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Symbols of Transformation: Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Volume 5

Hardback

Main Details

Title Symbols of Transformation: Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Volume 5
Authors and Contributors      By (author) C. G. Jung
Edited by Gerhard Adler
Edited by Michael Fordham
Edited by Herbert Read
SeriesCollected Works of C. G. Jung
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:664
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9780415136372
ClassificationsDewey:150.1954
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 65 plates and 43 figures

Publishing Details

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint Routledge
Publication Date 31 March 1956
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In 1911 Jung published a book of which he says: '...it laid down a programme to be followed for the next few decades of my life.' It was vastly erudite and covered innumerable fields of study: psychiatry, psychoanalysis, ethnology and comparitive religion amongst others. In due course it became a standard work and was translated into French, Dutch and Italian as well as English, in which language it was given the well-known but somewhat misleading title of The Psychology of the Unconscious. In the Foreword to the present revised edition which first appeared in 1956, Jung says: '...it was the explosion of all those psychic contents which could find no room, no breathing space, in the constricting atmosphere of Freudian psychology...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.' For this edition, appearing ten years after the first, bibliographical citations and entries have been revised in the light of subsequent publications in the Collected Works and in the standard edition of Freud's works, some translations have been substituted in quotations, and other essential corrections have been made, but there have been no changes of substance in the text.

Reviews

"The work is an intellectual tour de force of a very considerable calibre, as witnessed by the quite extraordinary amount of mythological material put into it, and the extensive research this must have required." - The Journal of Analytical Psychology