On Jung and Lévi-Strauss unconscious: A brief comparison

Giuseppe Iurato (1)

1 Department of Physics

Retracing the main common aspects between the anthropological thought and the psychoanalytic one, in this paper we will further discuss about the main common points between the notions of unconscious according to Carl Gustav Jung and Claude Lévi-Strauss, taking into account the Erich Neumann thought. On the basis of very simple elementary logic considerations centered around the basic notion of separation of opposites, what will be said might turn out to be useful for some speculations upon possible origins of the rational thought, hence for the origins of consciousness.

Mots clés: archetype; analytical psychology; unconscious; structural anthropology; opposites; classical logic

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Psychologie

Giuseppe Iurato. On Jung and Lévi-Strauss unconscious: A brief comparison. 2013. ⟨hal-00840195⟩