This new edition represents a wide-ranging and up to date critical introduction to the psychology of Carl Jung, one of the founders of psychoanalysis. Including two new essays and thorough revisions of most of the original chapters, it constitutes a radical new assessment of his legacy. Andrew Samuels's introduction succinctly articulates the challenges facing the Jungian community. The fifteen essays set Jung in the context of his own time, outline the current practice and theory of Jungian psychology and show how Jungians continue to question and evolve his thinking and apply it to aspects of modern culture and psychoanalysis. The volume includes a full chronology of Jung's life and work, extensively revised and up to date bibliographies, a case study and a glossary. It is an indispensable reference tool for both students and specialists, written by an international team of Jungian analysts and scholars from various disciplines.
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"The backgrounds of the essayists are diverse, as are their views regarding Carl Jung and his work...Young-Eisendrath's essay on Jung and Buddhism is invaluable, as is Dawson's on literary criticism. Summing up: Recommended."
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This new edition represents a wide-ranging and up to date critical introduction to the psychology of Carl Jung, one of the founders of psychoanalysis. Including two new essays and thorough revisions of most of the original chapters, it constitutes a radical new assessment of his legacy.
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While the work of Carl Gustav Jung is of immense importance to the development of psychological and philosophical thought in the 20th century, the written works of Jung and many of his followers are framed within the historical context of the first half of the century. In more recent years, many volumes have been published to explain Jungian thought, often to popularize it, occasionally to excoriate it. This collection of essays edited by Polly Young Eisendrath and Terence Dawson is an excellent critical introduction to Jungian and post-Jungian thought from a 21st century perspective. While very readable, the essays are scholarly and avoid oversimplifying the ideas to make them more popularly palatable. In addition to being a useful introduction, the depth of the essays should make them interesting even to readers who are familiar with Jung and his work.
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This book is really awful.,
This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Jung (Cambridge Companions) (Paperback)
Most of this book can be summed up by the following exchange between Calvin and Hobbes:
Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. Calvin: I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. Calvin: With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report? Hobbes: "The dynamics of interbeing and monological imperatives in Dick and Jane: A study in psychic transrelational gender modes." Calvin: Academia, here I come! Most of the essays in this book were filled with psycho-babble so bad I found myself laughing in unbelief and thinking of the above Calvin and Hobbes comic. There were a few good essays in the book: "New developments in the post-Jungian field" by Andrew Samuels The three case studies using different Jungian approaches were good. "Me and my anima" by Elio Frattaroli was amusing. "Jung and religion: the opposing self" by Ann Belford Ulanov was excellent. I found myself doubting my entire interest in Jung near the end of this book. The last essay, Ulanov's article on Jung and religion, was so good, however, that I decided to continue my study of Jung. This is definitely a book you should borrow from the library. Don't waste your time buying it.
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