Name: Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido (Collected Works of C. G. Jung - Supplements)
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Author: C. G. Jung
ISBN: 9780691090252

portada Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido (Collected Works of C. G. Jung - Supplements)

Type

Physical Book

Author

C. G. Jung

Illustrated by

William McGuire

Translated by

Beatrice M. Hinkle

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

476

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.8 x 15.4 x 2.9 cm

Weight

0.64 kg.

ISBN

691090254

ISBN13

9780691090252

Synopsis "Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido (Collected Works of C. G. Jung - Supplements)"

"This book became a landmark, set up on the spot where two ways divided. Because of its imperfections and its incompleteness it laid down the program to be followed for the next few decades of my life." Thus wrote C. G. Jung about his most famous and influential work, the one that marked the beginning of his divergence from the psychoanalytic school of Freud. In this book Jung explores the fantasy system of Frank Miller, the young American woman whose account of her poetic and vivid mental images helped lead him to his redefinition of libido while encouraging his explorations in mythology. Published in 1912 as Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, this is a key text for the study of the formation of Jung's ideas and for understanding his personal and psychological condition during this crucial time. Miller's fantasies, with their mythological implications, supported Jung's notion that libido is not primarily sexual energy, as Freud had described it, but rather psychic energy in general, which springs from the unconscious and appears in consciousness as symbols. Jung shows how libido organizes itself as a metaphorical "hero," who first battles for deliverance from the "mother," the symbol of the unconscious, in order to become conscious, then returns to the unconscious for renewal. Jung's analytical commentary on these fantasies is a complex study of symbolic parallels derived from mythology, religion, ethnology, art, literature, and psychiatry, and foreshadows his fundamental concept of the collective unconscious and its contents, the archetypes.

C. G. Jung

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(1875-1961) Psiquiatra suizo, pensador influyente y fundador de la psicología analítica (también conocida como psicología junguiana). El enfoque radical de Jung de la psicología ha sido influyente en el campo de la psicología y en los movimientos contraculturales de todo el mundo. Jung es considerado el primer psicólogo moderno que afirma que la psique humana es "por naturaleza religiosa" y en explorarla en profundidad. Sus muchas obras principales incluyen la psicología analítica: su teoría y práctica; el hombre y sus símbolos; los recuerdos, los sueños, las reflexiones; las obras recopiladas de Carl G. Jung; y El Libro Rojo.

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