Jung's Self Psychology: A Constructivist Perspective

by James A. Hall and Polly Young-Eisendrath

Jung was fascinated by the problem of unity in the personality. If the personality is made up of multiple voices or affective-imaginal states, as he believed it was, then how does an individual achieve a core self? Jung concluded that a coherent and continuous self is the hard won achievement of consciousness, the product of a mature personality in the second half of life. His theory of the integration of multiple subjectivities into an individuating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089862553X
• ISBN13: 9780898625530
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"