In the decades after Jung’s death, only a handful of Jungian analysts have attempted to revise Jung’s psychology by identifying its essence and reevaluating it in light of that essence. One such analyst is Wolfgang Giegerich. Over two decades ago he published his acclaimed book, The Soul’s Logical Life, in which, building on the work of James Hillman, he argues that Jung’s foremost insight was into the reality of the soul, or the objective psyche. Giegerich maintains that Jung’s commitment to soul set him apart from his contemporaries and constitutes the distinctive essence of Jungian psychology. Stated in alchemical terms, soul is the philosophical gold of Jungian psychology.

This article provides an overview of Giegerich’s notion of soul and clarifies what he means by the soul’s “logical life.” It also examines how Jung failed to consistently conceive of soul in terms fitting for the modern discipline of psychology. Jung knew that psychology was incompatible with metaphysics, theology, and mysticism, and routinely denied that his psychology improperly incorporated the latter. But Giegerich shows that Jung, despite his disclaimers, too often used a conception of soul in which archetypes and the Self are conceived as transcendental and eternal realities. The author shows how this unresolved contradiction in Jung’s conception of soul has led to schisms within Jungian training institutes and how these schisms are an example of the soul’s logical life.

在荣格去世后的几十年里，只有少数荣格分析家试图通过识别荣格的本质并根据该本质重新评估荣格的心理来修正荣格的心理。Wolfgang Giegerich 就是这样一位分析师。二十多年前，他出版了广受好评的书《灵魂的逻辑生活》，其中，在詹姆斯·希尔曼 (James Hillman) 的著作的基础上，他认为荣格最重要的洞察力是对灵魂的现实或客观心理的洞察。吉格里奇认为荣格对灵魂的承诺使他与同时代的人区别开来，并构成了荣格心理学的独特本质。用炼金术的术语来说，灵魂是荣格心理学的哲学黄金。

本文概述了 Giegerich 的灵魂概念，并阐明了他所说的灵魂“逻辑生命”的含义。它还研究了荣格如何未能始终如一地以适合现代心理学学科的术语来构想灵魂。荣格知道心理学与形而上学、神学和神秘主义不相容，并经常否认他的心理学不恰当地将后者纳入其中。但是 Giegerich 表明，尽管荣格有免责声明，但他经常使用灵魂的概念，其中原型和自我被视为超验和永恒的现实。作者展示了荣格灵魂概念中这种未解决的矛盾如何导致荣格培训机构内部的分裂，以及这些分裂如何成为灵魂逻辑生活的一个例子。