Wolfgang Giegerich & The Soul's Logical Life: Psychology After the Death of Myth
Has modern psychology become trapped in romantic nostalgia? Can 21st-century human beings truly live inside the mythic worldviews of ancient alchemists, Greek gods, or tribal rituals without indulging in intellectual self-deception? In the contemporary Post-Jungian landscape, no thinker has challenged depth psychology more fiercely than German analyst and philosopher Dr. Wolfgang Giegerich . In controversial, brilliant works like The Soul's Logical Life , Neurosis: The Logic of a Symptom , and Technology and the Soul , Giegerich formulated Dialectical Psychology . He argued that the soul is not a static collection of ancient pictorial symbols or mythical gods. Instead, the soul is a dynamic, evolving logical process that has moved beyond ancient myth into the rigorous, technological reality of the modern age. The Critique of Romantic Jungianism Giegerich offered a radical critique of traditional Jungian and Archetypal psychology: TRADITIONAL vs. DIA...