''The Collected Works of C. G. Jung'' (german: Gesammelte Werke) is a
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containing the first collected edition, in English translation, of the major writings of Swiss psychiatrist
Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philo ...
.
The twenty volumes, including a
Bibliography
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and a General
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, were translated from the original German by
R.F.C. Hull, under the editorship of Sir
Herbert Read
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,
Michael Fordham
Michael Scott Montague Fordham (4 August 1905 – 14 April 1995) was an English child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. He was a co-editor of the English translation of C.G. Jung's Collected Works. His clinical and theoretical collaboratio ...
and
Gerhard Adler
Gerhard Adler (14 April 1904 – 23 December 1988) was a major figure in the world of analytical psychology, known for his translation into English from the original German and editorial work on the '' Collected Works'' of Carl Gustav Jung. He als ...
. 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.
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.
A body of Jung's work still remains unpublished.
Princeton University Press
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published these volumes in the
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as part of its
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of books.
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published them independently in the
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. In general, the Princeton editions are not available for sale in
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, and the Routledge editions are not available for sale in the US. There are many differences in publication dates between the Princeton and Routledge series, as well as some differences in edition numbers and the styling of titles; there are also various
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, available from both publishers, each with its own
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A digital edition, complete except for the General Index in Volume 20, is also available. Both the individual volumes and the complete set are fully searchable.
In the Bollingen Series
Volumes
Princeton University Press
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The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial su ...
published these volumes in the
United States
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as part of its
Bollingen Series Bollingen is a village (''Kirchdorf'') within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen.
Geography
The village is located along the northern shore of the upper Lake Zürich (''Obersee'') between Jona and Schmeriko ...
of books. The Routledge series includes the same volumes with the same numbers, but with many different publication dates and some minor variations in the styling of titles.
The series includes 20 volumes, one of them published in two parts; detailed chapter-by-chapter abstracts of each volume are available online.
:Volume 1 – ''Psychiatric Studies'' (1957)
:Volume 2 – ''Experimental Researches'' (1973)
:Volume 3 – ''Psychogenesis of Mental Disease'' (1960)
:Volume 4 – ''Freud & Psychoanalysis'' (1961)
:Volume 5 – ''Symbols of Transformation'' (1967; a revision of ''
Psychology of the Unconscious
''Psychology of the Unconscious'' (german: Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido) is an early work of Carl Jung, first published in 1912. The English translation by Beatrice M. Hinkle appeared in 1916 under the full title of ''Psychology of the Uncon ...
'', 1912)
:Volume 6 – ''
Psychological Types'' (1971)
:Volume 7 – ''
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
''Two Essays on Analytical Psychology'' is volume 7 of '' The Collected Works of C. G. Jung'', presenting the core of Carl Jung's views about psychology. Known as one of the best introductions to Jung's work, the volumes includes the essays "The R ...
'' (1967)
:Volume 8 – ''Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche'' (1969)
:Volume 9 (Part 1) – ''Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious'' (1969)
:Volume 9 (Part 2) – ''Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self'' (1969)
:Volume 10 – ''Civilization in Transition'' (1970)
:Volume 11 – ''Psychology and Religion: West and East'' (1970)
:Volume 12 – ''
Psychology and Alchemy
''Psychology and Alchemy'', volume 12 in '' The Collected Works of C. G. Jung'', is Carl Jung's study of the analogies between alchemy, Christian dogma, and psychological symbolism.
Alchemy is central to Jung's hypothesis of the collective uncon ...
'' (1968)
:Volume 13 – ''
Alchemical Studies
''Alchemical Studies'', volume 13 in '' The Collected Works of C. G. Jung'', consists of five long essays by Carl Jung that trace his developing interest in alchemy from 1929 onward. Serving as an introduction and supplement to his major works on ...
