Philosophical Issues in the Psychology of C. G. Jung

Marilyn Nagy has practiced as a Jungian analyst for 24 years, and has taught at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, where she is a member of the clinical faculty. Dr. Nagy has a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and trained as an analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. To Know Only The Soul: Jung's Epistemology 1. Childhood And Youth: Taking Up The Problem Of The Father2. From Experience As Value To Experience As Knowledge3. Inner Experience As True Knowledge: The Apologetics of Subjectivism4. Epistemology As A Value Term: Plato's Theory Of Recollection As A Solution To The Problem Of Justice a. Immortality and Justice in Homeric Societyb. The Orphic Visionc. Inner Knowledge and Transcendent Order 5. Theories of Perception And Knowledge: From Descartes To Kant 6. Nineteenth-Century Kantianism a. Hermann von Helmholtz and the Skeptical Heritageb. Lange and the Phenomenal Idealistsc. Haeckel and Adickes: A Pitched Battled. Arthur Schopenhauer 7. Two Epistemological Discussions By Jung a. Esse in Anima as a Solution to the Mind-Body Dilemmab. The Lumen Naturae of Paracelsus as the Paradigm of True Knowledge Part II. Archetypes: Championing The Mind Introduction 1. Freud And The Theory Of Instinct Libido2. Toward A Genetic Theory Of Libido3. From Libido To Archetypes: Reduction To Final Cause a. A Phylogenetic Viewpointb. Fantasy, Symbol, and the Prospective Methodc. "Instinct and the Unconscious" 4. Jung's Empiricism And The Common Consent Arguement 5. Theories Of Archetypes: Plato And Schopenhauer a. Platob. Schopenhauer 6. Instincts And Archetypes 7. Late Developments Of The Archetype Theory: Synchronicity Part III. Individuation Versus Evolution: The Long War Section A. Teleological Patterns In Jung And In Aristotle1. Individuation a. Life as Purposiveb. The Self as Arbiter of Psyche 2. Aristotle's View Of Teleology As Act And Potency Section B. The Nineteenth-Century Challenge To Final Cause3. Goals In Nature: Kant, Schopenhauer, Von Hartmann4. The Struggle With Vitalism: From Stahl To Haeckel5. Neo-Vitalism: Driesch And JungA Postscript on VitalismConclusionA Personal NoteAppendix: Gustav Theodor FechnerSelected BibliographyIndex

"The topic is very significant and most important to the field of studies in Jungian thought wherein one endeavors to know C. G. Jung within the history of ideas and in the general context of twentieth-century culture. The author has taken on a much needed task in her efforts to situate Jung within a specific philosophical tradition." — Marian L. Pauson