Books by R. F. C. Hull

"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.

The psychological and religious implications of Alchemy occupied Jung during the last thirty years of his life. This collection of five essays, with numerous illustrations, traces his developing interest in alchemy from 1929 on and may be read both as a useful introduction and as a valuable supplement to his longer works on the subject, "Psychology and Alchemy," "Aion," and the monumental "Mysterium Coniuctionis."

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 Fairy tales" (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).

In exploring the manifestations of human spiritual experience both in the imaginative activities of the individual and in the formation of mythologies and of religious symbolism in various cultures, C. G. Jung laid the groundwork for a psychology of the spirit. The excerpts here illuminate the concept of the unconscious, the central pillar of his work, and display ample evidence of the spontaneous spiritual and religious activities of the human mind. This compact volume will serve as an ideal introduction to Jung's basic concepts. Part I of this book, "On the Nature and Functioning of the Psyche," contains material from four works: "Symbols of Transformation," "On the Nature of the Psyche," "The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious," and "Psychological Types." Also included in Part I are "Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious" and "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype." Part II, "On Pathology and Therapy," includes "On the Nature of Dreams," "On the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia," and selections from "Psychology of the Transference." In Part III appear "Introduction to the Religious and Psychological Problems of Alchemy" and two sections of "Psychology and Religion." Part IV, called "On Human Development," consists of the essay "Marriage as a Psychological Relationship."

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

Beginning with Jung's 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

In the course of his long medical practice he reflected deeply on human nature and human problems, and his prolific writings bear witness to his extraordinary wisdom and insight.

A collection of journalistic interviews which span Jung's lifetime. This book captures his personality and spirit in more than 50 accounts of talks and meetings with him. They range from transcripts of interviews for radio, television, and film to memoirs written by notable personalities.

A collection of journalistic interviews which span Jung's lifetime. This book captures his personality and spirit in more than 50 accounts of talks and meetings with him. They range from transcripts of interviews for radio, television, and film to memoirs written by notable personalities.

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."

While Jung's main researches centered on the subject of individuation as an adult ideal, he had also a unique contribution to make to the psychology of childhood and went far in applying modern analytical concepts to educational theory and practice. The present volume is a collection of eight papers in this field.

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.

The second volume of the Bollingen collected works contains papers by Jung (and colleagues) on word association experiments, including a paper on "The Association Method", as well as papers on psychophysical researches relating to the association research.

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.

An exceptionally comprehensive index by paragraph number. Certain subjects are treated in separate sub-indexes within the general Index. These include alchemy, animals, the Bible, colors, Freud, Jung, and numbers.

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."

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

The first of Erich Neumanns works to be translated into English, this eloquent book draws on a full range of world mythology to show that individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as has human consciousness as a whole. Neumann, one of Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right, shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, or tail-eating serpent. The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, Great Mother, Separation of the World Parents, Birth of the Hero, Slaying of the Dragon, Rescue of the Captive, and Transformation and Deification of the Hero. Throughout the sequence the Hero is the evolving ego consciousness.

"The Practice of Psychotherapy" brings together Jung's essays on general questions of analytic therapy and dream analysis. It also contains his profoundly interesting parallel between the transference phenomena and alchemical processes.

In this volume are collected Jung's most important papers on psychotherapy. Part I brings together essays on general questions of analytical therapy, while in Part II are grouped studies of the specific subjects of abreaction, dream analysis, and the transference. Part III "The Psychology of the Transference, " is an authoritative statement on the central problem of the analytical opus. In this section, which is illustrated with many fascinating woodcuts taken form alchemical works, Jung draws a close parallel between the modern psychotherapeutic process and the symbolical pictures in a sixteenth-century text, the Rosarium Philosophorum.

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."

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.

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.

Because of his consideration on many literary works, Classical, Oriental, and Western, Symbols of Transformation has a particular interest for students of literature.

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.

Nine essays, written between 1922 and 1941, on Paracelsus, Freud, Picasso, the sinologist Richard Wilhelm, Joyce's Ulysses, artistic creativity generally, and the source of artistic creativity in archetypal structures.

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).

This volume is a miscellany of writings that Jung published after the Collected Works had been planned, minor and fugitive works that he wished to assign to a special volume, and early writings that came to light in the course of research.

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".

Jung's only extended work in the field of parapsychology aims, on the one hand, to incorporate the findings of "extrasensory perception" (ESP) research into a general scientific point of view and, on the other, to ascertain the nature of the psychic factor in such phenomena. Together with a wealth of historical and contemporary material on "synchronicity," Jung describes an astrological experiment conducted to test his theory.

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.

This classic work, written by one of the world's greatest psychiatrists, emphasizes the necessity of self-knowledge to counteract the unconscious forces responsible for contemporary social and political crises. Reissue.