Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 5 – Symbols of Transformation

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A significant portion of this book reads like a kind of free association of obscure mythological references with many, often long digressions, making it difficult to follow or even find the main thread of thought. As a consequence of which this book challenges the readers perseverance and motivation to keep reading. Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 18: The Symbolic Life". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-20. Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, part 2 of volume 9 in The Collected Works, was originally published in German (1951), and is a major work of Jung's later years.

The book begins with Jung's doctoral dissertation " On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena", a case study of an adolescent girl who claimed to be a psychic medium. It also includes papers on cryptomnesia, Freudian slips in reading, simulated insanity, and other subjects, and discusses some conditions of inferiority and altered states of consciousness which were previously thought to be occult phenomena. Included are case studies of sleepwalkers and patients who had hypomania. [8] There are two mechanisms by which deep structural similarities in mythological motifs may be explained. The first is diffusion, which explains, for example, why Shiva and Poseidon are both deities who carry tridents and are associated with the bull and the moon - they both evolved from a common ancestor found in the Indo-European pantheon before Proto-Indo-European speakers migrated into India and Greece, respectively. Abstracts: Vol 15: The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature". International Association for Analytic Psychology . Retrieved 2020-08-22.Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types. Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 2): Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-19. Jung, following Freud, hypnotized some of his patients. He believed he discovered motifs that could not be explained by the patients’ lives, but which were found in the delusions of schizophrenics, as well as in myths, legends, and fairy tales. Jung called these “the collective unconsciousness.”

The Roman god Janus is often depicted in many Roman beliefs and sacred texts. He is often symbolized as the god of new beginnings. The start of the calendarial month, year, and day were often dedicated to him. Main article: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology Vol 8. Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche [ edit ] Completing the Works of C. G. Jung: Moving to the Second Stage". Philemon Foundation . Retrieved 2020-08-22. [ dead link] Abstracts: Vol 1: Psychiatric Studies". International Association for Analytic Psychology . Retrieved 2020-08-22. 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. [11]

Freud & Psychoanalysis, volume 4 in The Collected Works, contains most of Jung's published writings on Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis from 1906-1916, with two papers from later years. The former period extends from the time of enthusiastic collaboration between Jung and Freud, through that when Jung's growing appreciation of religious experience and his criticism of Freud's emphasis on psychopathology led to their final break. [13] Subjects covered include Freud's theory of hysteria, the analysis of dreams, the theory of psychoanalysis, and more. [14]

The other explanation is that certain common symbols are rooted in the common biological inheritance of all human beings, who all share a common set of conditions and developmental crises, such as birth, dependence on caregivers, waxing and waning of individual powers, and a confrontation with the reality of death. Princeton University Press catalog of the Bollingen series, with links to listings of individual works Abstracts:Vol 16:The Practice of Psychotherapy". International Association for Analytic Psychology . Retrieved 2020-08-22. Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 3: Psychogenesis of Mental Disease". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-17.The Collected Works of C. G. Jung ( German: Gesammelte Werke) is a book series containing the first collected edition, in English translation, of the major writings of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. The twenty volumes, including a Bibliography and a General Index, were translated from the original German by R.F.C. Hull, under the editorship of Sir Herbert Read, Michael Fordham and Gerhard Adler. The works consist of published volumes, essays, lectures, letters, and a dissertation written by Jung from 1902 until his death in 1961. The compilation by the editors dates from 1945 onward. [1] The series contains revised versions of works previously published, works not previously translated, and new translations of many of Jung's writings. Several of the volumes are extensively illustrated; each contains an index and most contain a bibliography. Until his death, Jung supervised the revisions of the text, some of which were extensive. [2] A body of Jung's work still remains unpublished. [3]