Philosophical issues in the psychology of C.G. Jung

Paperbound; x + 321 pp., including an appendix, bibliographic references in chapter endnotes, a bibliography, and an index. Contents: Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Part I: To know only the soul: Jung's epistemology 1. Childhood and youth: Taking up the problem of the father 2. From experience as value to experience as knowledge 3. Inner experience as true knowledge: The apologetics of subjectivism 4. Epistemology as a value term: Plato's theory of recollection as a solution to the problem of justice 5. Theories of perception and knowledge: From Descartes to Kant 6. Nineteenth-century Kantianism 7. Two epistemological discussions by Jung Part II: Archetypes: Championing the mind 1. Freud and the theory of instinct libido 2. Toward a genetic theory of libido 3. From libido to archetypes: Reduction to the final cause 4. Jung's empiricism and the common consent argument 5. Theories of archetypes: Plato and Schopenhauer 6. Instincts and archetypes 7. Late developments of the archetype theory: Synchronicity Part III: Individuation versus evolution: The long war Section A: Teleological patters in Jung and in Aristotle 1. Individuation 2. Aristotle's view of teleology as act and potency Section B: The ninteenth-century challenge to final cause 3. Goals in nature: Kant, Schopenhauer, von Hartmann 4. The struggle with vitalism: From Stahl to Haeckel 5. Neo-vitalism: Driesch and Jung A postscript on vitalism Conclusion A personal note Appendix: Gustav Theodor Fechner Selected bibliography Index