A study of the analogies between alchemy, Christian dogma, and psychological symbolism. Alchemy is central to Jung’s hypothesis of the collective unconscious. This book begins with an outline of the process and aims of psychotherapy as seen by Jung. It then moves on to work out the analogies mentioned above and his own understanding of the analytic process. Jung reminds us of the dual nature of alchemy, comprising both the chemical process and a parallel mystical component. He also discusses the seemingly deliberate mystification of the alchemists. Finally, in using the alchemical process to provide insights into individuation, Jung emphasises the importance of alchemy in relating to us the transcendent nature of the psyche.

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.

Subjects covered include Freud’s theory of hysteria, the analysis of dreams, the theory of psychoanalysis, and more. 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.

Includes numerous full-color illustrations.[19][20] In this volume, Jung’s theory is first established through three essays, followed by essays on specific archetypes, and finally a section relating them to the process of individuation. The Journal of Analytical Psychology calls this volume: “An eloquent witness to Jung’s greatness of mind and heart. His idea of the archetype involves profound attitudes towards man’s existence and intimates values through which very many people have found a new significance in their lives.”

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.

Completed in his 81st year, it is Jung’s last major work on the synthesis of opposites in alchemy and psychology. <div class"quotation">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."

A major work of Jung’s later years, the central theme is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the Self, whose traditional historical equivalent in Europe is the figure of Christ. Jung demonstrates his thesis by an investigation of the Christian fish symbol, and of Gnostic and alchemical symbolism. He regards these as phenomena of cultural assimilation. Chapters on the ego, the shadow, and the anima and animus, provide a valuable summary of these elementary concepts in Jungian psychology. Much in this volume is concerned with the rise of Christianity 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 of the Self. The book also discusses the problem of opposites, particularly good and evil.

Consists of five long essays that trace Jung’s developing interest in alchemy. Serving as an introduction and supplement to his major works on the subject, the book is illustrated with 42 drawings and paintings by Jung’s patients. The psychological and religious implications of alchemy were Jung’s major preoccupation during the last thirty years of his life. The essays in this volume complete the publication of his alchemical researches, to which three other volumes have been entirely devoted: “Mysterium Coniunctionis”, “Psychology and Alchemy”, and “Aion”.

This volume can serve as an introduction to Jung’s work on alchemy. The first essay, on Chinese alchemy, marked the beginning of his interest in the subject, and was originally published in a volume written jointly with Richard Wilhelm. The other four are now published for the first time completely in English. Overall, this book discusses the philosophical and religious aspects of alchemy, as alchemy was introduced more as a religion than a science. His concluding statement is that when in Europe alchemy became shunned out of existence, investigations of the human psyche went undiscovered for several hundred years.

A complete revision of Psychology of the Unconscious (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: psychiatry, psychoanalysis, ethnology, and comparative religion. 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: 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. The book contains material on directed thinking vs. associative thinking (dreaming), the Hieros gamos, and extensive analysis of the fantasies of a Miss Frank Miller, including the symbols of the hero, mother, and sacrifice.

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, as well as his later views on its nature. There is also a 1916 essay on the therapeutic uses of active imagination. Several important chapters elucidate Jung’s ideas on synchronicity, which were later published separately as “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle.”

Contains sixteen studies in religious phenomena, including “Psychology and Religion” and “Answer to Job”. The New York Times Book Review said of the book:

Contains “On the Psychology of Dementia Praecox” (1907), which Abraham Brill 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. 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 of schizophrenia.

Contains papers on child psychology, education, and individuation. 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.

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.

Includes Jung’s word association studies in normal and abnormal psychology; two 1909 Clark University lectures on the association method; and three articles on psychophysical researches from American and English journals in 1907 and 1908. The word association studies were an important contribution to diagnostic psychology and psychiatry, and show the influence on Jung of Eugen Bleuler and Sigmund Freud.

Contains nine essays, written between 1922 and 1941, on Paracelsus, Freud, Picasso, sinologist Richard Wilhelm, James Joyce’s Ulysses, artistic creativity generally, and the source of artistic creativity in archetypal structures.

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 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.

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.

Jung proposes four main functions of consciousness: two perceiving or non-rational functions (Sensation and Intuition), and two judging or rational functions (Thinking and Feeling). These functions are modified by two main attitude types: extraversion and introversion.

Jung proposes that the dominant function, along with the dominant attitude, characterizes consciousness, while its opposite is repressed and characterizes the unconscious. Based on this, the eight outstanding psychological types are:

1. Extraverted sensation / Introverted sensation;
2. Extraverted intuition / Introverted intuition;
3. Extraverted thinking / Introverted thinking; and
4. Extraverted feeling / Introverted feeling.

Jung, as such, describes in detail the effects of tensions between the complexes associated with the dominant and inferior differentiating functions in highly and even extremely one-sided types.

Contains essays on aspects of analytical therapy, specifically the transference, abreaction, and dream analysis. 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. 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.

Presents 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 Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious” (1928; 2nd edn., 1935) and “On the Psychology of the Unconscious” (1943).

Historically, the essays mark the end of Jung’s close association with Sigmund Freud, showing his attempt to integrate the work of Freud and Alfred Adler into a comprehensive framework. To show the development of his thinking, an appendix in later editions also includes original versions of the essays “New Paths in Psychology” (1912) and “The Structure of the Unconscious” (1916) — both of which were discovered after Jung’s death.

A record, through 1990, of all of Jung’s publications in German and 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.