Jung: Scholar

The whole edifice, put on trial

A course on the thought of Carl Jung.

Course outline

1. Science or Beautiful Supposition? — The methodological trial: is the collective unconscious an empirical hypothesis or an unfalsifiable metaphysics? my defense rests on heuristic and explanatory value rather than strict proof; the…
2. The Break With Freud, Re-Judged — The founding controversy re-judged: Jung reconceived Freud's libido as general psychic energy rather than sexual drive. Freud charged that this drained the disturbing sexual truth from psychoanalysis…
3. The Ledger — The honest verdict of a century: what survived (introversion/extraversion as a robust trait dimension; the feeling-toned complex; the developmental view of the second half of life; the influence on…

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