Depth psychology through the lens of Classical Yoga: a reconsideration of Jung’s ontic reality

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Leanne Whitney
Keyword(s):  
Depth Psychology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Psychological Concepts

ABSTRACTJung, a self-proclaimed empiricist, resisted all metaphysical claims. Nevertheless his depth psychology hypothesized an unconscious agent, which we can never know directly. As a means of healing he implores us to loosen our resistance to the unconscious, for when ego-consciousness develops and maintains a relationship to the unconscious, human beings make the Creator conscious of His creation. Although not explicit in his theories, both the ego and the unconscious are more than psychological concepts for Jung; they are ontically real. Looking at Jung through the lens of Classical Yoga this paper invites a reconsideration of the Jungian ontic reality.

Body Memory and the Unconscious

2018 ◽  
pp. 456-470
Author(s):  
Thomas Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Depth Psychology ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Spatial Mode ◽  
Life Space ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Body Memory ◽  
Lived Space ◽  
Horizontal Dimension

In traditional psychoanalysis the unconscious was conceived as a separate intra-psychic reality, hidden ‘below consciousness’ and only accessible to a ‘depth psychology’ based on metapsychological premises and concepts. In contrast to this vertical conception, this chapter presents a phenomenological approach to the unconscious as a horizontal dimension of the lived body, lived space, and intercorporeality. This approach is based (a) on a phenomenology of body memory, defined as the totality of implicit dispositions of perception and behaviour mediated by the body and sedimented in the course of earlier experiences. It is also based on (b) a phenomenology of the life space as a spatial mode of existence which is centred in the lived body and in which unconscious conflicts are played out as field forces.

scholarly journals Baśń w biblioterapii integralnej

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-172
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Miernik
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Effect ◽  
Depth Psychology ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Rational Side ◽  
Stimulation Of

This text’s main objective is to introduce the assumptions of the Jungian depth psychology to the bibliotherapeutic process. Bibliotherapy as an interdisciplinary method using psychology and literary studies enriched with the theory of integral psychology formulates a new theoretical perspective and constitutes a proposition of holistic view of bibliotherapy. The extension of the theoretical basis of bibliotherapy will help to augment the therapeutic effect, activate the unconscious (the sphere neglected in school education), and strengthen psyche. Integral bibliotherapy shall create conditions to expand the dialogue between the rational side and unconscious one, and it will contribute to a positive stimulation of the integration processes. Providing archetypal patterns reflecting the rules of life in culture, and drawing attention to the regulatory role of literary works, will enrich both the intellectual and spiritual side of the development of the participant of the bibliotherapeutic process. Archetypal content present in literary texts studied by the participant according to the bibliotherapeutic procedure will achieve an integral orientation focused on the humanistic dimension of existence.

(Un)consciousness? Music in the Daoist context of nonbeing

2019 ◽  
pp. 306-323
Author(s):  
Lanlan Kuang
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Song Dynasty ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Musical Time ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Chinese Aesthetics ◽  
Integral Element ◽  
Psychological Concepts

This chapter explores the interpretation of music as a philosophical concept within the context of Chinese aesthetics. A particular focus is the Daoist connection of music with psychological concepts such as consciousness, the experience of time, and the emergence of memory in space and time. The human body, regarded as both physical and spiritual, is an integral element of Daoism, which offers a route to understanding consciousness as coterminous with being and nonbeing, and to linking the latter to music. In the Daoist tradition nonbeing, in musical time, brings forth dynamic and temporal connections between the conscious and the unconscious through memory. The chapter uses the programmatic title and literary preface of Seagulls and Forgetting Schemes, a Song dynasty qin piece, as an exemplar of the Daoist aesthetic of (un)consciousness, approached as both an ideal comprising a world or state of enlightened detachment and an aesthetic activity for cultivating such a world or state.

scholarly journals ¿Qué hubiera sido de Edipo sin Aristóteles y sin Freud?

