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A preliminary sketch of a Jungian socioanalysis – an emerging theory combining analytical psychology, complexity theories, sociological theories, socio‐ and psycho‐analysis, group analysis and affect theories 1
Author(s) -
Odde Dorte,
Vestergaard Arne
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5922.12667
Subject(s) - sketch , psychology , analytical psychology , affect (linguistics) , epistemology , sociological theory , psychoanalysis , sociology , social psychology , philosophy , mathematics , communication , algorithm
This paper presents a preliminary sketch of what we have termed a Jungian socioanalysis – an emerging theory combining analytical psychology, complexity theories, sociological theories, socio‐ and psycho‐analysis, group analysis and affect theories. Our assumption is that Jungian theory and practice need to attend to and focus more on social contexts, sociality and the influence of societal developments. But also, on the other hand, that analytical psychology, primarily Jung’s theory of individuation and the transcendent function as well as the broad complexity perspective of his theory of psyche, can be extended to a ‘socio’ and not just a ‘psycho’ perspective. The paper presents five foundational assumptions for a Jungian socioanalysis, with the following headings: 1) A Jungian socioanalysis calls for a complex psychology; 2) (Un)consciousness is social and sociality has a dimension of (un)consciousness; 3) A Jungian socioanalysis explores social fields ‘from within’ by smaller groups; 4) A Jungian socioanalysis enables and is enabled by emerging metaphors and affect‐imagery; 5) Socio‐cultural fields have an impulse toward individuation. This is the first of two papers in the present edition of the journal – the second paper gives socio‐clinical illustrations of our thesis in this paper.