C.G.Jung: Lord of the Underworld

By Colin Wilson

Book Overview

An accessible introduction to the life and work of one of the key figures in analytical psychology.

Carl Gustav Jung is one of the seminal figures in the history of depth psychology. An enormously influential and original thinker, Jung was for some time Freud's principal disciple, but he became more and more critical of the Freudian emphasis on repressed sexual tendencies and after the publication of Symbols of Transformation in 1912, Jung broke away from Freud to develop his own technique of 'analytical psychology'.

Jung's clinical work and, perhaps more importantly, his own experience of so-called occult phenomena led him to formulate and describe a number of key concepts, which have now passed into general currency, including the theory of archetypes; the collective unconscious; synchronicity; and the idea of 'active imagination, a technique of conscious dreaming.

With characteristic fluency, Colin Wilson weaves a fascinating biographical narrative with a penetrating analysis of Jung's ideas, providing a clear, readable introduction to his life and work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904658288
• ISBN13: 9781904658283
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Aeon Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Lord of the Collective Unconscious

If you have not been able read Jung due to the sheer number of works he produced, here is a critical summary for you. Wilson is probably one of the most well-read humans living today. Here he has taken on the challenge of reading Jung and has managed a coherent summary of Jung's life and his writings. The primary virtue of this book is that Wilson has created a starting place for the beginning reader of Jung.