Jungian Books

Books by, about, and for Jungians

Grant Maxwell
(Author)

ISBN-10: 9781032049854
ISBN-13:
Routledge

cite: Maxwell, G. (2022). Integration and Difference Constructing a Mythical Dialectic. Routledge.

This groundbreaking work synthesizes concepts from thirteen crucial philosophers and psychologists, relating how the ancient problem of opposites has been opening to an integration which not only conserves differentiation but enacts it, especially through the integration of myth into the dialectic.

Weaving a fascinating narrative that ‘thinks with’ the complex encounters of theorists from Baruch Spinoza, G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William James to Alfred North Whitehead, C. G. Jung, Gilles Deleuze, and Isabelle Stengers, this book uniquely performs the convergence of continental philosophy, pragmatism, depth psychology, and constructivist ‘postmodern’ theory as a complement to the trajectory culminating in Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction.

This is an important book for professionals and academics working across the humanities and social sciences, particularly for continental theorists and depth psychologists interested in the construction of a novel epoch after the modern.

Table of Contents
Introduction: Turning Deconstruction on Its Head
1. The Final Writing of an Epoch: Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
2. Freedom of Mind: Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics
3. Well-Founded Fictions: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Monadology 
4. The Life of the Whole: G.W.F. Hegel’s On Scientific Cognition 
5. God-Positing Potencies: F.W.J. Schelling’s Berlin Lectures 
6. Something Higher Than Any Reconciliation: Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy 
7. An Integrated Affair: William James’ Pragmatism 
8. A True Work of Integration: Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution 
9. The Process of Integration: Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality 
10. A Widening of Consciousness Through Integration: C.G. Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis 
11. Integrating Myth Into the Dialectic: Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition 
12. Disintegrated Integration: James Hillman’s Re-Visioning Psychology 
13. The Question of Integration: Concluding with Isabelle Stengers
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