Romantic Metasubjectivity Through Schelling and Jung: Rethinking the Romantic Subject (Philosophy and Psychoanalysis)

__Romantic Metasubjectivity Through Schelling and Jung: Rethinking the Romantic Subject__ exploresthe remarkable intellectual isomorphism between the philosophy of Friedrich Schelling and Carl Jung’s analytical psychology in order to offer a crucial and original corrective to the "reflection theory" of subjectivity. Arguing that the reflection theory of the subject does not do justice to the full compass of Romantic thinking about the human being, __Romantic Metasubjectivity__ sees human identity as neither discursive aftereffect nor centred around a self-transparent "I" but rather as constellated around the centripetal force of what Novalis calls "The Self of one’s self." The author begins with a unique reading of Schelling’s early __Naturphilosophie__ as primal site rather than Freudian scene, thinking this site through his __Philosophical Inquiries Into the Nature of Human Freedom__ to __The Ages of the World__. Reading Jungian metapsychology and its core concepts as therapeutic amplifications of Schelling, the author articulates an intellectual counter-transference in which Schelling and Jung contemporise each other. The book then demonstrates how Romantic metasubjectivity operates in the libidinal matrix of Romantic poetry through readings of William Wordsworth’s __The Prelude__ and Percy Shelley’s __Prometheus Unbound__. The book concludes with a discussion of the hit TV series __Breaking Bad__ as a "case study" of the challenges Romantic metasubjectivity raises for...