Opposition and Postmodernism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21204455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cecile T Tougas (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 68-77 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jung Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1934-2039 • E-ISSN: 1934-2047 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/jung.2009.3.1.68 |
| OpenAlex | W2061548968 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
In response to the work of Susan Rowland and Jean Kirsch in addressing postmodernism, I describe one part of postmodernism that needs clarification: the understanding of opposition. Opposites are not two but are, rather, a complex order of twelve logical relations. I go back to the Square of Opposition from Aristotle's On Interpretation, particularly as illustrated in a ninth-century manuscript from Apuleius, as it describes logical relations of opposition. I show in detail how a complex order exists both in logic and in double marriage as Jung describes and sketches it in The Psychology of the Transference. Moreover, complementary opposites are distinct yet inseparable; one cannot exist without the other. Jung saw ego and anima as complementary—different yet interdependent. Such differentiation in psychoanalysis, culminating in the reciprocity of marriage, is thus by no means simply a social construction. Logic is not identical to any ego, even as the “I” of personal volition—as willingness, trying, effort—contributes something unique and irreplaceable to the unconscious flow that gives it life. Logic is an order of oppositional interdependence in which the complexity of speaking, writing, and double marriage stands
Binary opposition · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Politics · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Highly cited | No |
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