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What in the World Is the

Soul?

(Soul & Psyche)Robert Neuwoehner PhD

So, what in the world is the Soul?What does the word mean?

How do we use “soul” in ordinary speech?

soul music • soul food • heart and soul • body and soul

eternal soul • save one’s soul • lose one’s soul

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32When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt

at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my

brother would not have died.” 33When Jesus saw her

weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he

was [angry and agitated].... 35Jesus [broke down in tears].

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soul n. 1. The rational, emotional, and

volitional faculties in man, conceived of as

forming an entity distinct from the body.

2. Theol. a. The divine principle of life in man.

b. The moral or spiritual part of man as related

to God, considered as surviving death and liable

to joy or misery in a future state....

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body — soul — spirit

soma — psyche — pneuma

Soul = psyche

Psychology is the study of the soul.

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Freudian psychology (psychoanalysis)

Depth psychologyTranspersonal psychology

Integral psychology

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Analytical Psychology

Theory and practice developed by

C. G. Jung

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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

• Born July 26, 1875, into a family of pastors and doctors

• Raised in Basel, lived his adult/professional life in Zurich• Began his professional career in a psychiatric hospital

• Became an early leader in the psychoanalytic movement

• Split with Freud in 1912-13• Entered into a deep engagement with his own psyche

• A therapist, professor, author, theorist, and scholar

• Expertise in religious studies, mythology, folklore …

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Noteworthy Publications

Psychology of the Unconscious

Psychological TypesModern Man in Search of a Soul

Psychology and Religion

Answer to JobThe Undiscovered Self

Alchemical Studies

Man and His Symbols

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Familiar Jungian Concepts

complex

introvert–extravert (psychological types, Myers-Briggs/MBTI)

shadow

collective unconscious

archetypes

synchronicity

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