Description
Book SynopsisCarl Jung has always lain at the edge of sociology''s consciousness, despite the existence of a long-established Freudian tradition. Yet, over the years, a small number of sociological writers have considered Jung; one or two Jungian writers have considered sociology. The range of perspectives is quite wide: Durkheim, Weber, Marx, Levi-Strauss, feminism, mass society, postmodernism. These scattered writings, however, have had little cumulative impact and inspired little debate. The authors seem often not to have known of each other, while the sociological mainstream has remained unmoved or unaware.
This is the situation that this book seeks to change. Jung and Sociological Theory brings together a selection of articles and excerpts in a single volume, together with some writings from anthropology, and seeks to begin the task of critical evaluation. Presented in three parts, the book covers anthropology, sociology and an appraisal of Jung and sociological theory. Gavin W
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Jung and the sociocultural sciences
Part I: Anthropology
Introduction: Anthropology and Jung
Edward Sapir – Culture as "as-if" psychology
Ruth Benedict – The individual and the pattern of culture
Paul Radin – On Freud, Adler and Jung
Paul Radin – Psychological types: The man of action and the thinker
Paul Radin – Psychological types:The religious and the non-religious man
Part II: Sociology
Introduction: Sociology and Jung
Ira Progoff – The psyche in society and history
Susan Greenwood – Émile Durkheim and C. G. Jung: Structuring a transpersonal sociology of religion
Chito Guala – Jung, Durkheim, Lévi-Strauss: From archetypes to models
Vernon W. Gras – Myth and the reconciliation of opposites: Jung and Lévi-Strauss
James M. Glass – Marx, Kafka and Jung: The appearance of species-being
Beverley D. Zabriskie –The feminine pre- and post-Jungian
Gavin Walker – Sociological theory and Jungian psychology
Marko Novak – Ideal types of law from the perspective of psychological typology
Part III: Appraisal
Jung and sociocultural theory
Introduction: Jung and the sociocultural sciences
Jung and the sociological landscape
Jung, sociology and reflexive analysis
Readings: The authors
Index
