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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 1 / 2018  
         
  Article:   JUNG AND EXISTENTIALISM.

Authors:  ȘTEFAN BOLEA.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  In the following paper I will argue that there are interesting connections between the founder of analytical psychology, Carl Gustav Jung, and the school of existentialism. Analytical psychology and existentialism share almost the same Zeitgeist (becoming influential between the 1930s and 1960s) and are both interested in the concept of individuality. I would like to follow the liaison between Jung and existentialism regarding authenticity and death. First of all, the concept of authenticity deserves extensive treatment. Heideggerʼs das Man and Sartreʼs mauvaise foi have an interesting companion in Jungʼs notion of the persona, the psychological concept of "the mask". Second of all, existentialist authenticity can be compared to the Jungian integration of the shadow. Moreover, the concept of death (Heideggerʼs Sein-zum-Tode) can be compared with Jungʼs understanding of death from The Red Book.

Keywords: individuation, persona, authenticity, integration of the shadow, existential death
 
         
     
         
         
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