PREMIUM-Episode 81: Jung on the Psyche and Dreams

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

• Episode: PREMIUM-Episode 81: Jung on the Psyche and Dreams
• Website: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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• Duration: 00:31:21
• Published: 2013-08-29 21:19

On Carl Jung's "Approaching the Unconscious" from Man and His Symbols, written in 1961.

What's the structure of the mind? Jung followed Freud in positing an unconscious distinct from the conscious ego, but Jung's picture has the unconscious much more stuffed full of all sorts of stuff from who knows where, including instincts (the archetypes) that tend to give rise to behavior and dream imagery that we'd have to call religious. We neglect this part of ourselves at our psychological peril!

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