
A Jungian Understanding of Symbolic Function and Forms
The Dream Series
- 140 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The purpose of this book is to clarify the function of the symbol and its place at the juncture of psychoanalysis and other social sciences, where the singular and the collective intersect and whose laws are identical.
The debate between Freud and Jung about the symbol is well known; by examining the points of contradiction between their respective approaches, this book seeks to place them in fruitful tension, rather than categorical opposition and explore their similarities and differences. In later chapters, the author further analyses the function of the symbol in relation to the topics of myth, anthropology and dreams.
This thoughtful book will appeal to those interested and involved in analytical psychology and psychoanalysis, as well as psychiatrists and psychologists.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Freud–Jung debate on symbols
- 2 The symbolic function
- 3 Symbolic forms
- 4 The work of the letter
- Conclusion
- Index