ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a dialectical synthesis of the psychoanalytic perspectives on pale criminality the author has been developing. Carl Jung provided the psychological equivalent of Hegel's "synthesis", terming it the "transcendent function", which designates the mutual interaction and influence exerted between the ego and the Self in the course of individuation. One danger in dialectics is for the synthesis to be reached without the subject undergoing the long, demanding, hermeneutic detour required in which what is familiar conjoins with what is foreign, and both positions are redressed and overcome. Dialectics must not be allowed to dissolve into a feeble and facile eclecticism. Furthermore, there will never be one simple or single synthesis, but a plurality and polysemy of possible syntheses. From confluence and clashes, new modes of being and behaving emerge, pointing, perhaps, towards a new reign of Truth and a new foundation in the wake of destruction, as Heidegger prophesied.
