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Yale University EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library School of Medicine 1977 Jung, Heidegger and the symbolism of authenticity John J. Boronow Yale University Follow this and additional works at:http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ymtdl Recommended Citation Boronow, John J., "Jung, Heidegger and the symbolism of authenticity" (1977).Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library. 2413. http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ymtdl/2413 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Medicine at EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. It has been accepted for inclusion in Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library by an authorized administrator of EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. For more information, please [email protected]. YALE MEDICAL LIBRARY 3 9002 08676 3175 medical library Permission for photocopying or microfilming of 11 J o m . Me t ci ^er tllP \\j m kn I C£ /A Uthej/^cOtKj 11 ,-^nri wn r,-j- (TITLE OF THESIS) for the purpose of Individual scholarly consultation or reference Is hereby granted by the author. This permission is not to be interpreted as affect¬ ing publication of this work or otherwise placing it in the public domain, and the author reserves all rights of ownership guaranteed under common law protection of unpublished manuscripts. Dl_ jo\rc>i\ov^ Author / / IX- / / ' Date JUNG f HEIDEGC?ER AND THE SYMBOLISM OF AUTHENTICITY by John J, Boronow Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Psychiatry YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ir partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF MEDICINE 1977 . Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Arcadia Fund https://archive.org/details/jungheideggersymOOboro PREFACE It seems the least I can do to mollify ruffled opin¬ ions is to offer a word of explanation as to how a medical student comes to write an essay in philosophy for his medical school thesis. Without disclosing the argument that is to follow in t.he text, perhaps I can nevertheless prepare the way a bit by ashing the question, "What should such an exer¬ cise as a thesis accomplish for the student?" My answer, and admittedly not the only possibility, was as follows: the the¬ sis should provide an opportunity to return to certain fun¬ damentals and explore a field at a depth which the student may not again enjoy for some time. Again and again my class¬ mates and I were told, "Do not rush so fast to master the clinical; you have your whole lifetime to do that. Take ad¬ vantage of your studenthood and immerse yourself in thinking. You may never again get such a golden chanceS" And so I took my advisors at their word, returning for nearly a year "to the books." Only my books were not biochemistry, statistics, neurophysiology, or even psychometrics. For it seemed to me that if we indeed were to "return to the basic sciences," then a thought! 1 analysis would reveal rhat philosophy was the proper basic science of psychoanalysis, my chosen medical specialty. My text will defend this point of view in detail; I offer it now without further comment by way of setting the tone , I merely wish to put on record that I see no radical - i -
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