JUNG AND EASTERN THOUGHT pdf

[...]... sport consists in drawing sweeping contrasts between Eastern and Western thought, values and society, sharp polarities which are seen as summing up 19 JUNG AND EASTERN THOUGHT essential differences A commonplace example of such polarities is to be found in the contrast between Western materialism and rationalism on the one hand, and Eastern spirituality and mysticism on the other Pairs of epithets such... evident and wide-ranging cultural interchange, an inter-penetration of lives and ideas between East and West, students in the field of humanities are often educated solely within a 7 JUNG AND EASTERN THOUGHT closed cultural world that is confined by and large to Europe and North America Histories of ideas, which should be in the business of opening, not confining, minds, still tend to ignore Eastern thought, ... many centuries And, as we have just noted, this interest also raises important philosophical and cultural questions, questions which will recur throughout the book It should also be stressed that Jung himself 11 JUNG AND EASTERN THOUGHT sought to place his theories within a broad intellectual and historical context, drawing attention to their ‘wide significance and application’ (CW6.xi) and to their... noted that there has persisted, from the time of Leibniz and Voltaire in the eighteenth century to the time of Jung and beyond, an intellectual relationship with the 9 JUNG AND EASTERN THOUGHT East of a quite different kind from that characterised by Said This relationship has displayed an earnest respect for Eastern peoples and their cultures, and, far from consciously denigrating or belittling the... idea – which has a history and a pathology, and is infused with myth and hidden meaning In the words of Edward Said: ‘The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences’ (1978: 1) It constitutes the ‘other’, that which stands opposite to us as strange and alien, and it is this very otherness... and the history of ideas’ (CW18.1739) It is hoped, then, that for these reasons, this section will provide a useful background to the central section of the book, Dialogue, which narrates and analyses Jung s own dialogue with the East Chapter 4 traces out the main paths of Jung s intellectual journey to the East, and Chapters 5–7 deal with specific texts and concepts, such as the I Ching and the mandala,... levelled against Jung s views on this question, and here I shall discuss some of the evident limitations that are to be found in Jung s hermeneutical approach The concluding chapter offers an overall appraisal of the contemporary relevance of his endeavour to ‘build a bridge of understanding’ between East and West, and asks how we might read Jung today on the issue of East–West understanding This method... Chapter 8 as ‘reservations and qualifications’, and often seeming to be debating with himself the value of the whole enterprise Furthermore, Jung s own contact with Eastern thought was thoroughly mediated, and depended on translations and interpretations which, as we shall see 12 INTRODUCTION in Chapter 9, were in some respects highly problematical In addition, the interpretations of Jung put forward in this... tasks will be to address to Jung the sort of ideological and philosophical questions broached by Said and other critics, and to confront the difficulties and deficiencies in Jung s whole approach Although – as will be evident in the text which follows – I find myself in sympathy with many facets of Jung s thinking, I shall also be investigating the weaknesses in his approach, and shall draw attention... exclusion’ giving rise to the feeling of separateness, seclusion, and suspicion between Asians and Europeans (1928: 8) More recently Richard Bernstein has referred to the pervasive fallacy that ‘there are essential determinate characteristics that distinguish the Western and the Eastern “mind”’ (in Deutsch, 1991: 93) 17 JUNG AND EASTERN THOUGHT Furthermore, this ‘glass curtain’, or ‘wall of exclusion’, . y0 w0 h0" alt="" JUNG AND EASTERN THOUGHT In Jung and Eastern Thought J.J. Clarke seeks to uncover the seriousness and relevance of Jung s dialogue with. Plaut Jung and Phenomenology Roger Brooke Jung and the Monotheisms Edited by Joel Ryce-Menuhin Shame and the Origins of Self-Esteem Mario Jacoby JUNG AND EASTERN THOUGHT A