The Neurosis of Psychology. Primary Papers Towards a Critical Psychology. Collected English Papers, Vol. 1.

A very good copy. - Psychology, in the view of C. G. Jung, is an inescapably subjective enterprise, its concepts and theories, practices and traditions being themselves an expression of the psyche they were developed to explain. Recognizing this, the discipline must be a critical one. Reflexively turning upon itself, its aim must be that of making the subjective factor conscious, for in this alone (and not in the attainment of any kind of "objective" knowledge) resides the authority of psychology's discourse. The furthering of psychology, it follows, depends upon the critical efforts of its most seminal contributors. It requires thinkers for whom the notion of soul has served both as vital inspiration and binding commitment. With its publication of the Collected English Papers of Wolfgang Giegerich, Spring Journal Books makes available to the psychological reader the work of one of archetypal psychology's most brilliant theorists. A practicing Jungian analyst and a long-time contributor to the field, Giegerich is renowned for his dedication to the substance of Jungian thought and for his unparalleled ability to think it through with both rigor and speculative strength. - This first volume takes its title from Giegerich's ground-breaking paper, "On the Neurosis of Psychology, or The Third of the Two." The "third" referred psychology itself as the theory in which the two, patient and analyst, are contained as they engage with one another in the analytic process. By applying to psychology itself the ideas that it draws upon when thinking about the patient, Giegerich establishes the basis for a psychology that defines itself as the discipline of inferiority. Topics include Neumann's history of consciousness, Jung's thought of the self, the Question of a Jungian identity, projection, the origin of psychology, and more. - Contents: Ontology vs. Phylogeny? A Fundamental Critique of Erich Neumann's Analytical Psychology -- On the Neurosis of Psychology or The Third of the Two -- The Leap After the Throw: On 'Catching up With' Projections and on the Origin Psychology -- No Alibi! Comments on "The Autonomous Psyche. A Communication to Goodheart from the Bi-Personal Field of Paul Kugler and James Hillman" -- The Present as Dimension of the Soul: 'Actual Conflict' and Archetypal Psychology -- The Provenance of C. G. Jung's Psychological Findings -- Jungian Psychology: A Baseless Enterprise. Reflections on Our Identity as Jungians -- Jung's Thought of the Self in the Light of Its Underlying Experiences -- The Question of Jung's 'Anti-Semitism': Postscript to Cocks -- Hospitality Toward the Gods in an Ungodly Age: Philemon - Faust - Jung -- Rupture, or: Psychology and Religion -- Deliverance from the Stream of Events: Okeanos and the Circulation of the Blood -- The Lesson of the Mask. ISBN 9781882670420