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Author Evers-Fahey, Karen

Title Towards a Jungian Theory of the Ego
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Series Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies
Research in analytical psychology and Jungian studies series.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The ego in Jung's works; Reasons for lack of clarity; Resolution of this problem; The energic paradigm and the symbolic paradigm; Historical and conceptual perspectives; The historical perspective; Conceptual perspective; Ego psychology: an overview; Ego psychology: a Jungian overview; Towards a Jungian theory of the ego; Comments on organization and scope of this work; A note on terminology; 2 The energic paradigm and the symbolic paradigm; The energic paradigm; Basis in 19th century science
Science versus philosophyCharacteristics of the energic paradigm; Experimental theorists; Medical and psychoanalytic theorists; The symbolic paradigm; Jung's influences; Comparing the two paradigms in practice; 3 1896-1912: historical development; Beginnings; The Zofingia years; Lecture 1: 'The Border Zones of Exact Science' (November 1896); Lecture 2: 'Some Thoughts on Psychology'; Lecture 4: 'Thoughts on the Nature and Value of Speculative Inquiry'; Lecture 5: 'Thoughts on the Interpretation of Christianity, With Reference to the Theory of Albrecht Ritschl'; Summary of main points
On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena (1902)Hélène Preiswerk and the séances; The séances; Jung's developing ego concept; Critique of Jung's ego concept in occult phenomena; Burghölzli and the association experiment (1902-1910); The complex; Ego-consciousness and defensive actions in the psyche; Collaboration with Freud (1906-1912); 'Psychoanalysis and Association Experiments' (1906); 'The Psychology of Dementia Praecox' (1907); 'The Theory of Psychoanalysis' (lectures delivered at Fordham University, 1912); Clinical implications; Ego-consciousness; Ego-complex
Autonomous complex4 1912-1945: outer research and inner transformation; Libido and the energic versus the symbolic paradigm; Symbols of Transformation (CW 5); Libido theory; Psychological Types (CW 6); The two libido tendencies; The ego; The development of the ego; The individual; Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (CW 7); 'On the Psychology of the Unconscious' (1943); 'The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious' (1935); Key ego concepts of this period; Ego development; Structural concept; Adaptation concept; A defense concept; A Jungian theory of ego defense
Defense against conscious perceptionDefense against feeling (the unconscious standpoint); Defense against integration; The mechanisms of defense versus the mechanisms of individuation; 5 1945-1961: later works; Biographical background; 'A Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower ' (1929); Developments in the role of consciousness and ego; Alchemical studies (1938-1954) and Aion (1951); Mysterium Coniunctionis (1955-1956); The ego quaternity; Implications for clinical practice; Ego strength; Access to unconscious standpoint; The reactive ego standpoint
Notes The ego, individuation, and a way forward
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