UID:
almahu_9949383950502882
Format:
1 online resource :
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text file, PDF
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780429483028
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0429483023
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9780429907791
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0429907796
Content:
"Jung's The Red Book has an enormous complexity of meaning deriving from Jung's intimate experiences, which are still being discussed and elaborated on by the Jungian community all over the world. The present volume focuses on some of its main aspects and its importance for the understanding of the work of Jung. The Red Book is often mistakenly seen as a product of a midlife crisis of Jung's, caused by his break with Freud. However, although this crisis was present, the work is better understood as a manifestation of unconscious symbolism of Jung's individuation process that started in his childhood. Certain symbols of The Red Book can be traced back to Jung's earliest years, reaching their peak during the period of writing the book and continuing throughout his creative life. Jung's work is therefore understood as having a Janus face: like the old Roman god of the gates it has two faces, one looking back to the past, the other looking to the future. If the past appears in the various figures with which Jung interacts throughout the book, such as the desert anchorite Ammonius, and the prophets and heroes of ancient times, it also looks to the future, pointing to new developments in analytical psychology and the practice of psychotherapy. Both aspects of the The Red Book are here discussed at length. The writing of Jung's book and its appearance to the general public almost a century afterwards is studied in relation to the paradigm crisis in science and the phantasy of millenarianism. Jung wrote this work when Europe was entering the strong cultural crisis of World War One, which threw up profound cultural changes. Jung's family and estate gave their final authorization for the publication of the book in the year 2000, a year full of symbolic meaning, impregnated with phantasies of millenarianism. Jung's work is considered here as a book therefore pertaining to large cultural changes, one in the past and one in the present, and both equally transformative of society and the perception of man himself."--Provided by publisher.
Note:
Chapter ONE Introduction /
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chapter TWO The gestation of the book /
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chapter THREE The structure of the book /
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chapter FOUR Heroism and heroes in The Red Book /
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chapter FIVE The limits between creativity and madness /
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chapter SIX New perspectives in Jungian clinical practice /
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chapter SEVEN The legacy of the dead /
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chapter EIGHT The search for the centre /
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chapter NINE Philemon /
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chapter TEN Final conclusions /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429907791
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429922022
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429483028
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429936258
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781782204510
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429483028
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