Comparacion Entre Fuller Y Jung

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http://sgo.sagepub.com/ Parallels in the Beliefs and Works of Margaret Fuller and Carl Jung : Dreams, Literature, Spirituality, and Gender
Jerry Aldridge, Jennifer L. Kilgo, Melissa Werner and Lois M. Christensen SAGE Open published online 16 May 2011 DOI: 10.1177/2158244011410324 The online version of this article can be found at:http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/05/02/2158244011410324

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Parallels in the Beliefs andWorks of Margaret Fuller and Carl Jung: Dreams, Literature, Spirituality, and Gender

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Jerry Aldridge1, Jennifer L. Kilgo1, Melissa Werner1, and Lois M. Christensen1

Abstract Margaret Fuller, the 19th-century feminist and Transcendentalist, has been compared with Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson,Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. The life and theories of Carl Jung, the 20th-century psychiatrist, have been compared with the works of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Jean Piaget, and Sabina Spielrein among others. However, no comparisons have been published concerning the beliefs and works of Fuller and Jung. The purpose of this research was to compare and contrast the beliefs andwritten works of Margaret Fuller and Carl Jung. Similarities and differences were reported among their ideologies. Similarities in their childhood and adult dreams, literary references, spiritual beliefs, and explorations of gender were described. Differences were reported, which included the focus of their writings and their ideas about who is to blame when things go wrong, and how to deal with theindividual daemon in each person was also explored. Special consideration was given to how closely their writings intersect. Specifically, the authors questioned whether Jung was inspired by the ideas and writings of Fuller. To answer this question, five possibilities were identified. Keywords education, moral and religious, psychoanalysis, sex and gender, social movements and activism, women’sstudies

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) influenced numerous feminists, writers, scholars, and social activists from the mid-19th century through today (Anthony, 1920; Barrett & Cullinan, 1992; Capper, 2007; Christensen, 2010; Kester-Shelton, 1996; Knight, 2010; Kunitz & Haycraft, 1938; Sinclair, 1965; Taylor, 1971). In both similar and different ways, Carl Jung (1875-1961) challenged many scholars,psychologists, psychiatrists, religious leaders, and literary critics beginning in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Campbell, 1949; Dourley, 1984, 1992; Edinger, 1985; Hall & Sharp, 2008; Hannah, 1976; McLynn, 1996; Sharp, 2009; von Franz, 1980). Fuller has been compared with other American authors as well as Transcendentalists from New England (Barrett & Cullinan, 1992; Cheever, 2007; Kunitz &Haycraft, 1938). Similarities and differences between the beliefs and written works of Jung and Freud have also been published. Others in the psychoanalytic tradition, such as Alfred Adler, have also been compared with Jung (Frey-Rohn, 1974; Kerr, 1993; McGuire, 1974). In the past, we have highlighted Jung’s beliefs about play, unity, and symbols related to Freidrich Froebel’s writings (Russell...