'' (1968)
:Volume 14 – ''Mysterium Coniunctionis'' (1970)
:Volume 15 – ''Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature'' (1966)
:Volume 16 – ''Practice of Psychotherapy'' (1966)
:Volume 17 – ''Development of Personality'' (1954)
:Volume 18 – ''The Symbolic Life'' (1977)
:Volume 19 – ''General Bibliography'' (Revised Edition) (1990)
:Volume 20 – ''General Index'' (1979)
Additional content
In addition to the 20-volume ''Collected Works'', the following titles are also included as part of the Bollingen Series:
* Supplementary Volume A - ''The Zofingia Lectures''
* Supplementary Volume B - ''The Psychology of the Unconscious'' (first version of ''Symbols of Transformation'')
* ''Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminars Given in 1925''
* ''Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminars Given in 1928-30''
* ''Visions: Notes on the Seminars Given in 1930-34''
* ''The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga. Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932''
* ''Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminars Given in 1934-39: Vol 1''
* ''Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminars Given in 1934-39: Vol 2''
* ''Children's Dreams. Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940''
* ''
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle''
Vol 1. ''Psychiatric Studies''
''Psychiatric Studies'', volume 1 in ''The Collected Works'', contains Jung's papers written between 1902 and 1905, focusing on descriptive and experimental
psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry.
Initial psych ...
from his early days in medical practice. They show the influence on Jung of
Eugen Bleuler
Paul Eugen Bleuler (; ; 30 April 1857 – 15 July 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist and humanist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness. He coined several psychiatric terms including "schizophrenia", "schizoid", ...
and
Pierre Janet
Pierre Marie Félix Janet (; 30 May 1859 – 24 February 1947) was a pioneering French psychologist, physician, philosopher, and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory.
He is ranked alongside William James and ...
.
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
Mediumship is the practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings. Practitioners are known as "mediums" or "spirit mediums". There are different types of mediumship or spir ...
. It also includes papers on
cryptomnesia,
Freudian slips
In psychoanalysis, a Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that occurs due to the interference of an unconscious subdued wish or internal train of thought. Classical examples involve slips of t ...
in reading, simulated insanity, and other subjects, and discusses some conditions of
inferiority
In psychology, an inferiority complex is an intense personal feeling of inadequacy, often resulting in the belief that one is in some way deficient, or inferior, to others.
According to Alfred Adler, a feeling of inferiority may be brought ab ...
and
altered states of consciousness
An altered state of consciousness (ASC), also called altered state of mind or mind alteration, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking state. By 1892, the expression was in use in relation to hypnosis, though there ...
which were previously thought to be
occult phenomena. Included are case studies of
sleepwalkers and patients who had
hypomania
Hypomania (literally "under mania" or "less than mania") is a mental and behavioural disorder, characterised essentially by an apparently non-contextual elevation of mood ( euphoria) that contributes to persistently disinhibited behaviour.
Th ...
.
The papers in this volume were edited by
Sir Herbert Read
Sir Herbert Edward Read, (; 4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read ...
,
Michael Fordham
Michael Scott Montague Fordham (4 August 1905 – 14 April 1995) was an English child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. He was a co-editor of the English translation of C.G. Jung's Collected Works. His clinical and theoretical collaboratio ...
and
Gerhard Adler
Gerhard Adler (14 April 1904 – 23 December 1988) was a major figure in the world of analytical psychology, known for his translation into English from the original German and editorial work on the '' Collected Works'' of Carl Gustav Jung. He als ...
.
Editions
* 1957. 1st ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. .
* 1970. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. .
Vol 2. ''Experimental Researches''
''Experimental Researches'', volume 2 in ''The Collected Works'', edited by
Gerhard Adler
Gerhard Adler (14 April 1904 – 23 December 1988) was a major figure in the world of analytical psychology, known for his translation into English from the original German and editorial work on the '' Collected Works'' of Carl Gustav Jung. He als ...
, includes Jung's
word association studies in normal and abnormal psychology; two 1909
Clark University
Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark, a prominent businessman, Clark was one of the first modern research universities in the ...
lectures on the association method; and three articles on
psychophysical researches from American and English journals in 1907 and 1908.
The word association studies described in this book were an important contribution to diagnostic
psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...
and
psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry.
Initial psych ...
, and show the influence on Jung of
Eugen Bleuler
Paul Eugen Bleuler (; ; 30 April 1857 – 15 July 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist and humanist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness. He coined several psychiatric terms including "schizophrenia", "schizoid", ...
and
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...
.
Vol 3. ''Psychogenesis of Mental Disease''
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''Psychogenesis of Mental Disease'', volume 3 in ''The Collected Works'', shows the development of Jung's thoughts about the nature of mental illness, and established him as a pioneer and scientific contributor to
psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry.
Initial psych ...
.
