ASPECTS OF LIFE IN C.G. JUNG: ITS FIRST AND SECOND HALVES
ASPECTS OF LIFE IN C.G. JUNG: ITS FIRST AND SECOND HALVES

Summary/Abstract: As Carl Gustav Jung emphasized, our life course allows us to perform a bi-partition with regard to it in a first and a second half; these segments are different from a physiological and psychological point of view by having distinct orientations, aspirations, ways of functioning and telos. Next to the “physics” (etymologic) of living there can be also emphasized its psychological aspects and we can conceptualise some meta-physical guidelines pointing to an existential-philosophical analyze of the anthropologic issue. In this paper we propose to debate and to nuance the aspects concerning the Jungian bipartition of human life, to detach some perspectives in a philosophical manner, to clarify some differentiation mainlines for the so different paradigms of existence’s first and second half. The result and the implications of this approach provide some statements and some enlightenment regarding our own existential course and which are fitted for a possible implementation towards self-realisation. Thus, is observed that the anthropos issue is continuously rewritable, being based on the heuristic feature of the interrogative process, on its openings and on its limitations as well. Accepting the limits and exploration of the openings is certainly a part of a process of inner maturation, both psychological and spiritual, that allows the deepening of the existential given, its elaboration, its grounding on rational bases that can substantiate the second part of life.

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