ABSTRACT
C.G. Jung regarded science as a ‘tool’ without ‘boundaries’ which could help increase knowledge about an object. For Jung, each discipline needed to share its theoretical knowledge and methods with other disciplines. This underlies the idea of science as a unity in which disciplines keep their singularity. Science can be regarded as a global system in which each part can have exchanges, but the parts cannot be subordinated to the whole.
Throughout Jung’s work we can find the idea of a whole: science, psychology, and psyche are all systems that cannot be reduced to their parts. Armelle Line Peltier discusses the relation of Jung's holistic discourse about science and his practice of it. Two questions which are addressed: 1) Are Jung’s holistic thoughts about the elaboration of knowledge consistent with Jung’s Red Book experience? 2) Does The Red Book experience enable Jung to create a holistic methodology?
Peltier identifies three similarities and differences between Jung's holistic discourse and his way of elaborating knowledge via: (1) an analysis of Jung's discourse about science, psychology, and its methods; (2) an analysis of Jung’s practice of science (psychology) through The Red Book experience; and (3) a comparison within epistemological (anarchism) and systemic points of view.
