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The self in analysis
Author(s) -
YoungEisendrath Polly
Publication year - 1997
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/j.1465-5922.1997.00157.x
Subject(s) - essentialism , self , constructivism (international relations) , epistemology , analytical psychology , psychology , hermeneutics , psychoanalysis , subject (documents) , self knowledge , philosophy , computer science , library science , political science , law , international relations , politics
This paper develops a theoretical and clinical approach to the self which is non‐essentialist and post‐modem. Briefly, it offers a framework for theorizing Self based on hermeneutics and psychological constructivism. It then develops a critique of the essentialist Jungian theory of Self in which the Self is frequently described as a human subject with views, intentions and desires of its own. With this is background, a post‐modern Jungian framework for Self is advanced, with a brief clinical account of the self in analysis.