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The Zofingia Club was a discussion group to which C.G. Jung
belonged as a medical student: in 1897 he became Chairman, and gave
five lectures. These have survived and are published here in a
supplementary volume to the Collected Works. The lectures are of
great interest to anyone concerned with Jung's early ideas, as a
young medical student from a strongly Swiss Protestant background.
The Lectures are: The Border Zones of Exact Science (November
1896); Some Thoughts on Psychology (May 1897); An Inaugural Address
on Becoming Chairman of the Zofingia Club; Thoughts on the Nature
and Value of Speculative Inquiry (Summer 1898); and Thoughts on the
Interpretation of Christianity with Reference to the Theory of
Albrecht Ritschl (January 1899).
In the tradition of such masterpieces of historical fiction as Mary
Renault's "The King Must Die" East German writer Christa Wolf
movingly retells the story of the fall of Troy - but from the point
of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and
scorn. Written as a result of the author's Greek travels and
studies, "Cassandra" speaks to us in a pressing monologue whose
inner focal points are patriarchy and war. In the four accompanying
pieces, which take the form of travel reports, journal entries, and
a letter, Wolf describes the novel's genesis. Incisive and
intelligent, the entire volume represents an urgent call to examine
the past in order to insure a future.
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Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative
cycles, "Conversations of German Refugees" and "Wilhelm Meister's
Journeyman Years, " both written during a high point of his career,
address various social issues and reveal his experimentation with
narrative and perspective. A traditional cycle of novellas,
"Conversations of German Refugees" deals with the impact and
significance of the French Revolution and suggests Goethe's ideas
on the social function of his art. Goethe's last novel, "Wilhelm
Meister's Journeyman Years, " is a sequel to "Wilhelm Meister's
Apprenticeship" and to "Conversations of German Refugees" and is
considered to be his most remarkable novel in form.
The Israeli analytical psychologist Erich Neumann, whom C. G. Jung
regarded as one of his most gifted students, devoted much of his
later writing to the theme of creativity. This is the third volume
of Neumann's essays on that subject. Neumann found his examples not
only in the work of writers and artists--William Blake, Goethe,
Rilke, Kafka, Klee, Chagall, Picasso, Trakl--but as well in that of
physicists, biologists, psychiatrists, and philosophers.
Confronting the problem of portraying men and women as creative
beings, Neumann expanded the concepts of Jungian psychology with a
more comprehensive definition of the archetype and a new
concept--"unitary reality." Whether or not humanity can be restored
to health from its present situation as a self-endangered species
depends, according to Neumann, on whether we can experience
ourselves as truly creative, in touch with our own being and the
world's being. The six essays comprising this volume--"The Psyche
and the Transformation of the Reality Planes," "The Experience of
the Unitary Reality," "Creative Man and the 'Great Experience,'"
"Man and Meaning," "Peace as the Symbol of Life," and "The Psyche
as the Place of Creation"--all originated as lectures at the Eranos
Conferences in the years 1952 to 1960. Originally published in
1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
The Israeli analytical psychologist Erich Neumann, whom C. G. Jung
regarded as one of his most gifted students, devoted much of his
later writing to the theme of creativity. This is the third volume
of Neumann's essays on that subject. Neumann found his examples not
only in the work of writers and artists--William Blake, Goethe,
Rilke, Kafka, Klee, Chagall, Picasso, Trakl--but as well in that of
physicists, biologists, psychiatrists, and philosophers.
Confronting the problem of portraying men and women as creative
beings, Neumann expanded the concepts of Jungian psychology with a
more comprehensive definition of the archetype and a new
concept--"unitary reality." Whether or not humanity can be restored
to health from its present situation as a self-endangered species
depends, according to Neumann, on whether we can experience
ourselves as truly creative, in touch with our own being and the
world's being. The six essays comprising this volume--"The Psyche
and the Transformation of the Reality Planes," "The Experience of
the Unitary Reality," "Creative Man and the 'Great Experience,'"
"Man and Meaning," "Peace as the Symbol of Life," and "The Psyche
as the Place of Creation"--all originated as lectures at the Eranos
Conferences in the years 1952 to 1960. Originally published in
1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
This "tour de force of analysis" (Joel Agee) examines the life and work of the prolific, visionary writer, painter and critic. Kemp finds in Ruskin's life -- which spanned the same years as Queen Victoria's and thus embodied the Victorian era itself -- a faithful mirror of the history and psychological evolution of his age.
"Parting from Phantoms" is a window into the soul of the most
prominent writer of the German Democratic Republic and its most
famous export, Christa Wolf. The essays, diary entries, and letters
in this book document four agonizing years in Wolf's personal
history and paint a vivid portrait of the cultural and political
situation in the former German Democratic Republic. This collection
stands as an important testimony to the personal and cultural costs
of German reunification.
"The works in this book constitute an essential document of the
history of reunified Germany, and this alone recommends it to
scholars and those interested in current European events."--
"Publishers Weekly"
"Christa Wolf was arguably the most influential writer of a nation
that no longer exists. . . . "Parting from Phantoms" traces the
fever chart of her anguish. . . . In some ways, the rawness of the
present volume is its greatest contribution, and its bona
fides--testifying to the human cost of deception and
self-deception."--Todd Gitlin, "Nation"
"A thrilling display of ideological soul-searching."--Ilan Stavans,
"Newsday," Favorite Books of 1997
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