Three Dimensions of Living Forms – brief look into parallels between Adolf Portmann and C.G. Jung

• Authors: Ivana Ryška Vajdová

Abstracts

EN

This article shows correlation between two prominent thinkers of the 20th century, a biologist Adolf Portmann and a psychiatrist C.G. Jung. It shows a traditional problem of the biology and science in general, i.e. understanding its subject through a prism of function, regardless its meaning. Adolf Portmann, Swiss biologist and anthropologist, refers to many examples from the animal kingdom proving that function as an interpretative principle is not fully applicable. Portmann, similarly to Jung, distinguishes three primary levels of his subject, each of them has their own aims and values. At the same time, he emphasises that each of these levels can be comprehended only when regarded as a unity.

Keywords

EN

Living forms; C.G.Jung; A. Portmann; Aesthetics of Nature; Self-expression; Inwardness

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Międzynarodowych i Edukacji Humanum
• Journal: Społeczeństwo i Edukacja. Międzynarodowe Studia Humanistyczne
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 4(23)
• Pages: 85-92

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Ivana Ryška Vajdová

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2157844