Considerations on the kinship of Jung and phenomenology

Abstract

Considering Jung’s position in the national academic context, the present paper presents an epistemological analysis of the relationship between Jung and Phenomenology. First, the historical development of the concept of Phenomenology was revised, in order to outline the meaning in which Husserl, founder of Phenomenology as a philosophical movement, applies the term. After that, it tries to understand in Jung’s work how he used the term and how he personally related to the phenomenological movement. In conclusion, it suggests that the resemblance between Jung and Husserl’s Phenomenology is established not in terms of philosophical radicals but from a similar methodological attitude.