Books by Carl G. Jung

"Aion," originally published in German in 1951, is one of the major works of Jung's later years. The central theme of the volume is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the Self, whose traditional historical equivalent is the figure of Christ. Jung demonstrates his thesis by an investigation of the Allegoria Christi, especially the fish symbol, but also of Gnostic and alchemical symbolism, which he treat as phenomena of cultural assimilation. The first four chapters, on the ego, the shadow, and the anima and animus, provide a valuable summation of these fundamental concepts in Jung's system of psychology.

"Aion," originally published in German in 1951, is one of the major works of Jung's later years. The central theme of the volume is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the Self, whose traditional historical equivalent is the figure of Christ. Jung demonstrates his thesis by an investigation of the Allegoria Christi, especially the fish symbol, but also of Gnostic and alchemical symbolism, which he treat as phenomena of cultural assimilation. The first four chapters, on the ego, the shadow, and the anima and animus, provide a valuable summation of these fundamental concepts in Jung's system of psychology.

This is one of a number of major works which Jung wrote during his seventies that was concerned with the relationship between psychology, alchemy and religion. He is particularly concerned in this volume with the rise of Christianity and with the figure of Christ.

For C. G. Jung, 1925 was a watershed year. He turned fifty, visited the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and the tribesmen of East Africa, published his first book on the principles of analytical psychology meant for the lay public, and gave the first of his formal seminars in English. The seminar, conducted in weekly meetings during the spring and summer, began with a notably personal account of the development of his thinking from 1896 up to his break with Freud in 1912. It moved on to discussions of the basic tenets of analytical psychology--the collective unconscious, typology, the archetypes, and the anima/animus theory. In the elucidation of that theory, Jung analyzed in detail the symbolism in Rider Haggard's She and other novels. Besides these literary paradigms, he made use of case material, examples in the fine arts, and diagrams.

Jung's important late essay, a significant statement of his religious position.

Includes: "Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious"(1934/1935); "The Concept of the Collective Unconscious" (1936); "Concerning the Archetypes, with Special Reference to the Anima Concept" (1936/1954); "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype" (1938/1954); "Concerning Rebirth (1940/1950); "The Psychology of the Child Archetype" (1940); "The Psychological Aspects of the Kore" (1941); "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales" (1945/1948); "On the Psychology of the Trickster-Figure" (1945); "Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation" (1939); "A Study in the Process of Individuation" (1934/1950; "Concerning Mandala Symbolism" (1950); Appendix: Mandalas" (1955).

Extracted from Volumes 6, 7, 9, Parts I and II, 10, and 17 of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG. This collection offers a range of articles and extracts from Jung's writings on marriage, Eros, the mother, the maiden, and the anima/animus concept. In the absence of any single formal statement by Jung on the psychology of women, this work conveys his views on the feminine and on topics that are intrinsic or related.

Presents selected writings for Jung's major studies on the nature and functioning of the human psyche.

Beginning with Jungs earliest correspondence to associates of the psychoanalytic period and ending shortly before his death, the 935 letters selected for these two volumes offer a running commentary on his creativity. The recipients of the letters include Mircea Eliade, Sigmund Freud, Esther Harding, James Joyce, Karl Kernyi, Erich Neumann, Maud Oakes, Herbert Read, Upton Sinclair, and Father Victor White. "Extraordinarily valuable.... Whether writing a disquisition on an obscure point of theology to Father Victor White or advice to an anonymous correspondent who wondered whether she should commit suicide...Jung commits himself entirely to the question and to the moment.... [The] Letters are indispensable and a beautiful production."--James Olney, The New Republic "What [Jung] offers from the furnace of his mind is near enough to that Philosopher's Stone sought by his old friends the alchemists to hold us enchanted through unnumbered re-readings."--Robertson Davies, The New York Times Book Review

Essays bearing on the contemporary scene and on the relationship of the individual to society, including papers written during the 1920s and 1930s focusing on the upheaval in Germany, and two major works of Jung's last years, "The Undiscovered Self" and "Flying Saucers."

Early lectures of Carl Jung, presented to a medical school fraternity in 1895. They convey youthful exuberance and hint at later themes in his work.

