Symbols of transformation - C.G. Jung
Volume 5 of the collected works of C.G. Jung
KORTE INHOUD
Second edition
In 1912, at the age of thirty-seven, Jung published the original version of this work, which marked his divergence from the pscyhoanalytical school of Freud. Entitled Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (“Transformations and Symbols of the Libido”), it was translated into English in 1916 as Psychology of the Unconscious and soon became Jung’s most widely known and influential work. In its author’s words, it is “an extended commentary on a practical analysis of the prodromal stages of schizophrenia”; furthermore, it is a complex study of symbolic parallels, drawn from religion, mythology, ethnology, art, literature, and psychiatry. In Jung’s view, libido is not primarily sexual but is identified with psychic energy as a whole, originating in the unconscious and appearing in consciousness as symbols.
Jung believed that this work, despite its comprehensiveness and wide influence, wanted revision because of the haste in which it had been written. Retirement gave him this opportunity, and in 1952 he pu...
In 1912, at the age of thirty-seven, Jung published the original version of this work, which marked his divergence from the pscyhoanalytical school of Freud. Entitled Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (“Transformations and Symbols of the Libido”), it was translated into English in 1916 as Psychology of the Unconscious and soon became Jung’s most widely known and influential work. In its author’s words, it is “an extended commentary on a practical analysis of the prodromal stages of schizophrenia”; furthermore, it is a complex study of symbolic parallels, drawn from religion, mythology, ethnology, art, literature, and psychiatry. In Jung’s view, libido is not primarily sexual but is identified with psychic energy as a whole, originating in the unconscious and appearing in consciousness as symbols.
Jung believed that this work, despite its comprehensiveness and wide influence, wanted revision because of the haste in which it had been written. Retirement gave him this opportunity, and in 1952 he pu...
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