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Dialectical Psychology
Dialectical Psychology
Dialectical psychology names Wolfgang Giegerich’s radicalization of the Jungian project, in which the soul is reconceived not as a set of contents (archetypes, complexes, images) but as a logical movement — a self-negating, self-developing dialectic in the Hegelian sense. The psyche, on this reading, is the life of the logic itself: it thinks itself through its images by negating each one in the direction of the next, and the analytic work is not the retrieval of images but the soul’s thinking-through of its own unfolding.
The position is sharply distinct from archetypal psychology’s image-centered stance. Where Hillman deepens into the image, Giegerich moves through it. See souls-logical-life for the canonical formulation and anthropological-fallacy for Giegerich’s critique of the Jungian mainstream.