ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Carl Gustav Jung’s depth psychology as the analysis of unconscious archetypes in the process of individuation that he equated with self-education and achieving self-knowledge. Jung’s attention to signs, symbols and images as the means for the unconscious to express itself and to be learned from – in excess of the verbal expressions of the conscious mind – makes him an edusemiotician par excellence. Archetypes act as invisible signs that affect the human psyche. Archetypal dynamics partakes of Charles S. Peirce’s semiosis as the transformation of signs grounded in the logic of the included third. The core of the ethical problem, for Jung, was how to achieve the harmonious union of conscious and unconscious elements in the psyche. The integration of the Shadow archetype becomes part and parcel of education and therapy alike. Semiotic subjectivity is by its very nature holistic, integrated – and edusemiotics represents a mode of holistic education embracing a novel pedagogy of the unconscious that blends with a therapeutic dimension and heals the split produced by narrow rationality.
