Affirming the Contradiction Jungian Aesthetics, Reification, and the Shadow
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This paper explores the problem of reification as manifested in the fields of art and depth psychology. Byconsidering C. G. Jung’s interpretive strategy and contrasting this with the archetypal tradition’s focus onimage, the author seeks to outline and expand upon some of the theoretical tensions thus implied. It issuggested that the notion of reification is directly related to Jung’s concept of the shadow, and that theminimizing of ego dynamics within the archetypal tradition may expose certain aspects of this approach toquestion.
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