Carl Jung and the Evolutionary Sciences

This book revaluates Carl Jung's ideas in the context of contemporary research in the evolutionary sciences.

Autorentext

Gary Clark is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Since 2012, he has been a member of School's Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Unit. His research focus includes the evolution of music, palaeoanthropology and evolutionary approaches to analytical psychology.

Klappentext

This book revaluates Carl Jung's ideas in the context of contemporary research in the evolutionary sciences.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Jung and the Condition of Modernity: Evolution, the Naturphilosophen and Evo Devo 2. Fossils, Anthropology and Hominin Brain Phylogeny 3. Analytical Psychology and the Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism 4. Evolutionary Theory and Analytical Psychology 5. Analytical Psychology and the Adaptationist Paradigm: Jung and Altered States of Consciousness 6. Anthropology and Analytical Psychology