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Jung: A Biography Paperback – November 9, 2004

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This authoritative biography reveals the untold truth about Jung's secret work for the Allies during World War II, his controversial affair with one of his patients, and the contents of his private papers, as well as never before published photos.

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November 9, 2004
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6 x 1.4 x 9.25 inches
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0316159387
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"A remarkable biography of a remarkable French woman--the high priestess of existentialism and modern feminism. Deirdre Bair writes with an intimacy and vividness unique in modern American biography."

"Deirdre Bair's portrait of Simone de Beauvoir is at once intimate and authoritative, entertainingly readable and densely researched. She has amassed a vast amount of information without being tyrannized by it."

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (November 9, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 928 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316159387
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316159388
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.97 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.4 x 9.25 inches

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H. Alkimir

A page-turner, but...

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2006

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C.G. Jung spoke about his number one and number two personalites, one corresponding to his physical/outer life experiences and the other to his psychological/inner life experiences. Like some of the editorial reviews above, I found Bair's biography to be sorely lacking in coverage and understanding of this second and most important aspect of Jung's life and work. The following quote he used in Memories, Dreams, Reflections to describe someone else could just as easily be applied in this case:

"Without the psyche there would be neither knowledge nor insight. Yet nothing was ever said about the psyche. Everywhere it was tacitly taken for granted, and even when someone mentioned it...there was no real knowledge of it but only philosophical speculation which might just as easily take one turn as another. I could make neither head nor tail of this curious observation" (MDR,98).

Look up "psyche" in the index of Bair's biography and you'll make the following unbelievable discovery: it's not there. She has written a biography on psychology and somehow left out the psyche, its most essential aspect.

After reading Bair, I picked up Sonu Shamdasani's "Jung Stripped Bare By His Biographers, Even." Rather than containing a heavy dose of vitriol, it is a very level-headed overview of biographical writing in general as well as of many of the bios on Jung up to the current one under discussion. Shamdasani proceeds to attack this latest biography from his carefully laid foundations. Highly erudite and equally highly readable.

In the case that you do decide to read Bair's book, I would label Shamdasani's book a "must-read" as well. Some tout Bair's as an effective means of counteracting the transference that so often surrounds Jung, making him out to be a god, but in so doing she leaves out half the picture of the man--arguably the most important half. On top of this, Shamdasani raises some serious questions about Bair's treatment of and scholarship contained within her many pages on that which Jung himself claimed to be his less important half.

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Scott Jacobsen

To Spawn..

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2014

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A significant read if one is to understand Jung. Jung was brave enough to consciously (unconsciously) portray his Shadow for critics, skeptics and initiates to reflect upon. Jung was full of contradictions , some obvious hypocrisies ; yet it is the beauty of this paradox that gives veracity to his body of work. He practiced what he preached... He gave to us the notion that to be in this human experience is to live with, through and among the contradictions, hypocrisies and swim with these against the tide of the conscious collective to individuate. Not all salmon survive to spawn. Jung did !

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Alan H. Johnson

This is the most thoroughly research volume that I have ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2018

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This is the most thoroughly research volume that I have read on Jung. The book is well written and conveys a sense of intimate understanding of individuals and their interactions. One could not ask for a more complete biography.

