Vladimír Borecký

Vladimír Borecký

Vladimír Borecký (born December 6, 1941 in Prague ; † February 6, 2009 ) was a Czech philosopher and psychologist . He was a lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague.

Life

Borecký passed the Abitur in 1959 at the La Guardiov high school in Prague, then worked as a worker and from 1962 to 1970 as a firefighter. From 1965 he studied philosophy and psychology at the philosophical faculty of the Charles University . In 1970 he was hired as a clinical psychologist at the "Thomayer Hospital", where he worked until 1990. In 1975 he completed a distance learning course in psychology and received his doctorate in 1977. From 1991 he was employed as a specialist assistant at the chair of cultural studies at Charles University.

He devoted his dissertation, which he completed with Jan Patočka , to epistemological psychoanalysis by Gaston Bachelard . In his further scientific research he deals with the problems in the field of play (technology of the universe, psychodrama , cartomania ), comedy ( tribalism , clubism , table society) and ludism . Later he directed his field of research towards the roots of Czech psychotherapy and worked with Karel Slavoj Amerling , Jan Šimsa , Vilém Forster , Bohuslav Brouk and Jaroslav Stuchlík , among others . The philosophical orientation of his research is based on the fields of phenomenology and archetypal psychology of Carl Gustav Jung . In addition, he deals with the French school of figural structuralism by Bachelard in connection with the phenomenological imagination of Gilbert Durand .

Works

• Světy hraček, 1982
• Jaroslav Stuchlík (co-author Jan Vymětal), 1985
• K počátkům psychoterapie v Čechách, 1987
• Vykládací mystické karty Josefa Váchala , 1995
• Imaginace a kultura, 1996
• Zrcadlo obzvláštního (Z našich mašíblů), 1997
• Odvrácená tvář humoru, 1997