On the Nature of Neurosis: How can We See it from a Standpoint of Jung’s Psychology?
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https://doi.org/10.12974/2313-1047.2015.02.02.2Keywords:
Neurosis, Jung’s psychology, dissociation.Abstract
In this paper, the author attempted to discuss the nature of neurosis from a viewpoint of Jung’s psychology. The relation between Jung’s own experience of neurosis in his boyhood and his theory of neurosis established in later years was first examined, from which the author pointed out that Jung’s theory of neurosis had been based on his own experience of neurosis from long ago. Then, the concept of dissociation in Jung’s psychology was critically discussed, through which the author insisted that the concept of dissociation had been primal in Jung’s psychopathology but, for this reason, Jung’s psychology could not help being led into so-called dissociative state in its own way of being. In the end, it was proposed that the actual task of psychology today is to see various phenomena as a trial to transform the status of our consciousness on the basis of the soul’s intention.
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