There is no ‘truth’ outside a context
Implications for the teaching of analytical psychology in the 21 st century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8982139 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Horne (Seattle University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 127-142 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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.1468-5922.2007.00648.x |
| PMID | 17403210 |
| OpenAlex | W1503483796 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
Humans are from birth embedded in a historical and contemporary context of meanings. This always constrains their theoretical and practical activities. In this paper, I will be suggesting that there are no guiding 'truths' outside such contexts. In order to understand the foundations of any concept or new idea, it is important to comprehend the context in which it is embedded. Candidates and some of their teachers have very little knowledge of the intellectual context in which Jung or any other analytic theorist wrote. As a result, the analytic 'founders' are often believed to have discovered 'truths' transcending the context of history and of everyday life. They were, however, as much creative synthesizers as pure originators. I propose that the components of all analytic theories emerge from their embeddedness. I contend, therefore, that the understandings of these components such as psychic causality, epistemology and identity formation were quite differently conceived at the time the analytic founders were working than they are today. I will give examples to show how the acceptance of this attitude is useful in inculcating a discerning approach in candidates towards traditionally accepted analytic theories and practices. This can provide them with a method to promote their individual creative development
Analytical psychology · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
Archetype, Attachment, Analysis
Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology
Semiotics
The structure of scientific revolutions
The Interpretation of Cultures
Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents
Writing and Difference
Institutional conflicts in Jungian analysis
The Martin Buber‐Carl Jung disputations
Archetypes, complexes and self‐organization
Philosophical assumptions in Freud, Jung and Bion
Towards the feeling of emergence
On the Function of Counter‐Transference
The analyst's body as tuning fork
Memories, fantasies, archetypes
Why we can’t get along
The universe of our concerns
The Baldwin effect
Chaos and self‐organization
Individuation and Ego Development
From archetypes to reflective function
The Postmodern Condition
Madness and Civilization
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2012 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |