Abstract

VIEIRA, André Guirland. The function of history and culture in C. G. Jung’s work. Aletheia [online]. 2006, n.23, pp. 89-100. ISSN 1413-0394.

Throughout the present work, we have studied the function of the concepts of history and culture in the C. G. Jung’s theory. The issue of historical and cultural dimension of the psychological subject appears in a non-systematic fashion in Jungian’s thought. It implies a formulation wherein the subject is historically constituted, and therefore moulded through a dialectical relation with a symbolic universe marked by historic and cultural characteristics. The uniqueness of such approach uncovers issues that are still obscure and over which Jung did not work. The article also demonstrates how it is possible, from that point of view, to criticize culture in the Jungian way.

Keywords : Analytical Psychology; C. G. Jung; History; Culture; Interpretation.

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