1. Describe core principles of constructivist and post-Kantian philosophy—including the limits of knowledge, mediation of experience, and the structuring role of the subject—and explain their relevance to depth psychological theory and clinical formulation.
2. Analyze the influence of Kant’s critical philosophy on Jung’s psychological framework, particularly in relation to archetypes, symbolic mediation, and the ethical implications of epistemic humility in clinical work.
3. Differentiate structural and constructivist models of psyche from contemporary Continental approaches emphasizing becoming, multiplicity, and desire, thereby expanding clinicians’ conceptual repertoire for understanding subjectivity and change.
4. Apply philosophical insights from contemporary thinkers to psychotherapeutic practice, especially regarding interpretation, ethical restraint, and the clinician’s responsibility when working with ambiguity, difference, and non-linear transformation.

Deleuze, G. (1994). Difference and repetition (P. Patton, Trans.). Columbia University Press. (Original work published 1968)

Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1983). Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (R. Hurley, M. Seem, & H. R. Lane, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press. (Original work published 1972)

Jung, C.G. (1968). The archetypes and the collective unconscious (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.; Vol. 9, Part 1). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1934–1954)

Kant, I. (1998). Critique of pure reason (P. Guyer & A. W. Wood, Trans.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1781)

Nietzsche, F. (2008). The birth of tragedy. Oxford University Press.

Ogden, T. (1997). Reverie and interpretation: Sensing something human. Jason Aronson.

Sartre, J. P. (2003). Being and nothingness (H. E. Barnes, Trans.; 2nd ed.). Routledge.

Žižek, S. (2006). The parallax view. MIT Press.

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