Jung - His Life and Work (Paperback, New edition)

The current quickening of interest in Carl Gustav Jung has produced a number of books. This one, says its author - a now 80-year-old Englishwoman - "claims only to be a biographical memoir, showing his life as it appeared to me." On the MS being shown to Jung's children, they "thoroughly disapproved," feeling that his Memories, Dreams and Reflections met the need for a biography. Note also the 1975 book - not a biography - C. G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time by Marie Louise von Franz, in whose understanding of his ideas, says Miss Hannah, Jung had complete confidence. In her own book Miss Hannah sets out to show "how Jung first lived his psychology and later formulated in words what he had lived." She draws on her journals, recollections of conversations with Jung, and her sharing in the life of his professional household for many years, so that her book runs to over 400 pages and is full of the kind of detail that can be important in understanding so individual a figure. She touches base frequently with Memories and deals at length with two issues on which, she feels, circumstances have left her with special knowledge. The first is Jung's attitude to the Nazis; her completely convincing account leaves him with a clean record. And second his relationship with his associate Toni Wolff; here her apologia is less successful. The author may be more Jungian than Jung but she always leaves the reader wanting to follow up her pointers to his own writing. Her clear explanatory narrative can serve as an introduction to Jung, and her sturdy account will also draw aficionados. (Kirkus Reviews)

The psychoanalytic writings of Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) are well-known and biographies of every hue have been published. But what was Jung like in his workaday analytic sessions, and how did he interact with his clients, colleagues and friends on a daily basis? Catharine (Katy) Cabot, an American in Europe, was a patient of Jung's and also a part of his Zurich circle from the 1930's through the 1940's and she recorded the details of her sessions with him along with other inner and outer events. "Onkel" (Uncle), as Jung became to her, and his family and his friends, all were a part of her life in those years.

General

Imprint:	Chiron Publications
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	Barbara Hannah
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	377
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-888602-07-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Popular psychology > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-888602-07-4
Barcode:	9781888602074

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