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Cult Fictions: C.G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology Paperback - 1998

by Sonu Shamdasani

An internationally known Jung scholar presents a sober, accurate, and revealing account of the history of the Jungian movement and an agenda for the evaluation of analytical psychology today.


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Controversial claims that C.G. Jung, founder of analytical psychology, was a charlatan and a self-appointed demi-god have recently brought his legacy under renewed scrutiny. The basis of the attack on Jung is a previously unknown text, said to be Jung's inaugural address at the founding of his 'cult', otherwise known as the Psychological Club, in Zurich in 1916. It is claimed that this cult is alive and well in Jungian psychology as it is practised today, in a movement which continues to masquerade as a genuine professional discipline, whilst selling false dreams of spiritual redemption.
In Cult Fictions, leading Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani looks into the evidence for such claims and draws on previously unpublished documents to show that they are fallacious. This accurate and revealing account of the history of the Jungian movement, from the founding of the Psychological Club to the reformulation of Jung's approach by his followers, establishes a fresh agenda for the historical evaluation of analytical psychology today.

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  • Title Cult Fictions: C.G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology
  • Author Sonu Shamdasani
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First American E
  • Pages 136
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, London
  • Date 1998-03-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780415186148 / 0415186145
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.42 x 5.47 x 0.48 in (21.39 x 13.89 x 1.22 cm)
  • Reading level 1430
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-32830
  • Dewey Decimal Code 150.195

About the author

Sonu Shamdasani is an historian of psychology, and currently a research fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. He is the editor of several books, including Jung's seminar The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga.

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