It contains "On the Psychology of Dementia Praecox" (1907), which
Abraham Brill
Abraham Arden Brill (October 12, 1874 – March 2, 1948) was an Austrian-born psychiatrist who spent almost his entire adult life in the United States. He was the first psychoanalyst to practice in the United States and the first translator of S ...
described as "indispensable for every student of psychiatry;" as well as nine other papers in psychiatry, all of which demonstrating Jung's original thinking about the origins of mental illness and give insight into the development of his later concepts such as
the archetypes and the
collective unconscious
Collective unconscious (german: kollektives Unbewusstes) refers to the unconscious mind and shared mental concepts. It is generally associated with idealism and was coined by Carl Jung. According to Jung, the human collective unconscious is populat ...
.
Among the latter nine works, "The Content of the Psychoses" (1908) and two papers from 1956 and 1958, respectively, discuss Jung's conclusions after long experience in the
psychotherapy
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of
schizophrenia
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.
This volume was edited and translated from German by Read, Hull, and Adler.
Editions
* 1960. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. .
* 1992. London: Routledge. .
Vol 4. ''Freud & Psychoanalysis''
''Freud & Psychoanalysis'', volume 4 in ''The Collected Works'', contains most of Jung's published writings on
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...
and
psychoanalysis
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might b ...
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
A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, or mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework. The concept originated in the 19th century, as a defens ...
and his criticism of Freud's emphasis on
psychopathology
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Biological psychopatholo ...
led to their final break.
Subjects covered include Freud's theory of
hysteria
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, the
analysis of dreams, the theory of psychoanalysis, and more.
The ''
Times Literary Supplement
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History
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'' said that "This volume is an excellent introduction into Jungian theories and demonstrates their fundamental differences from psychoanalysis. It also makes it understandable that Jung was often called a
mystic even at the early stage of the development of his theories,"
and that this "volume will furnish excellent source material for historians interested in the gradual parting of the ways in the developing ideas of these two giants. An excellent introduction into Jungian theories..."
Editions
* 1961. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
* 1961. London: Routledge. .
Vol 5. ''Symbols of Transformation''
''Symbols of Transformation'', volume 5 in ''The Collected Works'', is a complete revision of ''
Psychology of the Unconscious
''Psychology of the Unconscious'' (german: Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido) is an early work of Carl Jung, first published in 1912. The English translation by Beatrice M. Hinkle appeared in 1916 under the full title of ''Psychology of the Uncon ...
'' (1911–12), Jung's first important statement of his independent position in psychology.
In 1911, Jung said that the book "laid down a programme to be followed for the next few decades of my life." It covers many and varied fields of study, including among others:
psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry.
Initial psych ...
,
psychoanalysis
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might b ...
,
ethnology
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, and
comparative religion
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. It became a standard work and was translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and Italian as well as English. Its somewhat misleading title in English was ''The Psychology of the Unconscious''. In the foreword to ''Symbols of Transformation'', Jung wrote: The book contains material on directed thinking vs.
associative thinking (dreaming), the
Hieros gamos
''Hieros gamos'', hieros (ἱερός) meaning "holy" or "sacred" and gamos (γάμος) meaning marriage, or Hierogamy (Greek , "holy marriage"), is a sacred marriage that plays out between a god and a goddess, especially when enacted in a symb ...
, and extensive analysis of the fantasies of a Miss Frank Miller, including the symbols of the hero, mother, and sacrifice.
Editions
* 1956. London: Routledge. .
* 1967. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. .
Vol 6. ''Psychological Types''
Vol 7. ''Two Essays on Analytical Psychology''
Vol 8. ''Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche''
''Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche'', volume 8 in ''The Collected Works'', is a revised translation of one of Jung's most important longer works. There is an appendix of four shorter papers on
personality type
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, published between 1913 and 1935.
This volume traces an important line of development in Jung's thought from 1912 onwards. It first elaborates
Freud's concept of
sexual libido into Jung's own concept: psychic energy. Then it shows how Jung slowly arrived at a concept even more controversial than psychic energy was in its day: psychic reality. The book has Jung's first mention of the
archetype
The concept of an archetype (; ) appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.
An archetype can be any of the following:
# a statement, pattern of behavior, prototype, "first" form, or a main model that ot ...
, as well as his later views on its nature. There is also a 1916 essay on the therapeutic uses of
active imagination
An active imagination is a conscious method of experimentation. It employs creative imagination as an organ for "perceiving outside your mental boxes." For the first hundred years of active imagination, it was applied primarily by individuals for ...
.
