1st Edition

Rhetorical Investigations G. B. Vico and C. G. Jung

By Leslie Gardner Copyright 2013
240 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Rhetorical analysis of texts exposes plausible ‘truths’ and presumptions implied by the writer’s presentation. In this volume, Leslie Gardner analyses the master psychologist Jung, who claimed to be expert at uncovering personal, psychological truths. In his theoretical writings, his rhetoric reveals philosophical ramifications which bear strong similarities to those of the rhetorician of the... Read more

Introduction: Underpinnings and Propositions. Tensions Psychoanalysis/Rhetoric/Science. Jung’s Rhetorical Stance. Topical Invention and Tropes, Tools of the Imagination: Definitions and Issues. Psychological Types and Rhetorical Devices – Perspectives. Considering Fantasy, Fiction and Lacan. High Profile Representations: Metaphor and Metonymy: Jung, Vico and Ricoeur, Phenomenological Anthropology; William James. Word Association Tests, And Deliberative Logic – Forensic Jung. Pathé and Jung’s Passionate Agony Over ‘Answer To Job’. Ethos, the Rhetoric of ‘Memories, Dreams, Reflections’ and Perjuries of Self-Presentations: With Two-Part Preamble.  Concluding Remarks.

Biography

Leslie Gardner

"Gardner has created a complex and concentrated rhetorical analysis of Carl Gustav Jung's and Giambattista Vico's work. In comparing and contrasting the many rhetorical devices each use in their writings, Gardner draws on both contemporary and historical philosophers and psychologists...Summing Up: Recommended"- J. Bailey, Caldwell Community College and TEchnical Institute, for CHOICE, November 2013