For the first time, C. G. Jung's entire body of work is the object of a philosophical interpretation. Read More
Long downplayed by academic critics, Carl Gustav Jung's many contributions to a renewal of philosophical anthropology, are argued here. The philosophical interpretation of the body of work follows two common threads: on the one hand, a permanently positive evaluation of Kant's philosophy by the Swiss phychologist, on the other hand, identifying the archetypal collective unconscious to a transcendental a priori giving substance to specifically Jungian concepts: quaternity, mandalas, synchronicity. Both orientations required a confrontation of Jung’s works not only to the philosophers of his time whom he evaluated himself (Kant, Hegel, German romanticists) but also to two currents of contemporary philosophy referring to kantism : phenomenology (Husserl) and the philosophy of cultural forms (Cassirer). These confrontations confirm the philosophical fecundity of Jungian thought in the field of anthropology.