Dr. Jung has made a unique contribution to the psychology of childhood in this collection of eight papers and has gone far in applying modern analytical concepts to educational theory and practice. He has repeatedly underlined the overwhelming importance of parents and teachers in the genesis of the intellectual, feeling, and emotional disorders of childhood. Three lectures on "Analytical Psychology and Education" expounds his views on this subject. This volume also contains essays on the psychic conflicts in the child, gifted children, and the significance of the unconscious in education, and a stimulating paper on "Marriage as a Psychological Relationship." Finally the essay giving the present volume its title links together the problems of child development and individuation.

This volume presents the entire text of the transcript of one of Jung's unpublished seminars, given in English in Zurich to a small class of students. Until now the transcripts of these seminars, in which Jung expounded his views on psychology and his analytical methods, as well as his ideas on society, the individual, religion, and a variety of other topics, have been circulated only privately, to a restricted group.

Extracted from Volumes 4, 8, 12, and 16 of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG. Includes "The Analysis of Dreams," "On the Significance of Number Dreams," "General Aspects of Dream Psychology," "On the Nature of Dreams," "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy," and "The Practical use of Dream-Analysis."

At 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.

A discussion of the psychological and philosophical implications of events in Germany during and immediately following the Nazi period. The essays--"The Fight with the Shadow," "Wotan," "Psychotherapy Today," "Psychotherapy and a Philosophy of Life," "After the Catastrophe," and an Epilogue--are extracted from Volumes 10 and 16 of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG.

Essays on a Science of Mythology is a cooperative work between C. Ker‚nyi, who has been called "the most psychological of mythologists," and C. G. Jung, who has been called "the most mythological of psychologists." Ker‚nyi contributes an essay on the Divine Child and one on the Kore (the Maiden), together with a substantial introduction and conclusion. Jung contributes a psychological commentary on each essay. Both men hoped, through their collaboration, to elevate the study of mythology to the status of a science. In "The Primordial Child in Primordial Times" Ker‚nyi treats the child- God as an enduring and significant figure in Greek, Norse, Finnish, Etruscan, and Judeo-Christian mythology. He discusses the Kore as Athena, Artemis, Hecate, and Demeter-Persephone, the mother-daughter of the Eleusinian mysteries. Jung speaks of the Divine Child and the Maiden as living psychological realities that provide continuing meaning in people's lives. The investigations of C. Ker‚nyi are continued in a later study, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter (Princeton).

This volume presents the essentials of Jung's thought in his own words. To familiarize readers with the ideas for which Jung is best known, the British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Storr has selected extracts from Jung's writings that pinpoint his many original contributions and relate the development of his thought to his biography. Dr. Storr has prefaced each extract with explanatory notes. These notes link the extracts and, with Dr. Storr's introduction, they show the progress and coherence of Jung's ideas, including such concepts as the collective unconscious, the archetypes, introversion and extraversion, individuation, and Jung's view of integration as the goal of the development of the personality.

This volume presents the essentials of Jung's thought in his own words. To familiarize readers with the ideas for which Jung is best known, the British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Storr has selected extracts from Jung's writings that pinpoint his many original contributions and relate the development of his thought to his biography. Dr. Storr has prefaced each extract with explanatory notes. These notes link the extracts, and with Dr. Storr's introduction, they show the progress and coherence of Jung's ideas, including such concepts as the collective unconscious, the archetypes, introversion and extroversion, individuation, and Jung's view of integration as the goal of the development of the personality.

"In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had their abode in the planets.... Even people who would never have thought that a religious problem could be a serious matter that concerned them personally are beginning to ask themselves fundamental questions. Under these circumstances it would not be at all surprising if those sections of the community who ask themselves nothing were visited by `visions, by a widespread myth seriously believed in by some and rejected as absurd by others."--C. G. Jung, in "Flying Saucers" Jungs primary concern in Flying Saucers is not with the reality or unreality of UFOs but with their psychic aspect. Rather than speculate about their possible nature and extraterrestrial origin as alleged spacecraft, he asks what it may signify that these phenomena, whether real or imagined, are seen in such numbers just at a time when humankind is menaced as never before in history. The UFOs represent, in Jung's phrase, "a modern myth."