2017 ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Sebastián Gámez Millán
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Curse Of Knowledge ◽  
Unconscious Desire ◽  
Sobre Todo ◽  
Plausible Argumentation

Edipo rey, de Sófocles, no se hubiera convertido en una tragedia “modélica” si no hubiera gozado de una amplia y reconocida recepción, sobre todo, por parte dos de sus intérpretes más decisivos e influyentes: Aristóteles y Freud. En este artículo analizamos los principales argumentos que ofrece Aristóteles en la Poética: a) la forma más apropiada de reconocimiento; b) el uso del coro; c) la argumentación verosímil; d) la concentración necesaria. Freud descubre en esta tragedia una estructura antropológica del deseo inconsciente de los seres humanos. Por último, expondremos los argumentos filosóficos de Kaufmann: a) la inseguridad radical del ser humano; b) la ceguera; c) la maldición del conocimiento; d) la inevitabilidad de la tragedia; d) el cuestionamiento de la justicia.Oedipus king, by Sophocles, would not have become a “model” tragedy if he had not enjoyed a wide and recognised reception, especially by two of his most decisive and influential interpreters: Aristotle and Freud. In this article we analyze the main arguments that Aristotle offers in the Poetics: a) the most appropriate form of recognition; b) the use of the choir; c) the plausible argumentation; d) the necessary concentration. Freud discovers in this tragedy an anthropological structure of the unconscious desire of the human beings. Finally, we will expose the philosophical arguments of Kaufmann: a) the radical insecurity of the human being; b) blindness; d) the curse of knowledge; d)the inevitability of the tragedy; e) the questioning of justice.

scholarly journals Interacting Narratives:

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrell Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Depth Psychology ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Conscious Intention ◽  
Unconscious Mind

In narrative approaches to teachers’ professional knowledge, identity (one’s story to live by) is generally understood to be constructed and reconstructed through conscious intention (Chosen Narratives) and through contextual influences (Life Narratives).  It is possible and necessary to go further, to describe a third fundamental influence. Using the concept of Self Narratives allows teachers and teacher educators to acknowledge and work with the inevitable and powerful unconscious dynamics that influence their teaching practice and the ongoing construction and reconstruction of their professional knowledge. The concept of Self Narratives integrates the theories and practices of depth psychology, particularly Jungian analytical psychology, into narrative approaches to teachers’ professional knowledge. Recognizing the unconscious mind as profoundly influential is a position overlooked by more familiar schools of educational psychology, and a Jungian perspective considers the unconscious mind as ultimately helpful and holistic, a position that varies from other schools of depth psychology.

How lost and accomplished revolutions shaped psychology: Early Critical Theory (Frankfurt School), Wilhelm Reich, and Vygotsky

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-222
Author(s):  
Gordana Jovanović
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Wilhelm Reich

On the occasion of recent centenaries of revolutions in Europe (1917, 1918–19), this article examines, within a general theme of different forms of relationships between revolution and psychology, two types of theories. First, this paper analyses Western theories that, while developing under conditions of a missed or lost revolution in Germany, argued for radical social change by referring to Marxism and psychoanalysis as necessary theoretical tools (Frankfurt School and Wilhelm Reich). Second, this paper analyses the influence of the October Revolution on the development of the psychological theory of Lev Vygotsky in the Soviet Union. In sum, psychology under the conditions of missed or lost revolution was conceptualized as a psychology of the unconscious, of the repression of human needs. Psychology under the conditions of accomplished revolution was conceptualized as a historical social psychology of self-mastery of human beings as social beings.

Nietzsche y los límites del lenguaje: la fuerza del instinto

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis E. De Santiago Guervós
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Origin Of Language ◽  
Early View ◽  
Early Account ◽  
Philosophical Project ◽  
Made In

RESUMENLa concepción del joven Nietzsche sobre el lenguaje es esencial para comprender la evolución de su proyecto filosófico. Hasta hace muy poco se ha prestado poca atención a su forma de entender el lenguaje. Este trabajo explica el "giro lingüístico" de su filosofía y su posición crítica de las pretensiónes filosóficas tradicionales sobre la verdad y el conocimiento, especialmente sus indagaciones sobre el origen del lenguaje. En sus primeras consideraciones juega un papel muy importante lo inconsciente y el instinto como el núcleo más íntimo de un ser. Es decir, las formas del lenguaje están preparadas ya en la organización inconsciente del ser humano.ABSTRACTThe Nietzsche's early view on language is essential for understanding the evolution of his philosophical project. Until quite recently little attention has been gien to his conception of language. This paper explains the significant "linguistic turn" of his philosophy und his critique position of traditional philosophical pretensions of truth and knowledge, especially his explorations into the origin of language. In his early account of language plays a part very important the unconscious and the instinct as the innermost kernel of a being. That is, the forms of langage lie as ready made in the unconcius organization of human beings.

