The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche Including "Synchronicity: an Acausal Connecting Principle"; (Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 8)

Jung, C.G.

ISBN 10: 0691097747 / ISBN 13: 9780691097749

Edité par Princeton University Press, 1969

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588pp. This is the 5th printing of 1981. Light foxing to the top edge else near new condition, covers bright, text clean and binding tight in a like dust jacket which is now in a clear protective mylar sleeve. N° de réf. du vendeur 225402

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Titre : The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche ...

Éditeur : Princeton University Press

Date d'édition : 1969

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette

Edition : Second edition.

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Synopsis :

An authoritative collection of Jung's writings on analytical psychology, including Synchronicity

The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche features a selection of Jung's writings, ranging over four decades of his career, which illustrate the development of the conceptual foundations of analytical psychology. These pieces span the period from Jung's break with Freud and the psychoanalytical school, when Jung began formulating his own theories, to the 1950s, when he published an account of his controversial theory of synchronicity.

The contents are: On Psychic Energy - The Transcendent Function - A Review of the Complex Theory - The Significance of Constitution and Heredity in Psychology - Psychological Factors Determining Human Behavior - Instinct and the Unconscious - The Structure of the Psyche - On the Nature of the Psyche - General Aspects of Dream Psychology - On the Nature of Dreams - The Psychological Foundation of Belief in Spirits - Spirit and Life - Basic Postulates of Analytical Psychology - Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung - The Real and the Surreal - The Stages of Life - The Soul and Death - Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle - On Synchronicity

Présentation de l'éditeur:

The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche first appeared in the Collected Works in 1960. In this new edition bibliographical citations and entries have been revised in the light of subsequent publications in the Collected Works, and essential corrections have been made.

The book traces an important line of development in Jung's thought from 1912 onwards. The earliest of the papers elaborates Freud's concept of sexual libido into that of psychic energy. In those that follow we see how, Jung, discarding one by one the traditional 'philosophical' hypotheses, gradually arrived at a concept which is even more controversial than psychic energy was in its day ^DDL namely, psychic reality. The book contains the first mention of the archetype in Jung's writings as well as his later views on its nature. There is also a valuable account of the therapeutic uses of 'active imagination' first described in an essay written in 1916.