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Jung, Kierkegaard and Ellul – Module 24

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Requirements

Previous any four modules in SPoR.

Description

This module explores the work of the three foundational philosophers to the work of SPoR – Soren Kierkegaard, Carl Jung and Jacques Ellul. There are many philosophers associated in Existenialist (not Existentialism) Phenomenology, Dialectic (not Hegelian) and radical Christianity.

Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher often attributed as the founder of the Existentialist worldview and the importance of faith. His lyrical writing, Poetics and apologetic against: Hegel, Swedenborg, Fichte and Shelling are crucial to understand his philosophy. Kierkegaard is not afraid of subjectivity and exposes the delusions of the myth of objectivity.

Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist who separated from Freud because of the way Freud understood the human person negatively and sexually. Jung’s work on the unconscious, Collective Unconscious, Archetypes, Metaphysics, Semiotics (symbolism), Mythology, Personality, the Mind and, Psychology of Religion, is unparalleled.

Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was a French Philosopher, Historian, Sociologist, Lawyer, Radical Theologian, Marxist Economist and Political Critic. He wrote more than 50 books on all these subjects, the most famous his work on Technique (the quest for efficiency), Christian Anarchism and Justice. His philosophy is dialectical, existentialist and Marxist. His most challenging work to tackle is The Ethics of Freedom.

All three hold a position of Radical Christianity and understand the Scriptures Poetically, Mythologically and Semiotically. All three accept the paradox of existence, dialectic in being and person-focused orientation/disposition.

Required text

Greenman, J., Schuchardt, R and Toly, N., (2012). Understanding Jacques Ellul. Cascade Books. Eugene Oregon.

Hong, H., and Hong, E., (eds.) (2000) The Essential Kierkegaard. Princeton University Press. Preinceton.

Jung, C. G., (1964) Man and His Symbols. Dell, New York.

It is also suggested that participants read background information through Wikipedia or Britannica.

Videos Lectures

There are currently no recorded videos for this module.

There are however, extensive videos on all three on Youtube.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this module participants will:

Better understand the foundations of SPoR
Learn about the nature of SPoR philosophy
Understand Dialectic, Existentialist, Phenomenology and Radical Christian Theology
Consider how critical principles such as Technique, Socialitie, Mentalitie, Collective Unconscious, Archetypes, Semiotics, Mythology, Fallibility and Metaphysics help tackle the wickedity of risk.
Consider how SPoR philosophy drives: Ethic, Ontology and Worldview
Challenge philosophies that demonise the human person
Challenge philosophies of measurement and the myth of objectivity
Work towards articulating their own ontology
Read critical texts by Kierkegaard, Jung and Ellul
Apply knowledge to the nature of tackling risk

Content

Background and life of Kierkegaard
Formation against Hegelian dialectic
Overview of philosophies of certainty and myth of objectivity (Kant, Descartes).
Kierkegaardian existentialism against Sartre and Nietzsche
Lyrical Poetic knowing
The fear of subjectivity
The nature and fear of Faith
A study of the Book of Job (Blake and Jung)
Anxiety about Death (Becker)
Metaphysics and the rejection of Materialism, Positivism and Behaviourism
Can risk be known?
Jung and the Unconscious and Collective Unconscious
Mandala
The nature of Archetypes, Semiosphere, Symbols and Semiotic knowing
Dialectic with the Shadow
The fear of mystery and paradox
Making the Unconscious Conscious through iCue listening
Facing our mythologies
Who then is the human fallible person?
Mapping ontology and dialectic
The nature of Technique
Forces that have power to themselves – Money, Power
Reading Ellul – freedom and necessity
The nature of resistance and cognitive dissonance
Conversion, e-motion and movement
Rejecting dogma and fundamentalism
Wickedity and risk
Semiotics as language
Knowing and being as a ‘dance’
The nature of Power and the politics of risk
Leaps of faith
The faith and reason dialectic

Assignments

You are expected to keep a journal (A4 if possible) of reflections particularly in relationship to reading the readings and making visits on a related semiotic walk.

Your journal is a thinking, documenting, reflecting book where you use the visual and spacial literacy tools provided in previous units (and experience from the unit on Semiotics) to interrogate space and place and how these relate to following-leading. The key questions for thinking are on the visual and spacial literacy tool.

Your journal can include: photos, floor diagrams, concept mapping, sketches, dot points, flyers, pictures, notes, Venn diagrams, images of semiotics, concept maps, doodles, notes on words, slogans and text or any form of input that helps show how you think and reflect on what you saw.

The purpose of the journal is for you to demonstrate your skill in interrogating place and place and how this defines philosophy.

All philosophy (methodology) is displayed in method, design and the physical world. Eg. Architecture as a philosophy is evident in design, art, music, theatre, literature and the Poetics of Space.

Your journal needs to be posted to Rob at 10 Jens Place Kambah ACT 2902 or rob@cllr.com.au

Contact

admin@cllr.com.au

mb:0424547115

Dropbox

CLLR maintain a dropbox readings account where all readings relevant to studies can be accessed.

Reading List

Ellul, J., (1964) The Technological Society. Vintage Books, New York.

Ellul, J., (1965) Propaganda, The Formation of Men’s Attitudes. Vintage Books, New York.

Ellul,J., (1969) Violence. Mowbrays, London.

Ellul, J., (1973) Propaganda, The Formation of Men’s Attitudes. Vintage Books. New York.
Ellul, J., (1976) The Ethics of Freedom. Eerdmanns, Michigan.

Ellul, J., (1979) Money and Power. IVP Press, Illinois.

Ellul, J., (1981) Perspectives on Our Age, Jacques Ellul Speaks on His Life and Work. HarperCollins, Scarborough..

Ellul, J., (1988) Jesus and Marx, From Gospel to Ideology. Eerdmans, Michagan.

Ellul, J., (1989) What I Believe. Eerdmans. Michigan.

Ellul, J., (1990) The Technological Bluff. Eerdmans, Michigan.

Ellul, J., (1997) Sources and Trajectories. Eerdmans, Michigan.

Greenman, J., Schuchardt, R and Toly, N., (2012). Understanding Jacques Ellul. Cascade Books. Eugene Oregon.

Hong, H., and Hong, E., (eds.) (2000) The Essential Kierkegaard. Princeton University Press. Preinceton.

Jung, C. G., (1958) Symbols of Transformation. Bollingen, Princeton.

Jung, C. G., (1958) Answer to Job. Bollingen Press. Princeton.

Jung, C.G. (1959) Mandala Symbolism. Bollingen, Princeton.

Jung, C. G., (1960) Syncronicity. Princeton University Press, New York.

Jung, C. G., (1964) Man and His Symbols. Dell, New York.

Jung, C. G., (1968) Psychology and Alchemy. Bollingen, Princeton.

Jung, C. G., (1968) The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious. Bollingen, Princeton.

Kierkegaard, S., The Concept of Anxiety. A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin. Translated and Edited Hannay, A., (2014) Norton and Co. New York.

Kierkegaard, S., Fear and Trembling, and The Sickness Unto Death. Translated Walter Lowrie (1974) Princeton. New Jersey.

Resources on Jung

Jung Webpages

https://jungpage.org/

Jung Society

https://www.jung.org/who-is-carl-jung

Jung Resources

https://www.carl-jung.net/

CG Jung Foundation

https://www.cgjungny.org/

Jung Depth Psychology

https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog/