Journal of Emerging Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities

Recasting the hierarchy of needs with an Islamic approach: Explaining the journey beyond self-actualization

The human quest of becoming what one is capable of and even exceeding the limits of this ego-centered existence is one of the concerns in philosophical, psychological, and theological traditions. Among Western approaches of psychology, this quest of becoming is found in Abraham Maslow’s theory of self-actualization, wh...

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Practice of Self-Dehumanization

This article examines a context that is critical for understanding contemporary transformations in socio-cultural reality, with a particular focus on broadly understood educational practice. Specifically, it addresses dehumanization, and more precisely, the variant which may be called self-dehumanization. The analysis...

The core of Analytical Psychology: A Theory of a Universal Process of Transformation 1

There is confusion around the definition of the term archetype with highly problematic and contradictory conceptualizations continued to the present day. As a solution for this problem the author argues that Jung‘s conceptualization of archetype theory is not one coherent theory, but contains four different theories...

THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF JUNG TO PSYCHOANALYSIS

At the beginning of its development, philosophy brought together, in its reflective reckoning, a series of other areas of knowledge, which in modern times gradually came to have epistemological autonomy. Psychology is one of those. This article seeks to analyze the relationship of elements present in Jung's theory of t...

The Path of Existence: Person against Science?

The polemic against science and scientific rationality is quite often conducted under the banners of the “person”, “personhood”, and the “whole human being”. Among all twentieth-century philosophical movements of this kind, existentialism was distinguished by the greatest radicalism. An analysis of its diverse versions...