1st Edition

A Jungian Understanding of Symbolic Function and Forms The Dream Series

By Dominique Boukhabza Copyright 2023
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

The purpose of this book is to clarify the function of the symbol and its place at the juncture of psychoanalysis and other social sciences, where the singular and the collective intersect and whose laws are identical. The debate between Freud and Jung about the symbol is well known; by examining the points of contradiction between their respective approaches, this book seeks to place them in... Read more
Introduction  1. The Freud-Jung debate on the symbol  2. The symbolic function and anthropology  3. Symbolic forms  4. The work of the letter  Conclusion

Biography

Dominique Boukhabza is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She has published: La lettre du rêve, un lecteur pour la psychose, erès/Arcanes, 2012, Le cas Jung, Aperçu sur la face psychotique du transfert, Anthropos Economica, 2017, and many articles. She is the president of the association Lien de la lettre.