Contemporary Influences of C. G. Jung's Thought

Ilona Błocian is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Philosophy in University of Wroclaw (Poland), in the department of Philosophical Anthropology. She is the author of the article "Psychoanalytical Interpretations of Myth" (2014). Andrew Kuzmicki, Ph.D., is editor of the Polish Online Journal of Analytical Psychology and a psychotherapist. He is the author of “The Symbolism of the Self in the Theory of C.G.Jung” (2008), “Psychology and Philosophy of C.G.Jung” (2013), and “Individuation - Literature - Culture” (2013).

• List of Figures and Tables List of ContributorsIntroductionIlona Błocian and Andrew Kuzmicki>1 Jung in the Academy and Beyond: The Fordham Lectures – 100 Years LaterJoseph Cambray>2 Aspects of Descartes’ and Pascal’s Diverging Psychological Standingas Regards Knowledge That Find Expression in the Differences of the Freudian and Jungian Methodological Approaches to Psychology Miriam Gomes de Freitas>3 On Problem Solving – C.G. Jung’s and M. Heidegger’s Perspectives Maria Kostyszak>4 Is a Jungian Analysis Scientific? Robert Segal>5 Collective Memory and Common Imagination – Archetypes in the Perspective of the Theory of Sign Anna Olejarczyk>6 The Idea of Culture Image Confronted with Psychoanalytic Tradition Ewa Kwiatkowska>7 Is the Jungian Concept of “Image” Still Relevant in a Modern Psychoanalytic Perspective? Alessandra De Coro>8 Jung and Social Thought: The Undiscovered SelfIlona Błocian>9 In a Secular Age: Weber, Taylor, Jung Roderick Main>10 Non-fixed Multiple Perspectives in the Japanese Psyche: Traditional Japanese Art, Dream and Myth Megumi Yama>11 Subject Drop and the Japanese Ego Norifumi Kishimoto>12 Developing Jung’s Theory of Mind in the Light of Evolutionary Psychology Andrew Kuzmicki>13 The Contributions of C.G. Jung and Eugen Bleuler to Psychiatry: Schizophrenia Then and Now Michael Escamilla>14 A Discourse on the Textual-Psychoidal Duality in the Novel “A Thorn and A Laurel” [“Cierń i laur”] by Wladyslaw Lech Terlecki Zbigniew Bitka>15 Evidence for the Effectiveness of Jungian Psychotherapy: A Review of Empirical Studies Christian Roesler>16 How Can We Objectify a Study on Analytical Psychology? Jolanta Kowal>