The Soul Always Thinks (The Collected English Papers of Wolfgang Giegerich) 4

"C. G. Jung regarded the soul to be a reality in its own right which reflects itself in all manner of images and events. symbols and traditions. In this fourth volume of his Collected English Papers, Giegerich recalls the soul to the inwardness of its own home territory by bringing out the thought-character of the self-creating, self-unfolding logical life that it is. In addition to clarifying what thought means for psychology and analyzing certain misconceptions surrounding the topic of "soul and thought" a challenging thesis concerning the limitation of an imaginal, "anima-only" approach in psychology (given the essential historicity of the soul) is carefully argued, while examining at the same time such topics as "the end of meaning and the birth of man," "anima mundi and time", "the metamorphosis of the gods," and the logical steps involved in the transition from childhood to adulthood and from a psychological oneness with nature to modern alienation from nature. The book also discusses the notion of the soul's logical life and shows in action the psychological procedure of "absolute-negative interiorization" of phenomena into their soul and truth in a number of in-depth examinations of particular phenomena (e.g. Heraclitus' dictum about the soul's depth, the "leap into the solid stone," the negativity of the "stone which is not a stone"). In thorough-going critical engagements with other authors in the field, it demonstrates specific instances where psychology fails to do its job due to faulty presuppositions, above all psychology's failure to face the modern world. It emphasizes the active role of the mind in soul-making as the making of psychic reality. It addresses the questions of the future of psychology and whether progress in psychology is possible. Wolfgang Giegerich is a Jungian analyst, now living in Berlin, and the author of numerous books, among them What Is Soul? and Neurosis: The Logic of a Metaphysical Illness. Giegerich's Collected English Papers include The Neurosis of Psychology (Vol. I). Technology and the Soul (Vol. 2), Soul-Violence (Vol. 3), The Soul Always Thinks (Vol. 4), The Flight into the Unconscious (Vol. 5), and Dreaming the Myth Onwards (Vol. 6) (all Routledge)"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Sources and Abbreviations Introduction: “Thought”: Some Signposts Chapter One: The Lesson of the Christmas Tree Chapter Two: The Rescue of the World. Jung, Hegel, and the Subjective Universe Chapter Three: Effort? Yes, Effort! Chapter Four: Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? Or: Anima mundi and Time. A response to Hillman’s “Cosmology for Soul. From Universe to Cosmos” Chapter Five: The Dignity of Thought: In Defense of the Phenomenon of Philosophical Thought Chapter Six: Is the Soul ‘Deep?’—Entering and Following the Logical Movement of Heraclitus’ ‘Fragment 45’ Chapter Seven: The Leap into the Solid Stone Chapter Eight: The Future of Psychology: Its Going Under Chapter Nine: The End of Meaning and the Birth of Man. An essay about the state reached in the history of consciousness and an analysis of C.G. Jung’s psychology project 1. The self-contradiction inherent in the search for meaning 2. In-ness as the reality of the pre-modern ages 3. The end of in-ness 4. Two basic lines of reaction to “the end of in-ness” 5. Jung’s idea of the death of symbols 6. Man the unborn 7. The birth of man 8. The fate of God(s) 9. Critique of the feeling of loss and 10. The logic and genesis of C.G. Jung’s psychology in the light of the question of meaning The problem as it presented itself to Jung and its Solution or: Saturnian swallowing Sacrifice of the intellect and the exclusion of the problem of form “The unconscious”: Discovered fact or means to an end? Downsizing and privatization Privileging the raw Permanent storeroom of images? No, “just in time” production! Dissociation and the rescue of unbornness Jung’s semanticizing the problem of the “new form” Token adulthood Kronos swallows not only his children, not only childhood as such (the whole parent-child re lationship, the mode of upward looking), but also his children’s birth Archetypal psychology (James Hillman) or: Absolute swallowing Chapter Ten: The Soul as Axis of the World Chapter Eleven: The Movement of the Soul Chapter Twelve: Psychology – The Study of the Soul’s Logical Life Chapter Thirteen: The Ego-Psychological Fallacy. A note on “the birth of the meaning out of a symbol” Chapter Fourteen: Once More “The Stone Which is Not a Stone.” Further Reflections on “Not” Chapter Fifteen: “By Its Colorful Tunes the Lark Blissfully Climbs Up Into the Air.” A Few Reflections on Soul-Making as the Making of Psychic Reality Chapter Sixteen: Irrelevantification. Or: On the Death of Nature, the Construction of “the Archetype,” and the Birth of Man Chapter Seventeen: “The Unassimilable Remnant”: What is at Stake? A Dispute with Stanton Marlan Chapter Eighteen: Imaginal Psychology Gone Overboard: Michael Vannoy Adams’ ‘Imaginology.’ A Defense of the Image Against the Detraction by its Devotees Chapter Nineteen: Psychologie Larmoyante: Glen Slater, For Example. On Psychology’s Failure to Face the Modern World Chapter Twenty: Jung’s Idea of a Metamorphosis of the Gods and the History of the Soul Chapter Twenty-One: There Is Psychological Progress. Can There Be Progress of Psychology? Index