Several important chapters elucidate Jung's ideas on
synchronicity
Synchronicity (german: Synchronizität) is a concept first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl G. Jung "to describe circumstances that appear meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection." In contemporary research, synchronicity ...
, which were later published separately as ''
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle.
''
Editions
* 1970. London: Routledge. .
* 1970. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. .
Vol 9. Part 1 and 2
Part 1 — ''Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious''
''Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious'' is part 1 of volume 9 in ''The Collected Works'', and includes numerous full-color illustrations.
In this volume, Jung's theory is first established through three essays, followed by essays on specific
archetypes
The concept of an archetype (; ) appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.
An archetype can be any of the following:
# a statement, pattern of behavior, prototype, "first" form, or a main model that ...
, and finally a section relating them to the process of
individuation
The principle of individuation, or ', describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinct from other things.
The concept appears in numerous fields and is encountered in works of Leibniz, Carl Gustav Jung, Gunther Anders, Gilbert Sim ...
.
''The Journal of Analytical Psychology'' calls this volume:
Editions
* 1969. 1st ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
* 1991. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. .
Part 2 — ''Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self''
''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.
Its central theme is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the
Self
The self is an individual as the object of that individual’s own reflective consciousness. Since the ''self'' is a reference by a subject to the same subject, this reference is necessarily subjective. The sense of having a self—or ''selfhood ...
, whose traditional historical equivalent is the figure of
Christ
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, names and titles), was ...
. Jung demonstrates his thesis by an investigation of the Christian
fish symbol
The ichthys or ichthus (), from the Greek (, 1st cent. AD Koine Greek pronunciation: , "fish") is (in its modern rendition) a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs, the ends of the right side extending beyond the meeting point so as to res ...
, and of
Gnostic
Gnosticism (from grc, γνωστικός, gnōstikós, , 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems which coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. These various groups emphasized pe ...
and
alchemical symbol
Alchemical symbols, originally devised as part of alchemy, were used to denote some elements and some compounds until the 18th century. Although notation like this was mostly standardized, style and symbol varied between alchemists, so this pag ...
ism. He regards these as phenomena of
cultural assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
The different types of cultural assi ...
. Chapters on the
ego, the
shadow
A shadow is a dark area where light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object. It occupies all of the three-dimensional volume behind an object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two-dimensional silhouette, o ...
, and the
anima and animus
The anima and animus are described in Carl Jung's school of analytical psychology as part of his theory of the collective unconscious. Jung described the animus as the unconscious masculine side of a woman, and the anima as the unconscious femi ...
, provide a valuable summary of these elementary concepts in
Jungian psychology
Analytical psychology ( de , Analytische Psychologie, sometimes translated as analytic psychology and referred to as Jungian analysis) is a term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, to describe research into his new "empirical science" ...
.
Much in this volume is concerned with the rise of
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global pop ...
and with the figure of Christ. Jung explores how Christianity came into being when it did, the importance of the figure of Christ, and the identification of that figure with the
archetype
The concept of an archetype (; ) appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.
An archetype can be any of the following:
# a statement, pattern of behavior, prototype, "first" form, or a main model that ot ...
of the Self. The book also discusses the problem of opposites, particularly good and evil.''
''
Editions
* 1969. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. .
* 1991. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. .
Vol 10. ''Civilization in Transition''
''Civilization in Transition'', volume 10 in ''The Collected Works'', contains essays bearing on the contemporary scene during the 1920s–1930s, and on the relation of the individual to society. It includes papers focusing on the upheaval in Germany, and two major works of Jung's last years, "The Undiscovered Self" (1957) and "Flying Saucers".
In the first paper, Jung theorizes that the European conflict was essentially a psychological crisis originating in the
collective unconscious
Collective unconscious (german: kollektives Unbewusstes) refers to the unconscious mind and shared mental concepts. It is generally associated with idealism and was coined by Carl Jung. According to Jung, the human collective unconscious is populat ...
of individuals. He gave this theory a much wider application, for example, in "Flying Saucers", about the origins of a myth which he regarded as compensating the
scientistic trends of the present technological era. An appendix contains documents relating to Jung's association with the
International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy was a society founded in 1926. The German physicians Gustav Richard Heyer and Carl Haberlin were among the organization's founders. The prefix ''international'' was added in 1934, after Carl Gu ...
.''
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Editions
* 1964. London: Routledge. .
* 1970. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. .
