Kant’s Categories and Jung’s Types as Perspectival Maps To Stimulate Insight in a Counseling Session

Stephen R Palmquist

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Abstract

After coining the term “philopsychy” to describe a “soul-loving” approach to philosophical practice, especially when it welcomes a creative synthesis of philosophy and psychology, this article identifies a system of geometrical figures (or “maps”) that can be used to stimulate reflection on various types of perspectival differences. The maps are part of the author’s previously established mapping methodology, known as the Geometry of Logic. As an illustration of how philosophy can influence the development of psychology, Immanuel Kant’s table of twelve categories and Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types are shown to share a common logical structure. Just as Kant proposes four basic categories, each expressed in termsof three subordinate categories, Jung proposes four basic person­ality functions, each having three possible manifestations. The concluding section presents four scenarios illustrating how such maps can be used in philosophical counseling sessions to stimulate philopsychic insight.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-22
Number of pages22
JournalInternational Journal of Philosophical Practice
Volume3
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005

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