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Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians, and Anti-Semitism

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For many years there have been accusations that the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung was personally and professionally anti-Semitic. Lingering Shadows is a definitive sourcebook on this thorny subject. Included are papers from a groundbreaking conference co-sponsored by the C.G. Jung Foundation and held in New York City in 1989, papers from a workshop on Jung and anti-Semitism from the Eleventh International Congress for Analytical Psychology in Paris in 1989 and previously published articles of significance. The scope of the anthology ranges from essays with a historical perspective to those focusing more on a psychological analysis of the events, motivations, and dynamics of Jungian thought in relationship to anti-Semetism and National Socialism. What is revealed in this wide-ranging survey is how complex this relationship is, and how too many have passed judgment, either defensively or offensively, without sufficient information. Lingering Shadows provides straightforward facts and considered scholarly opinion that willl clarify this rumor-plagued area of depth psychology. The book also includes a bibliographic essay covering important publications on the topic and a survey of significant events and relevant quotations from Jung, Freud, and others.

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