Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido

C. G. Jung

Published by Princeton University Press 1992

Psychology of the Unconscious

A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido

C. G. Jung
Edited by: William McGuire
Translated by: Beatrice M. Hinkle

Part of the multi-volume work Collected Works of C.G. Jung - Supplements

In the series Bollingen Series (General)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691262932

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"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.

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William McGuire, a writer and editor, has edited The Freud/Jung Letters and was executive editor of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung (both Princeton). Eugene I. Taylor is on the Executive Faculty at the Saybrook Institute. He is also Lecturer of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Senior Psychologist on the Psychiatry Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the author of several books, including William James on Consciousness beyond the Margin (Princeton).

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"Jung is readable in this first exciting bloom of his extraordinary journey into the unconscious."---Joseph C. Mark, Contemporary Psychology

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Foreword Eugene Taylor Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction William McGuire Publicly Available Download PDF	xxvii
Translator's Note Publicly Available Download PDF	xliii
Author's Note Publicly Available Download PDF	xlv
Dedication Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I.
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
I. Concerning the Two Kinds of Thinking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
II. The Miller Phantasies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
III. The Hymn of Creation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
IV. The Song of the Moth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Part II.
I. Aspects of the Libido Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
II. The Conception and the Genetic Theory of Libido Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
III. The Transformation of the Libido. A Possible Source of Primitive Human Discoveries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
IV. The Unconscious Origin of the Hero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
V. Symbolism of the Mother and of Rebirth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
VI. The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
VII. The Dual Mother Role Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
VIII. The Sacrifice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
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Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;College/higher education;
Pages
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