Personhood and Pathology: The Jungian Psyche and Maximian Anthropology
This paper explores connections between the psychic anthropology of C. G. Jung and that of Maximus the Confessor, a 7th-century Eastern Christian philosopher. Both saw the ability to fully bear one's experiences without avoidance through fantasy as a key to human health and the target of therap...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2015, Volume: 64, Issue: 3, Pages: 287-295 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages NBE Anthropology TK Recent history ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Desert Fathers
B Maximus B Christian philosophers B Jung B JUNG, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961 B Anthropology B Psyche B Jungian Psychology B Personality (Theory of knowledge) B Public health |
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| Summary: | This paper explores connections between the psychic anthropology of C. G. Jung and that of Maximus the Confessor, a 7th-century Eastern Christian philosopher. Both saw the ability to fully bear one's experiences without avoidance through fantasy as a key to human health and the target of therapy. Maximus understood avoidance of experience as a partly conscious turning of the self away from God in order to create fantastic fields of control, and Jung understood the phenomenon as a movement of the unconscious motivated by involuntary reactions to shadow material. Both encouraged humans to fully embrace reality in each moment. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-014-0629-x |