Vol 11. ''Psychology and Religion: West and East''
''Psychology and Religion: West and East'', volume 11 in ''The Collected Works'', contains sixteen studies in religious phenomena, including "Psychology and Religion" and "
Answer to Job
''Answer to Job'' (german: Antwort auf Hiob) is a 1952 book by Carl Jung that addresses the significance of the Book of Job to the "divine drama" of Christianity. It argues that while he submitted to Yahweh's omnipotence, Job nevertheless proved t ...
".
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'' said of the book:''
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Editions
* 1970. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. .
* 1970. London: Routledge. .
Vol 12. ''Psychology and Alchemy''
Vol 13. ''Alchemical Studies''
Vol 14. ''Mysterium Coniunctionis''
''Mysterium Coniunctionis'', subtitled ''An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy'', is Volume 14 in ''The Collected Works'', and was published in 1970 by
Princeton University Press
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The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial su ...
in the US and by
Routledge and Kegan Paul
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in the UK. Completed in his 81st year, it is Jung's last major work on the synthesis of opposites in
alchemy
Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, ...
and
psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...
.
The book—with ten plates, a bibliography, an index, and an appendix of original Latin and Greek texts quoted—provides a final account of Jung's lengthy researches in alchemy. He empirically discovered that certain key problems of modern man were prefigured in what the alchemists called their "art" or "process."
Edward F. Edinger poses an important question in the introduction to his book ''The Mystery of The Conjunctio'':Jung maintained that:The ''Journal of Analytical Psychology'' said of this book:
Editions
* 1963. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. .
* 1970. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. .
Vol 15. ''Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature''
''Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature'' (sometimes styled as ''The Spirit of...'') is volume 15 in ''The Collected Works'', and contains nine essays, written between 1922 and 1941, on
Paracelsus
Paracelsus (; ; 1493 – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
He w ...
,
Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts in ...
,
Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
, sinologist
Richard Wilhelm,
James Joyce
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's
''Ulysses'', artistic creativity generally, and the source of artistic creativity in
archetypal structures.
Editions
* 1966. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. .
* 1967. London: Routledge. .
Vol 16. ''Practice of Psychotherapy''
''Practice of Psychotherapy'', volume 16 in ''The Collected Works'', contains essays on aspects of
analytical therapy, specifically the
transference
Transference (german: Übertragung) is a phenomenon within psychotherapy in which the "feelings, attitudes, or desires" a person had about one thing are subconsciously projected onto the here-and-now Other. It usually concerns feelings from a ...
,
abreaction Abreaction (german: Abreagieren) is a psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience to purge it of its emotional excesses—a type of catharsis. Sometimes it is a method of becoming conscious of repressed traumatic events.
Psychoanalytic origin ...
, and
dream analysis
Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. Although associated with some forms of psychotherapy, there is no reliable evidence that understanding or interpreting dreams has a positive impact on one's mental health.
In m ...
. There is also an additional essay, "The Realities of Practical Psychotherapy", which was found among Jung's posthumous papers.
The book 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
Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, ...
. The transference is illustrated and interpreted with 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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Editions
* 1966. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. .
* 1993. London: Routledge. .
Vol 17. ''Development of Personality''
''Development of Personality'', volume 17 in ''The Collected Works'', contains papers on
child psychology
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development ...
, education, and
individuation
The principle of individuation, or ', describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinct from other things.
The concept appears in numerous fields and is encountered in works of Leibniz, Carl Gustav Jung, Gunther Anders, Gilbert Sim ...
. The book emphasizes the extreme importance of parents and teachers in the genesis of the intellectual, feeling, and emotional disorders of childhood. A final paper deals with marriage as an aid or obstacle to
self-realization
Self-realization is an expression used in Western psychology, philosophy, and spirituality; and in Indian religions. In the Western understanding, it is the "fulfillment by oneself of the possibilities of one's character or personality" (see ...
.
Jung repeatedly emphasizes the importance of the psychology of parents and teachers in a child's development. He underlines the fact that an unsatisfactory psychological relationship between parents may be an important cause of disorders in childhood. He maintained that the education of children needs teachers who not only know about learning but who can also develop their own personalities. A large part of this book is devoted to expounding Jung's views on these important subjects. There is also an outline of the theory of child development, a snapshot from the life of a girl called Anna and her parents, and a discussion of marriage as a psychological relationship. Finally there is a chapter on child development and individuation.''
