Carl Jung and the Evolutionary Sciences - A New Vision for Analytical Psychology

This book revaluates Carl Jung's ideas in the context of contemporary research in the evolutionary sciences.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Jung and the Condition of Modernity: Evolution, the Naturphilosophen and Evo Devo 2. Fossils, Anthropology and Hominin Brain Phylogeny 3. Analytical Psychology and the Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism 4. Evolutionary Theory and Analytical Psychology 5. Analytical Psychology and the Adaptationist Paradigm: Jung and Altered States of Consciousness 6. Anthropology and Analytical Psychology

About the author

Gary Clark is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Since 2012, he has been a member of School's Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Unit. His research focus includes the evolution of music, palaeoanthropology and evolutionary approaches to analytical psychology.

Summary

This book revaluates Carl Jung’s ideas in the context of contemporary research in the evolutionary sciences.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Clark, Clark Gary
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032624532
• ISBN: 978-1-03-262453-2
• No. of pages: 190
• Weight: 526 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Comparative Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; NATURE / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Psychotherapy, Neurosciences, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Jungian, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis