The self in analysis |
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Authors: | Polly Young-Eisendrath |
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Affiliation: | Burlington, VT |
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Abstract: | This paper develops a theoretical and clinical approach to the self which is non-essentialist and post-modem. Briefly, it offers a framework for theorizing Self based on hermeneutics and psychological constructivism. It then develops a critique of the essentialist Jungian theory of Self in which the Self is frequently described as a human subject with views, intentions and desires of its own. With this is background, a post-modern Jungian framework for Self is advanced, with a brief clinical account of the self in analysis. |
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Keywords: | Self individuation ego complex archetype post-modernism biological realism |
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