Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, and Jung, Volume 1: The Development of the Personality

by Bishop; Paul

• ISBN13: 9781583918081
• ISBN10: 1583918086
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135447878
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-22
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, and Jung, volume 1, The Development of the Personality investigates the extent to which analytical psychology draws on concepts found in German classical aesthetics. It aims to place analytical psychology in the German-speaking tradition of Goethe and Schiller, with which Jung was well acquainted.

Author Biography

Paul Bishop is Professor of German at the University of Glasgow

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Biographical and intellectual affinities between Goethe and Jung	p. 12
(Great) Grandfather Goethe?	p. 13
Leonardo and the archetypal parents	p. 15
Biographical affinities	p. 19
Rejuvenation, rebirth... or Rome?	p. 34
Jung's early reception of Goethe and Faust, 1880-1916	p. 42
Methodological matters	p. 47
Transformations and Symbols of the Libido	p. 54
'The Mothers! the Mothers!'	p. 63
'On Psychological Understanding'	p. 70
'La Structure de l'inconscient'	p. 77
Schiller and the problem of typology	p. 81
The Goethe-Schiller correspondence	p. 82
Wagner and Nietzsche, Freud and Jung	p. 91
Jung's reception of Schiller	p. 92
Context of Schiller's Aesthetic Letters and Jung's Psychological Types	p. 95
Introversion and extraversion	p. 102
Imagination	p. 110
The superior and the inferior functions	p. 116
Schiller and the problem of beauty	p. 126
Beauty	p. 127
The drives	p. 130
The symbol	p. 131
Aestheticism and aesthetism	p. 139
The tripartite schemes in the Aesthetic Letters	p. 143
Semblance (Schein)	p. 146
Excursus: On Naive and Sentimental Poetry	p. 149
Conclusion: the development of the personality	p. 157
Individuation	p. 161
Notes	p. 168
Select bibliography of works cited in volume 1	p. 210
Index	p. 219
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