The Seba library treats Epiphenomenon in 7 passages, across 1 author (including Jung, Carl Gustav).
psychology that treats the psyche as an epiphenomenon would better call itself brain-psychology… there are no grounds at all for regarding it as a mere epiphenomenon, dependent though it may be on the functioning of the brain.
Jung’s foundational argument that the psyche possesses irreducible ontological status and cannot be legitimately classified as a secondary by-product of cerebral processes.
, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, 1960thesis
the real and authentic psyche is the unconscious, whereas the ego-consciousness can be regarded only as a temporary epiphenomenon.
Jung inverts the standard epiphenomenalism charge, subordinating ego-consciousness to the unconscious as the more primary psychic reality.
, The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and Other Subjects, 1954thesis
if it is regarded as predetermined and causally dependent upon the instincts, it is an epiphenomenon of secondary importance.
Jung identifies the will as potentially epiphenomenal under a strictly deterministic-instinctual framework, illustrating how the concept applies differentially within his own psychological architecture.
, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, 1960supporting
mind: as biochemical phenomenon, 339… as epiphenomenon of matter, 340; and matter, 339; self-knowledge of, 383.
Index references situating ‘mind as epiphenomenon of matter’ as a position Jung engages and contests across the volume.
, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, 1960supporting
psyche… as epiphenomenon, 342; etymology, 345; and external happenings, 350; falsifies reality, 353.
Index entry confirming that the reduction of psyche to epiphenomenon is catalogued as a named position within Jung’s systematic engagement with the question of psychic ontology.
, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, 1960supporting
if we maintain that mental and psychic phenomena arise from the activity of the glands we can be sure of the respect and applause of our contemporaries… both views are equally logical, equally metaphysical, equally arbitrary and equally symbolic.
Jung exposes the cultural-ideological motivation behind physicalist reduction, arguing that material explanation of mind enjoys social prestige rather than epistemological superiority.
, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, 1960supporting
explanatory principles are only points of view, that is, manifestations of the psychological attitude and of the a priori conditions under which all thinking takes place.
Jung’s epistemological caveat contextualising the causal-mechanistic versus energic-final debate within which epiphenomenalism is one available interpretive stance.
, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, 1960aside