This ground-breaking book re-positions C.G. Jung’s legacy, and the field of analytical psychology, within the panorama of contemporary knowledge in neurobiology, psychology, culture and anthropology.
Within this new volume, Stefano Carta aims to provide a new, up-to-date way of understanding Jung’s work and to show the effect his central positions can be understood much better in relation to topics such as the nature of the psyche, of the self, of the collective unconscious, and of archetypal theory. This book describes, with extensive substantiations and an original discussion, the transformation of psychological processes into cultural ones, leading to the formation of various forms of symbolic institutions.
With international appeal and original and interdisciplinary in scope, this will be of great interest to Jungian scholars and analysts, as well as students and those on Jungian-oriented training courses.
Table of Contents
1. Structures, History and Problems within an Anthropological Perspective 2. From Affective Images to Cultures 3. Images 4. Images and Neurobiology 5. Culture and Representations 6. Stabilization 7. On Rituals: From Representations to Behaviour 8. What is Universal? A Redefinition 9. From Emotionally Raw Images to Cultural Images 10. Conclusions by Amplification Jung as a Contemporary Scientist By Silvano Tagliagambe