Romantic Metasubjectivity Through Schelling And Jung by Gord Barentsen, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Romantic Metasubjectivity Through Schelling and Jung: Rethinking the Romantic Subjectexploresthe remarkable intellectual isomorphism between the philosophy of Friedrich Schelling and Carl Jung's analytical psychology in order to offer a crucial and original corrective to the "reflection theory" of subjectivity. Arguing that the reflection theory of the subject does not do justice to the full compass of Romantic thinking about the human being, Romantic Metasubjectivitysees human identity as neither discursive aftereffect nor centred around a self-transparent "I" but rather as constellated around the centripetal force of what Novalis calls "The Self of one's self." The author begins with a unique reading of Schelling's earlyNaturphilosophieas primal site rather than Freudian scene, thinking this site through hisPhilosophical Inquiries Into the Nature of Human FreedomtoThe Ages of the World. Reading Jungian metapsychology and its core concepts as therapeutic amplifications of Schelling, the author articulates an intellectual counter-transference in which Schelling and Jung contemporise each other. The book then demonstrates how Romantic metasubjectivity operates in the libidinal matrix of Romantic poetry through readings of William Wordsworth'sThe Preludeand Percy Shelley'sPrometheus Unbound. The book concludes with a discussion of the hit TV seriesBreaking Badas a "case study" of the challenges Romantic metasubjectivity raises for fundamental ethical dilemmas which confront us in the twenty-first century. Romantic Metasubjectivityis a highly original work of scholarship and will appeal to students and scholars in German Idealism, Romanticism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, theory, Jung studies, and those with an interest in contemporary theories of the subject. | Romantic Metasubjectivity Through Schelling And Jung by Gord Barentsen, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters