Psychology of the Unconscious : A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido / C. G. Jung, William McGuire, and Beatrice M. Hinkle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jung, C. G., 1875-1961, author.

McGuire, William, author.

Hinkle, Beatrice M., author.

Series:

Thé̂ giới động vật diệu kỳ ; Volume 5.

The Collected Works of C. G. Jung - Supplements Series ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mother and child.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Sex (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1916]

Summary:

"This book became a landmark, set up on the spot where two ways divided. Because of its imperfections and its incompleteness it laid down the program to be followed for the next few decades of my life." Thus wrote C. G. Jung about his most famous and influential work, the one that marked the beginning of his divergence from the psychoanalytic school of Freud. In this book Jung explores the fantasy system of Frank Miller, the young American woman whose account of her poetic and vivid mental images helped lead him to his redefinition of libido while encouraging his explorations in mythology. Published in 1912 as Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, this is a key text for the study of the formation of Jung's ideas and for understanding his personal and psychological condition during this crucial time. Miller's fantasies, with their mythological implications, supported Jung's notion that libido is not primarily sexual energy, as Freud had described it, but rather psychic energy in general, which springs from the unconscious and appears in consciousness as symbols. Jung shows how libido organizes itself as a metaphorical "hero," who first battles for deliverance from the "mother," the symbol of the unconscious, in order to become conscious, then returns to the unconscious for renewal. Jung's analytical commentary on these fantasies is a complex study of symbolic parallels derived from mythology, religion, ethnology, art, literature, and psychiatry, and foreshadows his fundamental concept of the collective unconscious and its contents, the archetypes.

Contents:

Cover Page

Half-title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Introduction

Translator's Note

Author's Note

Part-I

I. Concerning the Two Kinds of Thinking

II. The Miller Phantasies

III. The Hymn of Creation

IV. The Song of the Moth

Part- II

I. Aspects of the Libido

II. The Conception and the Genetic Theory of Libido

III. The Transformation of the Libido. A Possible Source of Primitive Human Discoveries

IV. The Unconscious Origin of the Hero

V. Symbolism of the Mother and of Rebirth

VI. The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother

VII. The Dual Mother Role

VIII. The Sacrifice

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-27950-0

0-691-26293-4

OCLC:

1414455401