Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925 (Bollingen Series) [Hardcover]

C. G. Jung (Author), William McGuire (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Series: Bollingen Series | Publication Date: November 1989

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr (November 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0691098972
• ISBN-13: 978-0691098975
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,521,440 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology (also known as Jungian psychology). Jung's radical approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in counter-cultural movements across the globe. Jung is considered as the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth. His many major works include "Analytic Psychology: Its Theory and Practice," "Man and His Symbols," "Memories, Dreams, Reflections," "The Collected Works of Carl G. Jung," and "The Red Book."

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Deconstructing Jung, November 2, 2001

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This review is from: Analytical Psychology (Paperback)

Deconstructing Jung.
This book derives from a written transcript of a seminar held about the time Jung broke with Freud and had a psychotic episode ("nervous breakdown" is how you usually hear about it). I came to this book after years of reading many of Jung's published works (beginning with his "Autobiography" & "Man and His Symbols" and later several of his Collected Works: "Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious," "Psychology and Alchemy," "Alchemical Studies," "Aion;" as well as the essays collected in "Modern Man in Search of a Soul" and Vincent Brome's fine biography, "Jung: Man and Myth").

What I like about the present book is this: Jung's books are not easy to understand (he's an alchemist, remember). And many of his followers hollowly parrot what they understood the Master to have said. And his god-like status as a Western shaman is an awesome subcultural projection to overcome-yet one must do so to go beyond the myth and encounter one's own destiny, above and beyond merely imitating Jung's life or blindly following his erstwhile "system." (You know, I have seldom had a dream in four parts, making it a quadraplicity, yet my dreams are not incomplete.) This book reveals Jung the man working on himself and dealing with his own problems: the break with Freud, his psychotic episode, women/anima problems. The most notable aspect of this seminar is the time dwelt on anima problems, specifically Rider Haggard's novel, "She," the prototypical story of the anima or inner-woman-as-soul that every man must somehow wrestle (whether via Jung's understanding or some other). Jung only alludes to this novel in his published books; here, it is discussed in considerable detail, revealing insights as well as shortcomings in Jung's thought. In many ways, much of the material here was familiar from other books. Yet it is the personal, intimate quality of Jung-the-man's seminar that breathed life into otherwise dusty, grey concepts that appealed to me here. I was led to this book via Brome's biography (above), who also recommended Jung's earlier book, "Psychology of the Unconsious" as the version of these researches published by Jung himself in his lifetime.

5.0 out of 5 stars Jung: clarity and personal, October 30, 2007

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This review is from: Analytical Psychology (Paperback)

This compilation of Jung's lectures is conversational and personal which allowed this reader to feel as though I were sitting with him, just talking. His stories are interesting as always, and I highly recommend this book as a path to getting to know Jung and his thoughts.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the better seminars, June 1, 2000

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Craig Chalquist, PhD, author of TERRAPSYCHOLO... (Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925 (Bollingen Series) (Hardcover)

Many analytic concepts presented and illustrated here, including a brief history of Jung's own development from his own perspective. This, the Zarathustra, and the Dream seminars work well together.