Towards a Jungian Theory of the Ego

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
	The ego in Jung’s works
		Reasons for lack of clarity
		Resolution of this problem
	The energic paradigm and the symbolic paradigm
	Historical and conceptual perspectives
		The historical perspective
		Conceptual perspective
	Ego psychology: an overview
	Ego psychology: a Jungian overview
	Towards a Jungian theory of the ego
	Comments on organization and scope of this work
	A note on terminology
2 The energic paradigm and the symbolic paradigm
	The energic paradigm
		Basis in 19th century science
		Science versus philosophy
		Characteristics of the energic paradigm
		Experimental theorists
		Medical and psychoanalytic theorists
	The symbolic paradigm
		Jung’s influences
	Comparing the two paradigms in practice
3 1896–1912: historical development
	Beginnings
	The Zofingia years
		Lecture 1: ‘The Border Zones of Exact Science’ (November 1896)
		Lecture 2: ‘Some Thoughts on Psychology’
		Lecture 4: ‘Thoughts on the Nature and Value of Speculative Inquiry’
		Lecture 5: ‘Thoughts on the Interpretation of Christianity, With Reference to the Theory of Albrecht Ritschl’
		Summary of main points
	On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena (1902)
		Hélène Preiswerk and the séances
		The séances
		Jung’s developing ego concept
		Critique of Jung’s ego concept in occult phenomena
	Burghölzli and the association experiment (1902–1910)
		The complex
		Ego-consciousness and defensive actions in the psyche
	Collaboration with Freud (1906–1912)
		‘Psychoanalysis and Association Experiments’ (1906)
		‘The Psychology of Dementia Praecox’ (1907)
		‘The Theory of Psychoanalysis’ (lectures delivered at Fordham University, 1912)
	Clinical implications
		Ego-consciousness
		Ego-complex
		Autonomous complex
4 1912–1945: outer research and inner transformation
	Libido and the energic versus the symbolic paradigm
	Symbols of Transformation (CW 5)
		Libido theory
	Psychological Types (CW 6)
		The two libido tendencies
		The ego
		The development of the ego
		The individual
	Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (CW 7)
		‘On the Psychology of the Unconscious’ (1943)
		‘The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious’ (1935)
	Key ego concepts of this period
		Ego development
		Structural concept
		Adaptation concept
	A defense concept
	A Jungian theory of ego defense
		Defense against conscious perception
		Defense against feeling (the unconscious standpoint)
		Defense against integration
		The mechanisms of defense versus the mechanisms of individuation
5 1945–1961: later works
	Biographical background
	‘A Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower ’ (1929)
		Developments in the role of consciousness and ego
	Alchemical studies (1938–1954) and Aion (1951)
	Mysterium Coniunctionis (1955–1956)
		The ego quaternity
	Implications for clinical practice
		Ego strength
		Access to unconscious standpoint
		The reactive ego standpoint
		The ego, individuation, and a way forward
6 Ego theory in Jung’s psychology
	Towards a Jungian theory of the ego
		Subjective ego
		Structural ego
		Developmental ego
		Cosmogonic ego
Bibliography
Index