A Jungian and Evolutionary Approach to Psychology and Culture

This ground-breaking book re-positions C.G. Jung's legacy, and the field of analytical psychology, within the panorama of contemporary knowledge in neurobiology, psychology, culture and anthropology.

This ground-breaking book re-positions C.G. Jung's legacy, and the field of analytical psychology, within the panorama of contemporary knowledge in neurobiology, psychology, culture and anthropology.Within this new volume, Stefano Carta aims to provide a new, up-to-date way of understanding Jung's work, and to show the effect to which his central positions can be better understood in relation to topics such as the nature of the psyche, of the self, of the collective unconscious, and of archetypal theory. This book describes, with extensive substantiations and an original discussion, the transformation of psychological processes into cultural ones, leading to the formation of various forms of symbolic institutions.Spanning two volumes, which are also accessible as standalone books, and with international appeal and original and interdisciplinary in scope, they will be of great interest to Jungian scholars and analysts as well as students and those on Jungian-oriented training courses.

Autorentext

Stefano Carta is a psychologist and a Jungian analyst graduate at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He is Professor of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology and Ethnopsychology at the University of Cagliari, Italy, and has been Honorary Professor at the Department of Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK. He is a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology, and former President of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia Analitica (AIPA). Among his many publications, he has edited the entry in three volumes "Psychology" for the Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems by UNESCO.

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1. Structures, History and Problems within an Anthropological Perspective 2. From Affective Images to Cultures 3. Images 4. Images and Neurobiology 5. Culture and Representations 6. Stabilization 7. On Rituals: From Representations to Behaviour 8. What is Universal? A Redefinition 9. From Emotionally Raw Images to Cultural Images 10. Conclusions by Amplification Jung as a Contemporary Scientist By Silvano Tagliagambe