Modern Man in Search of a Soul
The best entry point to Jung: eleven essays covering dream analysis, type, and the aims of therapy.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul gathers eleven lectures Jung gave in the early 1930s, translated by W. S. Dell and Cary F. Baynes and published in 1933. The essays run from dream work and psychological type to the second half of life, Jung's parting from Freud, and the common ground of psychotherapy and religion. On dreams, Jung argues against fixed symbol dictionaries: a dream compensates the conscious attitude, and its sense holds only within the dreamer's situation and the wider series. On the aims of treatment, he separates cure from development, holding that many patients arrive not ill in a narrow sense but stalled in meaning, so the work shifts with the stage of life the patient has reached. For the consulting room, the book gives a way of reading dreams without a codebook and a language for the questions of purpose that surface after midlife, where diagnosis alone falls short.
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
- 1933
- English
- W. S. Dell and Cary F. Baynes
- Routledge
- Routledge, 1933
- 264
- 9780415253901