Man and His Symbols
Written deliberately for a general reader, and the last thing Jung completed.
Thus a word or an image is symbolic when it implies something more than its obvious and immediate meaning.
Man and His Symbols sets out Jung's account of how the unconscious speaks through symbols, and it does so in language he shaped for readers outside the consulting room. The book opens with Jung's own essay, "Approaching the Unconscious," which lays out his method for reading dream images and the difference between a sign and a symbol. Jung then commissioned four close collaborators to carry the argument into their own fields: Joseph Henderson on myth, Marie-Louise von Franz on individuation, Aniela Jaffe on symbolism in the visual arts, and Jolande Jacobi on a single analysis followed in detail. Hundreds of images sit alongside the text, chosen to show symbols at work rather than to decorate. For the practising clinician, it offers a compact statement of how Jung understood dream material, and a record of how his school presented that work to a wider public. It appeared in 1964.
About the author
Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology. He worked closely with Sigmund Freud in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement before breaking with him in 1913 over the nature of the libido and the unconscious. Jung's work posits a collective unconscious populated by archetypes, and frames individuation as the lifelong integration of the psyche. He also distinguished psychological types along the introversion and extraversion axis. He practised and wrote in Zurich until his death in 1961.
Details
- 1964
- English
- Bantam
- Bantam, 1964
- 432
- 9780593499993