The author, reviewing a book on Jung's moral psychology by the psychoanalyst Dan Merkur, concludes that Jung's idea of a divergence in aim between conscious and unconscious creates in the psyche a conflict of duties, toward the ego and its persona, on the one hand, and toward the self and its soul, on the other. An individual mind can reconcile this conflict only by ethical position-taking, which is arrived at through moral effort that fosters a growth of consciousness but is never without ambivalence and uncertainty as to the principles that have informed it. Jung's idea that the unconscious is there to compensate for any ethical position taken by the conscious mind is echoed by contemporary psychoanalytic notions of collaboration between superego and ego in producing moral stances. Merkur is praised for recognizing Jung's priority at countering Freud's position that the unconscious cannot think about the ethical conflicts that are experienced by the ego. The author, reviewing a book on Jung's moral psychology by the psychoanalyst Dan Merkur, concludes that Jung's idea of a divergence in aim between conscious and unconscious creates in the psyche a conflict of duties, toward the ego and its persona, on the one hand, and toward the self and its soul, on the other. An individual mind can reconcile this conflict only by ethical position-taking, which is arrived at through moral effort that fosters a growth of consciousness but is never without ambivalence and uncertainty as to the principles that have informed it. Jung's idea that the unconscious is there to compensate for any ethical position taken by the conscious mind is echoed by contemporary psychoanalytic notions of collaboration between superego and ego in producing moral stances. Merkur is praised for recognizing Jung's priority at countering Freud's position that the unconscious cannot think about the ethical conflicts that are experienced by the ego.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2018
توصيف ظاهري
143-146
عنوان
International Journal of Jungian Studies
شماره جلد
10/2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1940-9060
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Analytical psychology
اصطلاح موضوعی
conflict of duties
اصطلاح موضوعی
cure of souls
اصطلاح موضوعی
ethics
اصطلاح موضوعی
Freud
اصطلاح موضوعی
Jung
اصطلاح موضوعی
moral psychology
اصطلاح موضوعی
psychoanalysis
اصطلاح موضوعی
self
اصطلاح موضوعی
superego
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