Cult fictions : C.G. Jung and the founding of analytical psychology / Sonu Shamdasani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shamdasani, Sonu, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jung, C. G.

Psychoanalysis.

Jungian psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 121p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shamdasani looks into the documentary evidence for Richard Noll's claims that Jung was a would-be prophet around whom followers gathered in a hero cult. Drawing on archive material, he shows that Noll's claims are not well founded.

Controversial claims that C.G. Jung, founder of analytical psychology, was a charlatan and a self-appointed demi-god have recently brought his legacy under renewed scrutiny. The basis of the attack on Jung is a previously unknown text, said to be Jung's inaugural address at the founding of his 'cult', otherwise known as the Psychological Club, in Zurich in 1916. It is claimed that this cult is alive and well in Jungian psychology as it is practised today, in a movement which continues to masquerade as a genuine professional discipline, whilst selling false dreams of spiritual redemption. In Cult Fictions , leading Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani looks into the evidence for such claims and draws on previously unpublished documents to show that they are fallacious. This accurate and revealing account of the history of the Jungian movement, from the founding of the Psychological Club to the reformulation of Jung's approach by his followers, establishes a fresh agenda for the historical evaluation of analytical psychology today. Controversial claims that C.G. Jung, founder of analytical psychology, was a charlatan and a self-appointed demi-god have recently brought his legacy under renewed scrutiny. The basis of the attack on Jung is a previously unknown text, said to be Jung's inaugural address at the founding of his 'cult', otherwise known as the Psychological Club, in Zurich in 1916. It is claimed that this cult is alive and well in Jungian psychology as it is practised today, in a movement which continues to masquerade as a genuine professional discipline, whilst selling false dreams of spiritual redemption. In Cult Fictions , leading Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani looks into the evidence for such claims and draws on previously unpublished documents to show that they are fallacious. This accurate and revealing account of the history of the Jungian movement, from the founding of the Psychological Club to the reformulation of Jung's approach by his followers, establishes a fresh agenda for the historical evaluation of analytical psychology today.

Contents:

1. Cult and association

2. A case of mistaken identity?

3. 'The experiment must be made'

4. The tribunal

5. The imitation of Christ

6. A text in search of an author

7. Sister Maria

8. The cult that never was.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-117) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-66461-3

9786610073351

1-280-07335-7

1-134-66462-1

0-203-36076-1

0-203-37752-4

9780203360767

OCLC:

560455823