This book includes selections from the volume of Jung's Collected Works entitled "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious". The four archetypes discussed are the Mother-Archetype, Rebirth, the phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales, and the psychology of the Trickster Figure.

This book gives the substance of Jung's published writings on Freud and psychoanalysis between 1906 and 1916, with two later papers. It covers the period of the enthusiastic collaboration between the two pioneers of psychology through the years when Jung's growing appreciation of religious experience and his criticism of Freud's emphasis on pathology led, with other differences, to his formal break with his mentor.

This abridged edition makes the Freud/Jung correspondence accessible to a general readership at a time of renewed critical and historical reevaluation of the documentary roots of modern psychoanalysis. This edition reproduces William McGuire's definitive introduction, but does not contain the critical apparatus of the original edition.

All the creative art psychotherapies (art, dance, music, drama, poetry) can trace their roots to C. G. Jung's early work on active imagination. Joan Chodorow here offers a collection of Jung's writings on active imagination, gathered together for the first time. Jung developed this concept between the years 1913 and 1916, following his break with Freud. During this time, he was disoriented and experienced intense inner turmoil he suffered from lethargy and fears, and his moods threatened to overwhelm him. Jung searched for a method to heal himself from within, and finally decided to engage with the impulses and images of his unconscious. It was through the rediscovery of the symbolic play of his childhood that Jung was able to reconnect with his creative spirit. In a 1925 seminar and again in his memoirs, he tells the remarkable story of his experiments during this time that led to his self-healing. Jung learned to develop an ongoing relationship with his lively creative spirit through the power of imagination and fantasies. He termed this therapeutic method "active imagination." This method is based on the natural healing function of the imagination, and its many expressions. Chodorow clearly presents the texts, and sets them in the proper context. She also interweaves her discussion of Jung's writings and ideas with contributions from Jungian authors and artists.

Encountering Jung presents selections from all the published works of C. G. Jung on subjects of continuing interest to contemporary readers, especially in the areas of psychology, spirituality, and personal growth. The texts have been chosen and presented by leading Jungian writers and analysts with the purpose of introducing Jung's thought to a new generation of readers.

C. G. Jung, son of a Swiss Reformed pastor, used his Christian background throughout his career to illuminate the psychological roots of all religions. Jung believed religion was a profound, psychological response to the unknown -- both the inner self and the outer worlds -- and he understood Christianity to be a profound meditation on the meaning of the life of Jesus of Nazareth within the context of Hebrew spirituality and the Biblical worldview. Murray Stein's introduction relates Jung's personal relationship with Christianity to his psychological views on religion in general, his hermeneutic of religious thought, and his therapeutic attitude toward Christianity. This volume includes extensive selections from "A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity, " "Christ as a Symbol of the Self, " from Aion, "Answer to Job, " letters to Father Vincent White from Letters, and many more.

Here collected for the first time are Jung's views on death and immortality, his writings often coinciding with the death of the most significant people in his life. The book shows many of the major themes running through his writings, including the relativity of space and time surrounding death, the link between transference and death, and the archetypes shared among the world's religions at the depths of the Self. The book includes selections from "On Resurrection," "The Soul and Death," "Concerning Rebirth," "Psychological Commentary on the Tibetan Book of the Dead" from the COLLECTED WORKS, "Letter to Pastor Pfafflin" from LETTERS, and "On Life After Death."

Nietzsche's infamous work Thus Spake Zarathustra is filled with a strange sense of religiosity that seems to run counter to the philosopher's usual polemics against religious faith. For some scholars, this book marks little but a mental decline in the great philosopher; for C. G. Jung, Zarathustra was an invaluable demonstration of the unconscious at work, one that illuminated both Nietzsche's psychology and spirituality and that of the modern world in general. The original two-volume edition of Jung's lively seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra has been an important source for specialists in depth psychology. This new abridged paperback edition allows interested readers to participate with Jung as he probes the underlying meaning of Nietzsche's great work. "Nietzsche is perhaps the first Western man to have experienced a psychological encounter with the Self.... [This] seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra ... [ is a] magisterial enterprise [that] demonstrates to any perceptive reader Jung's millennial magnitude."--Psychological Perspectives "A critical event in the history of the human spirit.... C. G. Jung throws new light on Nietzsche's psyche as well as on the condition of the German collective psyche during those fateful years of 1934 to 1939."--James Kirsch

Suggests a psychological theory of homosexuality based on the Jungian approach, and discusses the archetypes of the Masculine, Feminine, and Adrogyne.

