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The psychological and religious implications of alchemy were Jung's
major preoccupation during the last thirty years of his life. The
essays composing the present volume complete the publication of his
alchemial researches, to which three entire volumes have been
devoted ^DDL the monumental Mysterium Coniunctionis, Psychology and
Alchemy, and Aion ^DDL besides shorter papers in other volumes.
This collection of shorter Alchemial Studies has special value as
an introduction to Jung's work on alchemy. The first study, on
Chinese alchemy, marked the beginning of his interest in the
subject, and was originally published in a volume written jointly
with Richard Wilhelm. The other four are now published for the
first time completely in English.
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).
The Practice of Psychotherapy brings together Jung's essays on
general questions of analytic therapy and dream analysis. It also
contains his profoundly interesting parallel between the
transference phenomena and alchemical processes. The transference
is illustrated and interpreted by means of a set of symbolic
pictures, and the bond between psychotherapist and patient is shown
to be a function of the kinship libido. Far from being pathological
in its effects, kinship libido has an essential role to play in the
work of individuation and in establishing an organic society based
on the psychic connection of its members with one another and with
their own roots.
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Civilization in Transition
C. G. Jung; Edited by Gerhard Adler; Translated by R.F.C Hull; Edited by Michael Fordham, Sir Herbert Read
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For this second edition of Civilization in Transition, essential
corrections have been made in the text, and the bibliographical
references have been brought up to date. This volume contains
essays bearing on the contemporary scene and, in particular, on the
relation of the individual to society. In the earliest one (1918),
Jung advanced the theory that the European conflict was basically a
psychological crisis originating in the collective unconscious of
individuals. He pursued this theory in papers written during the
'20s and '30s, focusing on the upheaval in Germany, and he gave it
a much wider application in two major works of his last years ^DDL
The Undiscovered Self, concerned with the relation between the
individual and a mass society, and Flying Saucers, on the birth of
a myth which Jung regarded as compensating the scientistic trends
of our technological era. An appendix contains documents relating
to Jung's association with the International General Medical
Society for Psychotherapy.
In 1911 Jung published a book of which he says: '...it laid down a
programme to be followed for the next few decades of my life.' It
was vastly erudite and covered innumerable fields of study:
psychiatry, psychoanalysis, ethnology and comparitive religion
amongst others. In due course it became a standard work and was
translated into French, Dutch and Italian as well as English, in
which language it was given the well-known but somewhat misleading
title of The Psychology of the Unconscious. In the Foreword to the
present revised edition which first appeared in 1956, Jung says:
'...it was the explosion of all those psychic contents which could
find no room, no breathing space, in the constricting atmosphere of
Freudian psychology... It was an attempt, only partially
successful, to create a wider setting for medical psychology and to
bring the whole of the psychic phenomena within its purview.' For
this edition, appearing ten years after the first, bibliographical
citations and entries have been revised in the light of subsequent
publications in the Collected Works and in the standard edition of
Freud's works, some translations have been substituted in
quotations, and other essential corrections have been made, but
there have been no changes of substance in the text.
Alms for Oblivion was first published in 1967. Minnesota Archive
Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books
once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions. This volume makes
available in book form a collection of seventeen essays by Edward
Dahlberg, who has been called one of the great unrecognized writers
of our time. Some of the selections have never been published
before; others have appeared previously only in magazines of
limited circulation. There is a foreword by Sir Herbert Read. The
individual essays are on a wide range of subjects: literary,
historical, philosophical, personal. The longest is a discussion of
Herman Melville's work entitled "Moby-Dick - A Hamitic Dream." The
fate of authors at the hands of reviewers is the subject of the
essay called "For Sale." In "No Love and No Thanks" the author
draws a characterization of our time. He presents a critique of the
poet William Carlos Williams in "Word-Sick and Place- Crazy," and a
discussion of F. Scott Fitzgerald in "Peopleless Fiction." In "My
Friends Stieglitz, Anderson, and Dreiser" he discusses not only
Alfred Stieglitz, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser but other
personalities as well. He also writes of Sherwood Anderson in
"Midwestern Fable." In "Cutpurse Philosopher" the subject is
William James. "Florentine Codex" is about the conquistadores.
Other essays in the collection are the following: "Randolph
Bourne," "Our Vanishing Cooperative Colonies," "Chivers and Poe,"
"Domestic Manners of Americans," "Robert McAlmon: A Memoir," "The
Expatriates: A Memoir," and an essay on Allen Tate.
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