Ghost and self
Jung's paradigm shift and a response to Zinkin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14229452 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Rowland (0000-0002-7052-3451, University of Greenwich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 697-715 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Analytical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8774 • E-ISSN: 1465-5922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2009.01814.x |
| PMID | 19840160 |
| OpenAlex | W1908496034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Zinkin's lucid challenge to Jung makes perfect sense. Indeed, it is the implications of this ‘making sense’ that this paper addresses. For Zinkin's characterization of the ‘self’ takes it as a ‘concept’ requiring coherence; a variety of abstract non‐contextual knowledge that itself has a mythical heritage. Moreover, Zinkin's refinement of Jung seeks to make his work fit for the scientific paradigm of modernity. In turn, modernity's paradigm owes much to Newton's notion of knowledge via reductionism. Here knowledge or investigation is divided up into the smallest possible units with the aim of eventually putting it all together into ‘one’ picture of scientific truth. Unfortunately, ‘reductionism’ does not do justice to the resonant possibilities of Jung's writing. These look forward to a new scientific paradigm of the twenty‐first century, of the interactive ‘field’, emergence and complexity theory. The paper works paradoxically by discovering Zinkin's ‘intersubjective self’ after all, in two undervalued narratives by Jung, his doctoral thesis and a short late ghost story. However, in the ambivalences and radical fictional experimentation of these fascinating texts can be discerned an‐Other self, one both created and found
Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Linguistics · Modernity · Narrative · Paradigm shift · Reductionism · Self · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |