C.G.Jung: Lord of the Underworld [Paperback]

An accessible introduction to the life and work of one of the key figures in analytical psychology.

Carl Gustav Jung is one of the seminal figures in the history of depth psychology. An enormously influential and original thinker, Jung was for some time Freud's principal disciple, but he became more and more critical of the Freudian emphasis on repressed sexual tendencies and after the publication ofSymbols of Transformationin 1912, Jung broke away from Freud to develop his own technique of 'analytical psychology'.

Jung's clinical work and, perhaps more importantly, his own experience of so-called occult phenomena led him to formulate and describe a number of key concepts, which have now passed into general currency, including the theory of archetypes; the collective unconscious; synchronicity; and the idea of 'active imagination, a technique of conscious dreaming.

With characteristic fluency, Colin Wilson weaves a fascinating biographical narrative with a penetrating analysis of Jung's ideas, providing a clear, readable introduction to his life and work.

An accessible introduction to the life and work of one of the key figures in analytical psychology

Acknowledgements

Introduction

One
A Dual Personality

Two
How to Become a Scientist

Three
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Four
Lord of the Underworld

Five
The Invisible Writing

Six
The Sage of K?snacht

Seven
Doubts and Reservations

Appendix:
Active Imagination

Select Bibliography

Index