Jungian Books

Books by, about, and for Jungians

Greg Mogenson (Author)

ISBN-10: 1738860612
ISBN-13: 978-1738860616
Dusk owl Books,
249 pages
Pbk
$47.09

cite: Mogenson, G. (2024). Notional Practice: The Speculative Turn in Analytical Psychology. Dusk owl Books.

Description

This book brings together in one place a selection of its author’s many contributions to psychology as the discipline of interiority. Beginning with an “Introductory Chronicle,” the author provides a lively account of his long collaboration with Wolfgang Giegerich as editor of the latter’s Collected English Papers. Included in this chronicle are accounts of the negations his own understanding of Jungian psychology had to go through during this period, as well as insights into the problem of the transference as this plays out within schools of thought that are rooted in the concepts and insights of master representatives dating back to Freud and Jung. Stories are told of the author’s occasionally hair-raising adventures as a lecturer and teacher. Crash courses are offered that highlight what is special about PDI. And dreams are shared that provide a view from within of what “the soul” as psychology goes through in the course of its theoretical pursuits. In the essays that follow the emphasis is upon analytical psychology as a notional practice. Jungian psychology, as Jung courageously insisted, is a psychology with soul. Mirrored in this notion, all manner of human situations may be grasped in their inwardness and depth. Further to this, the essays have also in common the project of elucidating the speculative character of psychology’s insights. Although Jung took pleasure in having been described as “an empiricist first and last,” his being informed by a concept of the soul that overreaches the subject/object distinction outclassed this description. Time and again (and herein lies its soulfulness), Jungian psychology meets itself in its subject matters, even as Jung with reference to the personal individuation process spoke of our meeting ourselves in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

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