| The Wounded Jung: Effects of Jung's Relationships on His Life and Work Contributor(s): Smith, Robert C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 081011576X ISBN-13: 9780810115767 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, is widely considered an intuitive genius with a profound understanding of the peculiar spiritual dilemmas of modern man. In this book, Robert C. Smith shows how Jung's interest in the healing of the psyche was rooted in the conflicts of his own childhood. Smith begins by exploring Jung's formative and transformative life experience, including his relationships with a deeply troubled mother and despairing father, with Sigmund Freud, and with the various women in his life. The relationships to his parents, in particular, have been remarkably unexplored by scholars. Smith then shows how these experiences shaped Jung's thoughts and writing -including his reassessment of religion as inner process - as well as his fascination with gnosticism and alchemy; the attention Jung gives to psychology as myth and the realization of selfhood; and his reinterpretation of evil as a process to be integrated into the proper sphere of human existence. Smith's findings are based on the unprecedented number of primary sources to which he had access, including archival research, his own interviews with many of Jung's intimates, and personal correspondence with Jung himself, as well as on the synthesis of a wide range of recent scholarship on Jung. The culmination of many years of scholarship and reflection, this book should be read by anyone interested in spiritual healing or the connection between psychology and religion. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) - Psychology | Movements - Behaviorism - Psychology | History |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.48" W x 9.01" (0.70 lbs) 208 pages |
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| Publisher Description: By exploring Carl Jung's transformative life experience and its effect on his thoughts and writings, The Wounded Jung shows how Jung's interest in the healing of the psyche was rooted in the conflicts of his childhood. |