A Jungian Understanding of Symbolic Function and Forms: The Dream Series - Paperback

by Dominique Boukhabza (Author)

The purpose of this book is to clarify the function of the symbol and its place at the juncture of psychoanalysis and other social sciences, where the singular and the collective intersect and whose laws are identical.

The debate between Freud and Jung about the symbol is well known; by examining the points of contradiction between their respective approaches, this book seeks to place them in fruitful tension, rather than categorical opposition and explore their similarities and differences. In later chapters, the author further analyses the function of the symbol in relation to the topics of myth, anthropology and dreams.

This thoughtful book will appeal to those interested and involved in analytical psychology and psychoanalysis, as well as psychiatrists and psychologists.

Author Biography

Dominique Boukhabza is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She has published: La lettre du rêve, un lecteur pour la psychose, erès/Arcanes, 2012, Le cas Jung, Aperçu sur la face psychotique du transfert, Anthropos Economica, 2017, and many articles. She is the president of the association Lien de la lettre.