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Editions
* 1954. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. .
* 1992. London: Routledge. .
Vol 18. ''The Symbolic Life''
''The Symbolic Life'', volume 18 in ''The Collected Works'', contains miscellaneous writings that Jung published after the ''Collected Works'' had been planned; minor and fugitive works that he wished to assign to a special volume, and early writings that came to light in the course of research.
Originally planned as a brief final volume in the Collected Works, ''The Symbolic Life'' has become the largest volume in the series, and one of unusual interest. It contains 160 items spanning sixty years; they include forewords, replies to questionnaires, encyclopedia articles, occasional addresses, and letters on technical subjects.''
''
Collection of this material relied on three circumstances: First, after Jung returned from medical practice, he devoted more time to writing—after 1950 he wrote about sixty books and papers. Second, research uncovered reviews, reports and articles from the early years of his career. Finally, Jung's files yielded several finished or nearly finished papers that survived in manuscript.''
''
Volume 18 includes three longer works: "The Tavistock Lectures" (1936); "Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams" (1961); and "The Symbolic Life", the transcript of a 1939 seminar given in London.''
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Editions
* 1977. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. .
* 1977. London: Routledge. .
Vol 19. General Bibliography
Replacing the 1979 edition, this volume is a current record, through 1990, of all of Jung's publications in German and in English. It records the initial publication of each original work by Jung, each translation into English, and all significant new editions, including paperbacks and publications in periodicals. The contents of the respective volumes of the ''Collected Works of C. G. Jung'' and the ''Gesammelte Werke'' (published in Switzerland) are listed in parallel to show the interrelation of the two editions. Jung's seminars are dealt with in detail. Where possible, information is provided about the origin of works that were first conceived as lectures. There are indexes of all publications, personal names, organizations and societies, and periodicals.
Vol 20. General Index
This volume is the general index to the eighteen published textual volumes in the ''Collected Works of C.G. Jung''. The comprehensive indexing goes beyond the volume indexes, and includes sub-indexes to important general topics, such as Alchemical Collections; Codices and Manuscripts; Freud; and the sub-indexing for the Bible arranged by book, chapter and verse.
The General Index, with the General Bibliography of C.G. Jung's Writings (Volume 19 of the ''Collected Works''), together complete the publication of the ''Collected Works of C.G. Jung'' in English.
Philemon Series
The Philemon Series is currently in production by the
Philemon Foundation. The series will eventually include an additional 30 volumes of work containing previously unpublished manuscripts, seminars and correspondence.
* ''The Jung-White Letters'', 2007.
* ''Children's Dreams'', 2008.
* ''
The Red Book'', 2009.
* ''The Question of Psychological Types'', 2013.
* ''Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern'', 2014.
* ''The Jung & Neumann Correspondence'', 2015.
* ''Notes from C. G. Jung's Lecture on Gérard de Nerval's "Aurélia"'', 2015.
* ''History of Modern Psychology: Lectures Delivered at the ETH Zurich, Volume 1: 1933-1934'', 2018.
* ''Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process. Notes of C. G. Jung's Seminars on Wolfgang Pauli's Dreams'', 2019.
* ''On Theology and Psychology: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Adolf Keller'', 2020.
* ''
The Black Books'', 2020.
* ''Psychology of Yoga and Meditation: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 6: 1938–1940'', 2021.
* ''Consciousness and the Unconscious: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 2: 1934'', 2022.
* ''Jung on Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 7: 1939–1940'', 2023.
Reception
Philosopher
Walter Kaufmann has criticized the arrangement of the ''Collected Works'' as unsystematic, and
R. F. C. Hull
R. F. C. Hull (full name: Richard Francis Carrington Hull; 5 March 1913 – 16 December 1974), was a British translator, best known for his role in translating ''The Collected Works of C.G. Jung''. He also translated many other scholarly works.
...
's translation as occasionally inaccurate.
[Walter Kaufmann, ''Freud Versus Adler and Jung'' 291-3 McGraw Hill 1980]
See also
*
Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philo ...
*
Carl Jung publications
References
External links
Philemon FoundationPrinceton University Press catalog of the Bollingen series, with links to listings of individual works Routledge imprint listing all 20 volumes of first English editionAbstracts of the ''Collected Works of C.G. Jung''- Detailed abstracts of each work, edited by Carrie Lee Rothgeb, of the National Clearinghouse for Mental Health Information, a branch of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health.
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