Introduction: Psychology and the Other. PART I: BASIC CONCEPTS OF PSYCHOLOGY: CHILD, SHADOW, ANIMUS. 1. The Rescued Child, or the Misappropriation of Time: On the Search for Meaning. 2. First Shadow, then Anima, or The Advent of the Guest: Shadow Integration and the Rise of Psychology. 3. The Animus as Negation and as the Soul’s Own Other: The Soul’s Threefold Stance toward Its Experience of Its Other. PART II: THE FOREIGNNESS OF THE ARCHAIC PSYCHE. 4. The Sacrifice of Isaac and the Watershed of History: Preparatory and Methodological Remarks Concerning the Topic of Ritual Killings. 5. Killings. 6. Blood Brotherhood, Blood Revenge and Devotio: Glimpses of the Archaic Psyche. 7. Once More, the Reality/Irreality Issue: A Reply to Hillman’s Reply. PART III: PSYCHOLOGY’S PLACE AND ROLE IN HISTORY. 8. Comment on James Hillman’s "Psychology: Monotheistic or Polytheistic?". 9. The Alchemy of History. PART IV: REALITY EXTRA ANIMAM. 10. Islamic Terrorism. Index.
Biography
Wolfgang Giegerich is a Jungian analyst, now living in Berlin, and the author of numerous books, among them What Is Soul? and Neurosis: The Logic of a Metaphysical Illness. Giegerich’s Collected English Papers include The Neurosis of Psychology (Vol. I). Technology and the Soul (Vol. 2), Soul-Violence (Vol. 3), The Soul Always Thinks (Vol. 4), The Flight into the Unconscious (Vol. 5), and Dreaming the Myth Onwards (Vol. 6) (all Routledge).
