Essays on “The Soul’s Logical Life” in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich

Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority

Jennifer M Sandoval, Colleen EL-Bejjani, Pamela J Power, Jennifer M Sandoval, Colleen EL-Bejjani, Pamela J Power

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032463254
• eBook ISBN: 9781003825494
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Jungian Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Essays on "The Soul's Logical Life" in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich: Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority is the second collection of essays dedicated to the study and application of psychology as the discipline of interiority–a new 'wave' within analytical psychology which pushes off from the work of C. G. Jung and James Hillman.

Reflecting upon the notion of psychology developed by German psychoanalyst Wolfgang Giegerich, whose Hegelian turn sheds light on the notion of soul, or the objective psyche, and its inner logic and 'thought', forms a radical new basis from which to ground a modern psychology with soul. The book explores the theme of "the soul's logical life" as it displays itself in various modern phenomena, from overwhelming anxiety, cryptocurrency, the dreams of Japanese college students, and contemporary psychoanalysis, to myth, music, social movements, and the question and relevance of truth in psychology and consciousness. The authors, comprising clinical psychologists, teachers, Jungian analysts, and international scholars, aim to reveal and convey the dialectical inner workings and speculative logic of the modern soul.

Essays on "The Soul's Logical Life" in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich: Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority will be essential reading for depth and clinical psychologists, Jungian psychoanalysts, and academics and students of post-Jungian studies, and for all those interested in what it means to think in the highly sophisticated and technological world of the twenty-first century.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Sources and Abbreviations
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Soul-Making IS Psychology-Making: Wolfgang Giegerich’s Essential Insight
• Chapter 2 The Uroboric Logic of Anxiety: ‘Not Out, But Through’
• Chapter 3 Discerning the Dialectic between Form and Content
• Chapter 4 Returning to the Wilderness: Jung, Giegerich and the Infinite Task of Interiority
• Chapter 5 Mandamin “Food of Wonder”
• Chapter 6 The Difficulty of Encountering One’s Own Other in a Clinical Case of a Young Adult in Japan
• Chapter 7 You Are Here (Now): Psyche’s Logic or Sense of Soul in Jung, Hillman, and Giegerich
• Chapter 8 Vicarius I-Statement: From Substance to Subject
• Chapter 9 Consciousness, Reflexivity and Evolution
• Chapter 10 A Temporal Dance with the Psychological Difference: Lessons from Lesson of the Mask
• Chapter 11 Deconstruction and the Modern Self
• Chapter 12 “It’s Not Art!”: Interiorizing Jung’s “Confrontation with the Unconscious”
• Chapter 13 Bitcoin, Utopia & Soul
• Chapter 14 How Does Music Think?
• Chapter 15 Churchill’s Shroud: Archetypal Forces in the Rise and Fall of the Great White Male
• Chapter 16 The “Great Hunt”: Psychology and the Question of Truth
• Index