Raids on the Unthinkable: Freudian and Jungian Psychoanalyses [Paperback]

Paul Kugler (Author)

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Publication Date: March 15, 2005

Freudian and Jungian approaches to psychoanalysis have long been characterized by an historical animosity, acutely felt differences widening into strikingly different styles of discourse. Paul Kugler critically rethinks the pivotal concepts of psychoanalysis, and in the process makes evident what the theoretical differences between Freud and Jung have to offer contemporary depth psychology. Through a constructive dialogue between Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis, Kugler shows that such a project is not only theoretically possible but that it is also of great clinical value. Topics include the unthinkable in depth psychology, Post-Structuralism and linguistics, seduction and the crisis of representation, the legacy of the dead, the co-evolutionary process of biology and language, and other topics at the frontier of contemporary psychoanalysis.

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PAUL KUGLER, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst trained in Zurich practicing in East Aurora, New York. He is the past president of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Jungian Analysts. His books include Supervision Jungian Perspectives on Clinical Supervision, and, more recently, The Alchemy of Discourse: Image, Sound and Psyche.

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• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Spring Journal, Inc (March 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882670914
• ISBN-13: 978-1882670918
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,336,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Being a person who has long been stimulated by both Jungian and contemporary psychoanalytic thinking, I was very interested to find someone who does such an excellent job tracing both the history and developments in these two fields that are likely far more "integrateable" that it might seem. Dr. Kugler does an excellent job at showing what fertile material these traditions offer in their distinctiveness and, the results of their cross-pollination.