Foucauldian and post-Foucauldian theories of power in hybridization with the analytical psychology of Carl G. Jung

Abstract

Within the framework of the studies of the power and unconscious, the present article is proposed, based on the demonstration of its relevance, a hybridization of the theories of Foucaultians and Postfoucaultians with the Jungian analytical psychology. Three non-resolved fundamental dilemmas of these power theories are taken into consideration, which could be resolved with the integration of Jung’s contributions, resorting to the epistemology of Simondon’s ontogenesis as a bridge. Both share a wide epistemological affinity, in addition to the same criticisms: to Aristotelian atomism, to the theory of externalist adaptability, to substantialist energetism, to physiologisism, to psychoanalysis and certain semiotics. We clarify our ontological starting point: to coincidentia oppositorum or ontological relationism. He realizes the centrality of the unconscious in the disputes of power towards our times and the impact of not yet recognizing the completeness of his condition. We close with a first analytical map of the general dynamics of the psychic between the archetypal potential load of the unconscious and the modalities of contemporary power. We will give a transversal place to the question of resistances in the light of a new epistemological framework. Finally, we include an extra section where we expose a possible dialogue between Jungian analytical psychology and neurosciences.