The Social Character of the Unconscious. A Cross Reading between G. H. Mead and C. G. Jung
Lorenzo Bruni,
Matteo Santarelli
Abstract:The aim of this essay is to develop an original interpretative hypothesis concerning problematic aspects of Georege Herbert Mead's social theory of the Self in the light of Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology. First of all, we will try to unveil a link between the Meadian component of the Self defined I and the dimension of the unconscious. Discussion of this connection will open to the hypothesis that the Meadian I can be understood as both an instinctive, unconscious and non‐pre‐social component of the … Show more
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