Unconcealing Jung’s transcendent function with Heidegger
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Article Title | Unconcealing Jung’s transcendent function with Heidegger |
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ERA Journal ID | 124524 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Gildersleeve, Matthew |
Journal Title | The Humanistic Psychologist |
Journal Citation | 43 (3), pp. 297-309 |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2015 |
Place of Publication | Philadelphia, PA, United States |
ISSN | 0887-3267 |
1547-3333 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/08873267.2014.993074 |
Abstract | In the first sentence of his book, The Transcendent Function, Jeffery Miller says 'The transcendent function is the core of Carl Jung's theory of psychological growth and the heart of what he called individuation, the process by which one is guided in a teleological way toward the person he or she is meant to be' (Miller, 2004, p. 1). Consequently, for Jung, the transcendent function is the question of unveiling the unconscious for individuation to take place or, as Heidegger would say, the question of unveiling Being for authenticity to take place. As a result of the apparent equivalence, these questions can be synthesised to demonstrate that read together, each of these thinkers brings deeper understanding, meaning, and interpretation to the projects of the other in such a way that an extension for application is created for both philosophy and psychotherapy. |
Keywords | personality disorders; rehabilitation; Heidegger's reflections; phenomenology; ontology; psychoanalysis |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 320221. Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy) |
500310. Phenomenology | |
500320. Psychoanalytic philosophy | |
Public Notes | © 2015, Copyright © Division 32 (Humanistic Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. |
Byline Affiliations | University of Queensland |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q4y0x/unconcealing-jung-s-transcendent-function-with-heidegger
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