Jung on MythologyAt least three major questions can be asked of myth: what is its subject matter? what is its origin? and what is its function? Theories of myth may differ on the answers they give to any of these questions, but more basically they may also differ on which of the questions they ask. C. G. Jung's theory is one of the few that purports to answer fully all three questions. This volume collects and organizes the key passages on myth by Jung himself and by some of the most prominent Jungian writers after him: Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz, and James Hillman. The book synthesizes the discovery of myth as a way of thinking, where it becomes a therapeutic tool providing an entrance to the unconscious. In the first selections, Jung begins to differentiate his theory from Freud's by asserting that there are fantasies and dreams of an "impersonal" nature that cannot be reduced to experiences in a person's past. Jung then asserts that the similarities among myths are the result of the projection of the collective rather than the personal unconscious onto the external world. Finally, he comes to the conclusion that myth originates and functions to satisfy the psychological need for contact with the unconscious--not merely to announce the existence of the unconscious, but to let us experience it. |
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Jung visāvis Freud on Myth | 49 |
From The Significance of the Father in the Destiny of | 55 |
The Origin of Myth | 61 |
From The Psychology of the Child Archetype | 67 |
Letter to Baroness Tinti 10 January 1936 | 73 |
From The Structure of the Psyche | 79 |
The Function of Myth | 85 |
From Symbols of the Mother and of Rebirth | 153 |
From The Dual Mother | 159 |
From On the Psychology of the Unconscious | 164 |
From The Conjunction | 170 |
From Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype | 176 |
From The Fight with the Shadow | 194 |
e Myth as Never Superseded | 210 |
From The Undiscovered Self Present and Future | 216 |
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| Title | Jung on Mythology Encountering Jung, Carl Gustav. - Jung Princeton paperbacks Selections, Carl Gustav Jung Works, Carl Gustav Jung |
| Author | C. G. Jung |
| Editor | Robert A. Segal |
| Contributor | Robert A. Segal |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0691017360, 9780691017365 |
| Length | 275 pages |
| Subjects | › › Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis Social Science / Folklore & Mythology |
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