How and why we still read Jung : personal and professional reflections / edited by Jean Kirsch and Murray Stein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirsch, Jean.

Stein, Murray, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.

Jung, C. G.

Jungian psychology.

Physical Description:

xi, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

How and Why We Still Read Jung offers a fresh look at how Jung's work can still be read and applied to the modern day. Written by seasoned Jungian analysts and Jung scholars, the essays in this collection offer in depth and often personal readings of various works by Jung, including discussion of: Ambiguating Jung, Jung and Alchemy: a diamonic reading, Chinese modernity and the way of return, Jung: respect for the non-literal, Including contributions from around the world, this book will be of interest to Jungian analysts and academic Jung scholars globally. With a unique and fresh analysis of Jung's work by eminent authors in the field, this book will also be a valuable starting point for a first-time reader of Jung. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Ambiguating Jung / Mark Saban Saban, Mark 6

2 A Lecture for the End of Time - "Concerning Rebirth" / Murray Stein Stein, Murray 26

3 Jung and Alchemy: A Daimonic Reading / Stanton Marlan Marlan, Stanton 46

4 On Reading Jung in German: Jung's Significance for Germanistik / Paul Bishop Bishop, Paul 66

5 Reading Jung for Magic: "Active Imagination" for/as "Close Reading" / Susan Rowland Rowland, Susan 86

6 Reading Frye Reading Jung / Craig Stephenson Stephenson, Craig 107

7 Tangled Up in Blue: A Reappraisal of Complex Theory / Betsy Cohen Cohen, Betsy 127

8 Chinese Modernity and the Way of Return / Shiuya Sara Liuh Liuh, Shiuya Sara 144

9 Philosophy, the Thinking Function, and the Reading of Jung / George B. Hogenson Hogenson, George B. 161

10 Jung: Respect for the Non-literal / David Tacey Tacey, David 178

11 A Lifelong Reading of Jung / Thomas B. Kirsch Kirsch, Thomas B. 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780415686471

0415686474

9780415686488

0415686482

OCLC:

820942442