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best biography

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2010

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I have consulted all the biographies of Carl Jung available in Spanish, and some of the existing in English, and this one is undoubtedly the best. I think it deserves 5 stars.
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(Spanish):Desde fines del siglo XIX el psicoanálisis ha venido a enriquecer el acervo de la psicología y de la psiquiatría con una serie de intuiciones geniales, en particular las referentes a los mecanismos de defensa del "yo". No obstante, su pretendido descubrimiento de las estructuras de la personalidad ha derivado en la creación de las más dispares teorías, útiles tan sólo en cuanto construcciones de modelos operacionales aptos para dibujar la intangible versatilidad psíquica, pero muy discutibles como inamovibles "verdades" científicas. Entre esos modelos especulativos el psicoanálisis freudiano ha resultado fructífero para operar sobre las neurosis en sociedades occidentales sexualmente reprimidas y existencialmente desorientadas como pudo serlo la multicultural Viena del imperio austríaco. El modelo junguiano de la psicología analítica, mucho más esotérico y simbólico, resulta en cambio más apto para operar sobre estructuras sociales predominantemente introspectivas y místicas, o para complementar ciencias como la antropología, la filología, y la historia de las culturas. A estos dos primigenios modelos -el freudiano y el junguiano- se fueron agregando otros en apreciable variedad, llegando hasta los modernos conductivo-conductuales que predominan actualmente en los ambientes más estrechamente ligados a la psiquiatría convencional. Lamentablemente, durante varias décadas aquellas dos escuelas psicoanalíticas primordiales sostuvieron una encarnizada batalla por el predominio ideológico. Batalla académica sembrada de golpes bajos, particularmente asestados por la "ortodoxia" freudiana a sus contrincantes junguianos. Enfrentamiento que, observado con el escepticismo de la distancia, encuentra su principal explicación en una cuestión absolutamente pedestre: la competencia por un mismo "mercado" psicoanalizable. Mercado que ha sido particularmente importante en los EE.UU. -el país más rico del mundo, lo que lo vuelve explicable-, y, paradojalmente también en el Río de la Plata, al sur de las Américas, donde la densidad de psicoanalistas en relación con la población de clases media y alta resulta inusitada y asombrosamente elevada.
Es precisamente aquí, en el alejado Río de la Plata, donde se hace sentir más la carencia de aportes biográficos serios y completos sobre la figura de Carl Jung, y donde el gastado y nada fundamentado remoquete de filonazismo sirve estereotipadamente para denostar su figura y sus aporte a las ciencias humanísticas. El libro de Deirdre Bair, a mi juicio, es muy esclarecedor sobre estos remanidos aspectos controversiales, y seguramente conocerá pronto una versión española que -espero- resulte fidedigna y adecuada en su traducción. Junto con la ya hace tiempo existente biografía debida a Gerhard Wehr, esta nueva biografía de Jung constituirá una buena base de referencia sobre la figura del maestro de Bollingen, volviendo las cosas a su verdadera dimensión, y recolocando su figura en el contexto de la historia científica, y no de la controversia ideológica donde se lo quiso colocar equívocamente.

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Alexandra

this is a painful read. Yet not to know this content is ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2016

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For adherents of C.G. Jung, this is a painful read. Yet not to know this content is to be woefully uninformed about a person whose psychology has made such a huge impact in the world. Here we encounter Jung's true surroundings, his friends, his family, his colleagues, his trials, how he was regarded in Zurich, England, America and Germany/Austria, his interpersonal problems--not just with Freud but with other very important people in his life. Bair has done a tour de force amount of research. She makes no statements that are not corroborated by a serious footnote. There is a reason why she was trusted by the Jung family. She is fair, careful, objective and never leads the reader.

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a23

Fair picture of the man

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 13, 2011

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Jung is a challenging subject to write about - an individual that splits public and professional opinion and no shortage of acolytes or assassins wanting to whet their own particular angles, plus ongoing and fierce protection of many of his notebooks/archives etc by his family. I've read several other biographies, including Jung's Memories, Dreams, Recollections and found this work immensely engaging and thorough. I felt I was presented with a vivd picture of Jung with good explanations of the origins and development of his key ideas, the challenges he encountered (or created) with his professional peers and his personal life. It's not always an attractive picture that emerges, but it does seem fair and balanced. I'd say this is probably the one book you should read if you have a thirst for knowledge about the man (i'd recommend Anthony Stevens "On Jung" if it's his professional theories that interest you)

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Poor quality copy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2021

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Poor quality paper therefore not a pleasant book to touch or look at.... Content great so far.

Erkki-Pekka Kinnunen

Magnum opus

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2014

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An excellent biography, very accurately documented, yet enjoyable to read - great! A rare reading enjoyment, an opus written with expertise and great style

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Sam the Man

Print on demand!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 9, 2015

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This is a fine book as regards the actual text; however I want to warn anyone who might order the paperback new from Amazon that what they are selling here is nothing but a crappy print-on-demand copy; the cover and pages are accordingly poorly produced - for instance the photo section contains lines from the computer printer, etc.

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Gerard P_Mtl CA

fantastic jjob by Deirdre Bair

Reviewed in Canada on October 30, 2019

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Wow !

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