Cultural Attitudes in Psychological Perspective
by Joseph L. Henderson
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A thoughtful work by a senior analyst, co-author (with Jung) of Man and His Symbols. Ranges through the world of art, mythology, literature and the history of ideas.Tags
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- Cultural Attitudes in Psychological Perspective
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- Cultural Attitudes in Psychological Perspective
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- 1984
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- INTRODUCTION
It has often been suggested that psychology might have a place of its own in the spectrum of cultural attitudes, and in this work I have used my experience as a psychotherapist to describe what I think th... (show all)is attitude is and how it functions.
1 The Social Attitude
Influenced as we are today by the claims of countercultural movements, I often have to ask myself what my role is expected to be for each individual patient in my care. What social trend is he i... (show all)dentified with, and in which direction is he moving? How am I affected by these trends? To what extent am I vulnerable? Naturally, I have no definitive answer
to such questions, but empirically, I try to rely upon my own social attitude so as not to become confused by
contrasting pressures. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In this way, even those failures to outwardly satisfy initiation hunger, or love that may not include sexual fulfillment, or the urge toward death that lacks but envisions some form of immortality-even these bring us face to face with the dual nature of the archetype. Acknowledging this, and accepting that as mere humans we are bound to the conflict inherent in duality, we may yet find new life between the opposites of our own nature.
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