of Limit and Possibility

About the author

Garth Amundson is a clinical psychologist in practice in Chicago, Illinois, USA. His past publications include a study of the application of Jungian theory to adolescent psychotic states and the concordance of dimensions of American philosophical pragmatism with Jung’s ideas. This is his first edited volume.

Summary

This important new volume addresses an underappreciated dimension of Jung’s work, his concept of the teleology, or “future-orientation”, of psychic reality.

Product details

• Authors: Garth Amundson
• Assisted by: Garth Amundson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2024
• EAN: 9781032536248
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253624-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Philosophy of Mind, Psychotherapy, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Jungian, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis