Focusing on the phenomenon of dreams, this book explores the psychological approach to understanding them rather than offering a general theory. It delves into how we should perceive and interpret dreams to gain deeper insights into their significance and impact on our psyche. Through this lens, it aims to enhance the reader's comprehension of the dream experience in a meaningful way.
C. G. Jung’s psychology was based on an authentic notion of soul, but this notion was only intuitive, implicit, not conceptually worked out. His followers forfeit his heritage, often turning psychology either into pop psychology or into a scientific, clinical enterprise. It is the merit of James Hillman’s archetypal psychology to have brought back the question of soul to psychology. But as imaginal psychology it cannot truly overcome psychology’s positivistic, personalistic bias that it set out to overcome. Its «Gods» can be shown to be virtual-reality type gods because it avoids the question of Truth. Through what logically is the movement of an «absolute-negative interiorization», alchemically a «fermenting corruption», and mythologically a Dionysian dismemberment, one has to go beyond the imaginal to a notion of soul as logical life, logical movement. Only then can psychology be freed from its positivism and cease being a subdivision of anthropology, and can the notion of soul be logically released from its attachment to the notion of the human being.
Agreeing with Jung that the soul concept is indispensable for a truly psychological psychology, Wolfgang Giegerich supplements and re-orients the Jungian approach to both this concept and the phenomenology of the soul by means of a whole series of nuanced discussions that are as rigorous as they are thoroughgoing.
From the Nuclear Bomb to the World Wide Web, Volume 2
Focusing on technological civilization, this second volume of Wolfgang Giegerich's Collected English Papers delves into its pervasive influence on contemporary existence. The author explores the implications of technology on human life, emphasizing its all-encompassing nature and the philosophical questions it raises. Through critical analysis, Giegerich invites readers to reflect on the relationship between technology and individual experience, making it a significant contribution to understanding modernity's challenges.
The fourth volume of the Collected English Papers delves into the concept of the self as a dynamic entity, emphasizing its self-creating and self-unfolding nature. Giegerich explores the idea of the soul reconnecting with its intrinsic essence, highlighting the importance of inwardness and personal territory in understanding one's logical existence. This work invites readers to reflect on the deeper philosophical implications of selfhood and the continuous process of becoming.
C. G. Jung on Christianity and on Hegel, Volume 6
The essays provide a radical critique of Jung's psychological theories, offering profound insights into his personal beliefs and the motivations behind his work. They explore the intersections of psychology and spirituality, revealing the complexities of Jung's thought and its implications for understanding human experience.
An Analysis of C. G. Jungʼs Psychology Project, Volume 5
Volume 5 of Giegerich's Collected English Papers engages in an introspective examination of analytical psychology, offering an immanent critique that reflects on its own principles and practices. This volume invites readers to explore the deeper implications and nuances of psychological theories, encouraging a critical dialogue within the field.
Exploring the complex relationship between the soul and violence, this volume reveals that the soul actively engages in and manifests through violent actions rather than being a passive entity. Wolfgang Giegerich delves into the dynamics of how the soul not only suffers from violence but also generates itself through such deeds, offering a thought-provoking perspective on the interplay between inner experience and external expression.
What is dialectical thinking and why do we need it in psychology? How are "moments of truth" to be psychologically discerned and differentiated? How does the recognition of the historicity of archetypal and mythological materials relate to their interpretation? In a seminar held in the El Capitan Canyon near Santa Barbara, California, in June of 2004, the renowned Jungian analyst Wolfgang Giegerich, along with conversation partners, David L. Miller and Greg Mogenson, tackled these important questions while at the same time thinking Jungian psychology forward in a radically new way. Conceived to meet "the call for more" that followed the publication of Giegerich’s landmark book, The Soul’s Logical Life , this volume also serves as the most accessible introduction to Giegerich’s approach to psychology for the first-time reader of his work. A valuable resource for students of fairy tale, myth, and depth psychology, this volume includes a complete and up-to-date bibliography of Giegerich’s writings in all languages.
First published 2005 by Spring Journal Books--Verso.