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The Jung‐White dialogue and why it couldn't work and won't go away
Author(s) -
Dourley John P.
Publication year - 2007
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.1468-5922.2007.00663.x
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , presupposition , philosophy , thomism , mythology , purgatory , orthodoxy , theology , epistemology , psychoanalysis , psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Abstract : White's Thomism and its Aristotelian foundation were at the heart of his differences with Jung over the fifteen years of their dialogue. The paper examines the precedents and consequences of the imposition of Thomism on the Catholic Church in 1879 in order to clarify the presuppositions White carried into his dialogue with Jung. It then selects two of Jung's major letters to White to show how their dialogue influenced Jung's later substantial work, especially his Answer to Job . The dialogue with White contributed to foundational elements in the older Jung's development of his myth which simply outstripped White's theological imagination and continues to challenge the worlds of contemporary monotheistic orthodoxy in all their variants.