ABSTRACT
Following some personal comments on my appreciation for the work of Wolfgang Giegerich, the chapter examines Giegerich’s use of the myth of Thor and the giant Utgard Loki to approach the question of whether and how Giegerich’s Hegelian interpretation of Jung’s system runs the risk of settling into stasis. The paper raises this question by disputing Giegerich’s contention that Thor experiences the universal in the particularity of Utgard Loki’s cat in the myth. This argument is framed in contrast to Giegerich’s dynamic reading of the Artemis and Actaion myth, which concludes The Soul’s Logical Life. The two myths, while intended to frame the book’s argument, may point to a fundamental tension in Giegerich’s work that Jung might have resisted.
