Soul-Violence Soul-Violence
    • CHF 37.00

Beschreibung des Verlags

"All steps forward in the improvement of the human psyche have been paid for by blood." Further to this statement from C. G. Jung, Wolfgang Giegerich’s third volume of Collected English Papers shows that the soul is not merely the innocent recipient or victim of violence: it also produces itself through violent deeds and expresses itself through violent acts. Beginning in primordial times with the ritual spilling of blood in animal and human sacrifice, a light was kindled within the darkness of what would otherwise have been mere biological existence, the light of consciousness, mindedness, and "the soul." And following upon this, in the clearance thus created, the soul attained new statuses of itself on the historic battlefields of war and revolution. First-order killings gave way to second-order killings, the killings of metaphysics and philosophy. Turning around upon itself (even as it violently engaged those adversarial others through whom its self-relation was mediated) the soul learned to self-critically cut into itself. It was in this way, as the inwardness of the blood that was paid out for it, that psychology emerged. Topics include ritual slaughter as primordial soul-making, shadow integration and the rise of psychology, blood-brotherhood and blood-revenge, the alchemy of history, Kafka’s "In the Penal Colony," child sacrifice, Islamic terrorism, and the animus as negation with special reference to Bluebeard.

GENRE
Gesundheit, Körper und Geist
ERSCHIENEN
2020
17. April
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
484
Seiten
VERLAG
Taylor and Francis
GRÖSSE
3.6
 MB

Mehr Bücher von Wolfgang Giegerich

What is Soul? What is Soul?
2020
The Neurosis of Psychology The Neurosis of Psychology
2020
Dialectics & Analytical Psychology Dialectics & Analytical Psychology
2020
Neurosis Neurosis
2020
Working With Dreams Working With Dreams
2020
The Flight into The Unconscious The Flight into The Unconscious
2020

Andere Bücher in dieser Reihe

The Soul Always Thinks The Soul Always Thinks
2020
The Flight into The Unconscious The Flight into The Unconscious
2020
“Dreaming the Myth Onwards” “Dreaming the Myth Onwards”
2020
The Neurosis of Psychology The Neurosis of Psychology
2020
Technology and the Soul Technology and the Soul
2020