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Through his clinical work and extensive engagement with major figures of the philosophical tradition, Jung developed an original and pluralistic psycho-ethical model based on the cooperation of consciousness with the unconscious mind. By drawing on direct quotations from Jung's collected works, The Red Book, and his interviews and seminars – as well as from seminal texts by Kant, Nietzsche, Aristotle and Augustine – Giovanni Colacicchi provides a philosophically grounded analysis of the ethical relevance of Jung's analytical psychology and of the concept of individuation which is at its core. The author argues that Jung transforms Kant's consciousness of duty into the duty to be conscious while also endorsing Nietzsche's project of an individual ethics beyond collective morality. Colacicchi shows that Jung is concerned, like Aristotle, with the human need to acquire a balance between reason and emotions; and that Jung puts forward, with his understanding of the shadow, a moral psychology of the Christian notion of evil. Jung's psycho-ethical paradigm is thus capable of integrating ethical theories which are often read as mutually exclusive.Psychology as Ethics will be of interest t

Author

Giovanni Colacicchi

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781000180039

Subjects

Psychology, Philosophy, Humanities