Carl Gustav Jung - Softcover

McLynn, Frank

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ISBN 10: 0552995622 ISBN 13: 9780552995627

Publisher: Transworld Pub, 2000

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Controversial for his right-wing views and sexual promiscuity, Jung's writings showed him to be an original and innovative thinker. They have uncovered, amongst others, the universal symbols of the collective unconscious and the role of dreams in the journey towards psychic wholeness. With his theory of synchronicity and his interest in myth and oriental religion, he represents a direct antithesis to Freudian thought. In recent years Swiss psychologist Carl Jung has emerged as a favourite philosopher, a hero of the New Age and a source of "alternative" modes of thought. This biography examines in depth the life and work of this one-time protege of Sigmund Freud, who later emerged from the shadow of his mentor after a famous quarrel which dogged him for most of his life.

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Critical Praise for Frank McLynn's Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography:

"Complex, controversial, and profoundly influential, Jung presents the biographer with Herculean tasks, and McLynn's performance is heroic." --Booklist (Starred Review)

"McLynn has written an admirably honest book that is both lively and objective and deserves a wide readership." --Los Angeles Times

"We are indebted to biographer Frank McLynn for pulling together [this] single, logically organized, and well-written volume." --San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

"This very solid, well-paced biography will help readers understand both why Jung was so intensely admired and hated." --Kirkus Reviews

"The best account of Jung yet published." --The Evening Standard

"[A] perfectly superb biography of Jung...McLynn's painfully accumulated evidence is handled scrupulously." --The Independent Weekend

"Meticulously researched and altogether remarkable." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Frank McLynn is a distinguished biographer who has taken on such varied and challenging subject matters as Robert Louis Stevenson, the European exploration of Africa in Hearts of Darkness, and Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England. He lives in England.

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