This was Jung's last work of book length--the fruit of decades of study and reflection on alchemy against the background of his extensive analytical practice. It was his empirical discovery that certain key problems of modern man were prefigured in what the alchemists called their "art" or "procedure." Jung succeeds in showing that "the world of alchemical symbols definitely does not belong to the rubbish heap of the past but stands in a very real and living relationship to our most recent discoveries concerning the psychology of the unconscious."

As a young man growing up near Basel, Jung was fascinated and disturbed by tales of Nietzsches brilliance, eccentricity, and eventual decline into permanent psychosis. These volumes, the transcript of a previously unpublished private seminar, reveal the fruits of his initial curiosity: Nietzsches works, which he read as a student at the University of Basel, had moved him profoundly and had a lifelong influence on his thought. During the sessions the mature Jung spoke informally to members of his inner circle about a thinker whose works had not only overwhelmed him with the depth of their understanding of human nature but also provided the philosophical sources of many of his own psychological and metapsychological ideas. Above all, he demonstrated how the remarkable book Thus Spake Zarathustra illustrates both Nietzsche's genius and his neurotic and prepsychotic tendencies. Since there was at that time no thought of the seminar notes being published, Jung felt free to joke, to lash out at people and events that irritated or angered him, and to comment unreservedly on political, economic, and other public concerns of the time. This seminar and others, including the one recorded in Dream Analysis, were given in English in Zurich during the 1920s and 1930s.

Extracted from volume 8 of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG.
Includes the title essays and "On Psychic Energy."

The archetypes of human experience which derive from the 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. This volume explains the function and origin of these symbols. Here the reader will find not only a general orientation to Jung's point of view but extensive studies of the symbolic process and its integrating function in human psychology as it is reflected in the characteristic spiritual productions of Europe and Asia. Violet de Laszlo has selected for inclusion in Psyche and Symbol five selections from Aion: "The Ego," "The Shadow," "The Syzygy: Anima and Animus," "The Self," and "Christ, A Symbol of the Self." The book continues with "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tales," "The Psychology of the Child Archetype," and "Transformation Symbolism in the Mass." Also included are the foreword to the Cary Banes translation of the I Ching, two chapters from Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, "Psychological Commentary on The Tibetan Book of the Dead," and "Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower."

The first volume in "The Collected Works of C. G. Jung". includes: "On the Psychology of So-Called Occult Phenomena" (1902); "On Hysterical Misreading (1904); "Crytomnesia" (1905); "On Manic Mood Disorder" (1903); "A Case of Hysterical Stupor in a Prisoner in Detention" (1902); "On Simulated Insanity" (1903); "A Medical Opinion on a Case of Simulated Insanity" (1904); "A Third and Final Opinion on Two Contradictory Psychiatric Diagnoses" (1906); "On the Psychological Diagnosis of Facts" (1905).

Nine studies including "The Psychology of Dementia Praecox" and "The Content of the Psychoses."

The third volume of Jung's Collected Words contains his renowned monograph "On the Psychology of Dementia Praecox" (1907), described by A. A. Brill as indispensable for every student of psychiatry--"The work which firmly established Jung as a pioneer and scientific contributor to psychiatry." Also included are nine other papers in psychiatry, the earliest being "The Content of the Psychoses" written in 1908 and the latest being two papers written in 1956 and 1958, which embody Jung's conclusions after many years in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia.

One of the most important of Jung's longer works and probably the most famous of his books, "Psychological Types" appeared in German in 1921 after a "fallow period" of eight years during which Jung published little. In expounding his system of personality types Jung relied not so much on formal case data as on the countless impressions and experiences derived from the treatment of nervous illnesses, from intercourse with people of all social levels, "friend and foe alike," and form an analysis of his own psychological nature. The book is rich in material drawn from literature, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy. The extended chapters that give a general description of the types and definitions of Jung's principal psychological concepts are key documents in analytic psychology.