Research on the psychological root and transmission mechanism of rumours in major epidemics based on the perspective of psychoanalysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-181
Author(s):  
Liu Zixiao ◽  
Pan Dandan ◽  
Ju Fei
Keyword(s):  
Depth Psychology ◽  
Projective Identification ◽  
Transmission Mechanism ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Audiovisual Media ◽  
Transmission Mechanisms ◽  
Psychoanalytic Perspective ◽  
A Current

Since the Covid-19 epidemic, many rumours have been generated under the main theme of a whole people fighting the epidemic together. From the standpoint of depth psychology, a psychoanalytic perspective has its own advantages and unique research value on the psychological roots of rumours in major epidemics and their mechanisms of transmission, which this article discusses, along with the anxiety and fear created by the life instinct, the elements of attack and projection under the death instinct, and conjectures how the role of Lacan’s postulation that the unconscious is constituted like language all play a role as main causes of a current epidemic of rumours. The transmission mechanisms of epidemic rumours are the following: the spreading of panic caused by the interruption of emotional connection, aggressive spreading of rumours caused by hostility in processes of identification, and problems in mechanisms of projective identification, and the combined effect of audiovisual media. Furthermore, the authors make specific suggestions on how to deal with rumours in major epidemics, so as to improve understanding and response to these in cases of major epidemics.

A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Panic Disorder in a Woman With a History of Incest: A Case Study

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene H. Oestrich
Keyword(s):  
Panic Attacks ◽  
Behavioral Approach ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Unconscious Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Treatment Procedures

This case study is of particular interest because it highlights phenomena that behavior therapists have not described until recently. Such phenomena are regarded as important to an understanding and appreciation of the holistic and complex functioning of human beings. Michael Mahoney and other cognitive therapists (Eelen & Fontaine, 1986, Mahoney, 1980, Mahoney, 1986) have brought our attention to the unconscious processes, psychological self-focus, dynamic conflicts and childhood experiences that may be essential issues in therapy. These personal processes may be very important in coping with anxiety, especially anxiety that derives from early stages of development. The description of this case is an attempt to show how cognitive-behavioral techniques can lead to disclosure in psychotherapy and help a client who suffers from panic attacks. The case study describes how a 47-year-old, married woman, Laura, a victim of incest in early childhood, was helped through cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. The intense experiences of encroachment and invasion involved in incest are described, together with a demonstration of how cognitive methods are useful in uncovering tacit or unconscious processes. Methods used are in essence similar to well- known treatment procedures with clients suffering from panic attacks (Hawton, Salkovskis, Kirk, & Clark, 1989). In addition, the highly damaging phenomenon of incest in this case involves obstacles of resistance and brings us into deeper levels of interpretation and understanding.

Yuasa Yasuo’s Philosophy of Self-Cultivation

2016 ◽  
pp. 574-590
Author(s):  
Shigenori Nagatomo
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Body Scheme ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Motor Circuit ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Sensory Motor ◽  
Transformative Process ◽  
Philosophy Of Self ◽  
Methodological Reflection

This chapter articulates Yuasa’s thought on how human beings can transform the everyday standpoint of existence into an extraordinary standpoint by engaging in the practice of self-cultivation or a move from disjunctive dualism to correlative dualism. To explain this, he devises his own body scheme in terms of four information circuits: (1) the external-sensory-motor circuit, (2) the circuit of coenesthesis comprised of kinesthesis and somesthesis, (3) the emotion-instinct circuit, and (4) the circuit of the unconscious quasi-body. In explaining the transformative process of deepening awareness, which one gains by moving from the first circuit to the fourth circuit, Yuasa also provides a methodological reflection on how the philosophy of self-cultivation deems that practice is more important than theory. By making the perspectival shift to the extraordinary standpoint, he concludes that human beings are “beings-in-nature” in contrast to the Western philosophical perspective of “beings-outside-of-nature.”

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