1st Edition

Cartesian Philosophy and the Flesh Reflections on incarnation in analytical psychology

By Frances Gray Copyright 2013
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

How do you know anything is true? What relation is there between my psyche and your psyche, does one exist? Can we doubt everything or are some things indubitable? What does Jung have to say about body and psyche, body and mind? Cartesian Philosophy and the Flesh is an analysis and critique of interpretations of Cartesian philosophy in analytical psychology. It focuses on readings of... Read more

Introduction. Analytical Psychologists Read the Philosophy of René Descartes. Spiritual Exercises and Descartes' Meditations. Descartes and the Making of Distinctions. Inner and Outer Troubles. Jung and the Phenomenological Standpoint. Flesh, Reflection, and Transcendence. Flesh Issues: Elemental Mattering.

Biography

Frances Gray is a Philosopher, Mediator and Philosophical Counsellor. She is an Honorary Research Advisor in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Jung, Irigaray, Individuation: Philosophy, Analytical Psychology and the Question of the Feminine (Routledge, 2008).