Jung's compact and vigorous exploration of "authentic religious function" in the unconscious.

Sixteen studies in religious phenomena, including psychology and religion and "Answer to Job."

The excerpts are selected and grouped thematically to introduce Jung's writings on issues and themes of contemporary interest.

In this volume Jung describes several clinical cases of double consciousness, Twilight states, and somnambulism, then details the case of an adolescent girl "psychic" who had visions and held séances which Jung attended in his student days. Also included is a lecture in which he surveys the history and psychology of spiritualistic phenomena in America and Europe. Finally, "The Psychological Foundations of Belief in Spirits" (1919) and "The Soul and Death" (1934) both clinically and philosophically illustrate Jung's continued interest in parapsychology.

Salt has been revered an pursued down through the ages and across cultures. These essays examine the alchemical, mythical, and imaginary meanings of the savory substance of psychology.

This ancient Taoist text was discovered by Richard Wilhelm, who saw it as a guide to the integration of personality.

Includes: "On Psychic Energy" (1928); "The Transcendent Function"; "A Review of the Complex Theory" (1934); "The Significance of Constitution and Heredity in Psychology" (1929; "Psychological Factors Determining Human Behavior" (1937); "Instinct and the Unconscious" (1919); "The Structure of the Psyche" (1927/1931); "On the Nature of the Psyche" (1947/1954); "General Aspects of Dream Psychology" (1916/1948); "On the Nature of Dreams"(1945/1948); "The Psychological Foundations of Belief in the Spirits" (1920/1948); "Spirit & Life" (1926); "Basic Postulates of Analytical Psychology" (1931); "Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung" (1928/1931); "The Real and the Surreal" (1933); "The Stages of Life" (1930-1931); "The Soul and Death" (1934); "Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle" (1952); "Appendix: On Synchronicity" (1951).

Includes: "Two Kinds of Thinking"; "The Miller Fantasies: Anamnesis"; "The Hymn of Creation"; "The Song of the Moth"; "The Concept of the Libido"; "The Transformation of the Libido"; "The Origin of the Hero"; "Symbols of the Mother and of Rebirth"; "The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother"; "The Dual Mother"; "The Sacrifice"; "Epilogue".

Anthropological and psychological analysis by Radin Kereny and Jung of the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebego Trickster cycle.

Includes: "On the Psychology of the Unconscious" (1917/1926/1943); "The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious" (1928); Appendices: "New Paths in Psychology" (1912); "The Structure of the Unconscious (1916)" (new versions, with variants, 1966).

Together for the first time in one paperback volume are two of Jungs major late works, in the version published in The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, as rendered by Jungs official translator. "The Undiscovered Self" (1957) integrates many of Jungs lifelong social and psychological concerns and addresses the uneasy relation between the individual and mass society. The survival of civilization, he maintains, depends on individual awareness of both the conscious and unconscious aspects of the human psyche. The exploration of the unconscious, in particular, leads to self-knowledge and with it recognition of the duality of human natureits potential for evil as well as for good. Jung believes that it is this self-knowledge that enables the individual to resist the collective power of mass society and the state and to cope with their possible threats. Jungs reflections on self-knowledge and the exploration of the unconscious carry over into his essay "Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams," completed shortly before his death in 1961. (It is the original version of his introduction to the symposium Man and His Symbols, conceived as a popular presentation of Jungian ideas.) Describing dreams as communications from the unconscious--as expressions of aspects of the individual that have been neglected or unrealized--Jung explains how the symbols that occur in dreams compensate for repressed emotions and intuitions. In a world dehumanized, in Jungs view, by scientific "progress" and the loss of emotional participation in natural events, symbols recall our original nature, its instincts and peculiar way of thinking. This essay brings together Jung's fully evolved thoughts on the analysis of dreams and the healing of the rift between consciousness and the unconscious, in the context of his system of psychology.

Emphasizes the necessity of self-knowledge to counteract the unconscious forces responsible for contemporary social and political crises.

Confirming that Jung's concern with Freudian psychoanalysis was a diversion in his intellectual development, these lectures, published here for the first time, anticipate his mature interest in empirical psychology, spiritualism, the occult and the metaphysical.