Psyche and ethics in C. G. Jung

the place of the irrational in the constitution of the ethos

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https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6564e20180133

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ethics, C. G. Jung, alterity

Abstract

The article calls into question Jung’s assertion that ethics would be summed up in the relationship between man and God. Taking it as a problem, it seeks an articulation between the Jungian concepts for an answer of what is meant by ethics in this perspective. We outline a course that goes through the problems of moral opposites, the confrontation with the shadow, and finally, we approach the question that starts the research. In the end, we argue that such a relationship referred to by Jung is, in psychological terms, the relationship between the ego and the Self. Ethics would be in this system a response to that other supra-rational voice, “the voice of God,” which, beyond the pure aesthetics of the image, combines conscious and unconscious; demands the entire personality.

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2019-08-22

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Psyche and ethics in C. G. Jung: the place of the irrational in the constitution of the ethos. (2019). Psicologia USP, 30, e180133. https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6564e20180133