Essays on “The Soul’s Logical Life” in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich: Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority

Essays on The Souls Logical Life in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich explores psychology as the discipline of interiority, focusing on the soul's inner logic and its manifestation in modern phenomena. The book aims to reveal the dialectical inner workings and speculative logic of the modern soul, providing insights for clinical psychologists, Jungian analysts, and academics.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 236 pages
Publication date: 22 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The second collection of essays dedicated to the study and application of psychology as the discipline of interiority, a new 'wave within analytical psychology that pushes off from the work of C. G. Jung and James Hillman, is titled Essays on The Souls Logical Life in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich: Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority. Reflecting upon the notion of psychology developed by German psychoanalyst Wolfgang Giegerich, whose Hegelian turn sheds light on the notion of soul, or the objective psyche, and its inner logic and 'thought, forms a radical new basis from which to ground a modern psychology with soul. The book explores the theme of the souls logical life as it displays itself in various modern phenomena, from overwhelming anxiety, cryptocurrency, the dreams of Japanese college students, and contemporary psychoanalysis, to myth, music, social movements, and the question and relevance of truth in psychology and consciousness. The authors, comprising clinical psychologists and teachers, Jungian analysts, and international scholars, aim to reveal and convey the dialectical inner workings and speculative logic of the modern soul.

Essays on The Souls Logical Life in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich: Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority will be essential reading for depth and clinical psychologists, Jungian psychoanalysts, and academics and students of post-Jungian studies, and for all those interested in what it means to think in the highly sophisticated and technological world of the twenty-first century.

Weight: 384g
Dimension: 156 x 235 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032463247