ABSTRACT
This chapter explores Jungian and post-Jungian writing on ethics, morality, conscience and integrity to establish the basics of an ethic. Solomon and Robinson both highlight Jungs distinction between morality and ethics; he saw the former as belonging to the collective social norms where ethical struggle involves separating from received wisdom in order to form a deeper ethical attitude. Robinson suggests that Jungs approach is superior for addressing the needs of the current moral climate. Robinson places the Jungian conscience as moving between the extremes of the objectification of human experience on one hand leading to alienation and reductionism, and subjectivism on the other, in which the individualised experience ceases to search for commonality with others. Beebe critiques depth psychology for its reluctance to engage with the wider debates of moral psychology, which he finds highly pertinent to the theory and practice of Jungian analysis: Moral psychology has rebounded with a new insistence on psychological realism in philosophical discourse about morality.
