There is something about Jungian psychology that distinguishes it from all other psychologies. Its uniqueness has succinctly been put into words by Karl KERÉNYI: “JUNG wrote me … citing an alchemist, ‘maior autem animae pars extra corpus est’ and he really meant it. He stands out as the only one—at least I have not found a second one among the not confessionally bound psychologists—, who among his colleagues firmly believed in the existence of the soul.”
In this seminar we will explore how this shift to and insistence on “soul” is to be understood, in particular
• what “soul” means in contradistinction to “psyche”
• the reasons for this shift and why it is indispensable for psychology’s becoming true to its own name, “the logos of the soul”
• and what its implications are for psychological theory and the consequences for one’s psychological procedere.