Psyche and Symbol: A Selection from the Writings of C. G. Jung

Carl Gustav Jung

Doubleday, 1958 - Psychology - 363 pages

"The archetypes of human experience which derive from man's deepest unconscious mind and reveal themselves in the universal symbols of art and religion as well as in the individual symbolic creations of particular people are, for C. G. Jung, the key to the cure of souls, the cornerstone of his therapeutic work. The function and origin of symbols are explained in this volume. The reader will find here not only a general orientation to Jung's point of view in its most recent formulation, but extensive studies of the symbolic process and its integrating function in human psychology as it is reflected in the characteristic spiritual products of Europe and Asia'--

Contents

• Aion Contributions: 1
• The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tales: 61
• The Psychology of the Child Archetype: 113

About the author

Carl Gustav Jung was born in Switzerland on July 26, 1875. He originally set out to study archaeology, but switched to medicine and began practicing psychiatry in Basel after receiving his degree from the University of Basel in 1902. He became one of the most famous of modern psychologists and psychiatrists. Jung first met Sigmund Freud in 1907 when he became his foremost associate and disciple. The break came with the publication of Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious (1912), which did not follow Freud's theories of the libido and the unconscious. Jung eventually rejected Freud's system of psychoanalysis for his own "analytic psychology." This emphasizes present conflicts rather than those from childhood; it also takes into account the conflict arising from what Jung called the "collective unconscious"---evolutionary and cultural factors determining individual development. Jung invented the association word test and contributed the word complex to psychology, and first described the "introvert" and "extrovert" types. His interest in the human psyche, past and present, led him to study mythology, alchemy, oriental religions and philosophies, and traditional peoples. Later he became interested in parapsychology and the occult. He thought that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) might be a psychological projection of modern people's anxieties. He wrote several books including Studies in Word Association, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, and Psychology and Alchemy. He died on June 6, 1961 after a short illness.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Psyche and Symbol: A Selection from the Writings of C. G. Jung; Anchor Books; Anchor original; Volume 136 of Doubleday anchor books; Doubleday anchor original
• Author: Carl Gustav Jung
• Publisher: Doubleday, 1958
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jan 22, 2009
• ISBN: 0385093497, 9780385093491
• Length: 363 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / General; Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis