Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 18: The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings - Hardcover

Jung, C. G.

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ISBN 10: 0691098921 ISBN 13: 9780691098920

Verlag: PRINCETON UNIV PR, 1977

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The authoritative edition of Jung’s miscellaneous collected writings

The Symbolic Life gathers some 160 of Jung’s writings that span sixty years and reflect his inquiring mind, numerous interests, and wide circle of professional and personal acquaintance. These writings include three longer works, “The Symbolic Life,” “Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams,” and “The Tavistock Lectures”; a number of previously overlooked reviews, reports, and articles from the early years of Jung’s career; several finished or virtually finished manuscripts that weren’t published in his lifetime, including a 1901 report on Freud’s On Dreams; and works Jung wrote after retiring from active medical practice. The other pieces collected here include forewords to books by colleagues and pupils, replies to journalists’ questions, encyclopedia articles, and letters on technical subjects.

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'Collected Works, The Symbolic Life' has 160 items representative of the author's numerous interest, his wide circle of professional and personal acquaintance, and his inquiring mind. Its contents span sixty years; they include forewords to books by pupils and colleagues, replies to journalistic questionnaires, encyclopedia articles, occasional addresses, and letters on technical subjects.

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THE SYMBOLIC LIFE

MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS

By C. G. JUNG, GERHARD ADLER, R. F. C. HULL

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Copyright © 1976 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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ISBN: 978-0-691-09892-0

Contents

EDITORIAL NOTE, vii, 
I THE TAVISTOCK LECTURES (1935), 
II SYMBOLS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS (1961), 
III THE SYMBOLIC LIFE (1939), 
IV ON OCCULTISM (C.W., vol. I), 
V THE PSYCHOGENESIS OF MENTAL DISEASE (C.W., vol. 3), 
VI FREUD AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (C.W., vol. 4), 
VII ON SYMBOLISM (C.W., vol. 5), 
VIII TWO ESSAYS ON ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY (C.W., vol. 7), 
IX THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE PSYCHE (C.W., vol. 8), 
X THE ARCHETYPES AND THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS (C.W., vol. 9), 
XI CIVILIZATION IN TRANSITION (C.W., vol. 10), 
XII PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION (C.W., vol 11), 
XIII ALCHEMICAL STUDIES (C.W., vols. 12, 13, 14), 
XIV THE SPIRIT IN MAN, ART, AND LITERATURE (C.W., vol. 15), 
XV THE PRACTICE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY (C.W., vol. 16), 
XVI THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY (C.W., vol. 17), 
ADDENDA, 
Foreword to Psychologische Abhandlungen, Volume I (1914), 825, 
Address at the Presentation of the Jung Codex [longer version] (1953), 826, 
BIBLIOGRAPHY, 831, 
INDEX OF TITLES, 855, 
INDEX, 857, 

CHAPTER 1

The Chairman (Dr. H. Crichton-Miller):

1 Ladies and Gentlemen, I am here to express your welcome to Professor Jung, and it gives me great pleasure to do so. We have looked forward, Professor Jung, to your coming for several months with happy anticipation. Many of us no doubt have looked forward to these seminars hoping for new light. Most of us, I trust, are looking forward to them hoping for new light upon ourselves. Many have come here because they look upon you as the man who has saved modern psychology from a dangerous isolation in the range of human knowledge and science into which it was drifting. Some of us have come here because we respect and admire that breadth of vision with which you have boldly made the alliance between philosophy and psychology which has been so condemned in certain other quarters. You have restored for us the idea of value, the concept of human freedom in psychological thought; you have given us certain new ideas that to many of us have been very precious, and above all things you have not relinquished the study of the human psyche at the point "·here all science ends. For this and many other benefits which are known to each of us independently and individually we are grateful to you, and we anticipate with the highest expectations these meetings.

Professor Jung:

2 Ladies and Gentlemen: First of all I should like to point out that my mother tongue is not English; thus if my English is not too good I must ask your forgiveness for any error I may commit.

3 As you know, my purpose is to give you a short outline of certain fundamental conceptions of psychology. If my demonstration is chiefly concerned with my own principles or my own point of view, it is not that I overlook the value of the great contributions of other workers in this field. I do not want to push myself unduly into the foreground, but I can surely expect my audience to be as much aware of Freud's and Adler's merits as I am.

4 Now as to our procedure, I should like to give you first a short idea of my programme. We have two main topics to deal with, namely, on the one side the concepts concerning the structure of the unconscious mind and its contents; on the other, the methods used in the investigation of contents originating in the unconscious psychic processes. The second topic falls into three parts, first, the word-association method; second, the method of dream-analysis; and third, the method of active imagination.

5 I know, of course, that I am unable to give you a full account of all there is to say about such difficult topics as, for instance, the philosophical, religious, ehical, and social problems peculiar to the collective consciousness of our time, or the processes of the collective unconscious and the comparative mythological and historical researches necessary for their elucidation. These topics, although apparently remote, are yet the most potent factors in making, regulating, and disturbing the personal mental condition, and they also form the root of disagreement in the field of psychological theories. Although I am a medical man and therefore chiefly concerned with psychopathology, I am nevertheless convinced that this particular branch of psychology can only be benefited by a considerably deepened and more extensive knowledge of the normal psyche in general. The doctor especially should never lose sight of the fact that diseases are disturbed normal processes and not entia per se with a psychology exclusively their own. Similia similibus curantur is a remarkable truth of the old medicine, and as a great truth it is also liable to become great nonsense. Medical psychology, therefore, should be careful not to become morbid itself. One-sidedness and restriction of horizon are well-known neurotic peculiarities.

6 Whatever I may be able to tell you will undoubtedly remain a regrettably unfinished torso. Unfortunately I take little stock of new theories, as my empirical temperament is more eager for new facts than for what one might speculate about them, although this is, I must admit, an enjoyable intellectual pastime. Each new case is almost a new theory to me, and I am not quite convinced that this standpoint is a thoroughly bad one, particularly when one considers the extreme youth of modern psychology, which to my mind has not yet left its cradle. I know, therefore, that the time for general theories is not yet ripe. It even looks to me sometimes as if psychology had not yet understood either the gigantic size of its task, or the perplexingly and distressingly complicated nature of its subject-matter: the psyche itself_ It seems as if we were just waking up to this fact, and that the dawn is still too dim for us to realize in full what it means that the psyche, being the object of scientific observation and judgment, is at the same time its subject, the means by which you make such observations. The menace of so formidably vicious a circle has driven me to an extreme of caution and relativism which has often been thoroughly misunderstood.

7 I do not want to disturb our dealings by bringing up disquieting critical arguments. I only mention them as a sort of anticipatory excuse for seemingly unnecessary complications. I am not troubled by theories, but a great deal by facts; and I beg you therefore to keep in mind that the shortness of time at my disposal does not allow me to produce all the circumstantial evidence which would substantiate my conclusions. I especially refer here to the intricacies of dream-analysis and to the comparative method of investigating the unconscious processes. In short, I have to depend a great deal upon your goodwill, but I realize naturally it is my own task in the first place to make things as plain as possible.

8 Psychology is a science of consciousness, in the very first place. In the second place, it is the science of the products of what we call the unconscious psyche. We cannot directly explore the unconscious psyche because the unconscious is just unconscious, and we have therefore no relation to it. We can only deal with the conscious products which we suppose have originated in the field called the unconscious, that field of "dim...

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• Verlag: PRINCETON UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1977
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0691098921
• ISBN 13: 9780691098920
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 936
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