Carl Jung

274 Pages·2014·2.26 MB·English

by  Bishop

Carl Jung
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Carl Jung
Paul Bishop
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Contents
Abbreviations 8
Introduction: Biography and/as Poetry/Truth 9
1 A Child of Goethe 22
2 Secrets: Manikins and Pencil-cases in the Loft 41
3 Science or Spiritism? 64
4 Occultism, Psychoanalysis and Beyond 90
5 Out with the New, in with the (Very) Old:
From Psychoanalysis to Analytical Psychology 127
6 Back to the Future: Bollingen and Alchemy 148
7 A Voyage of Discovery to the Other Pole of the World 179
Conclusion: Jung’s Death and the Legacy of Analytical
Psychology 207
References 217
Select Bibliography 261
Acknowledgements 269
Photo Acknowledgements 271
in memoriam
Robert Currie
(1940–2012)
God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.
Byadream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are
sleeping in their beds: Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching, instructeth
them in what they are to learn. That he may withdraw a man from the things he
isdoing, and may deliver him from pride. Rescuing his soul from corruption:
andhis life from passing to the sword.
Job 33:14–18, drv
Only the gaze turned backwards can take us forwards, for the gaze turned
forwards leads backwards.
Novalis, Fragments– General Draft, §31
Carl Jung, 1960.
Abbreviations
cw C. G. Jung, Collected Works, ed. Sir Herbert Read, Michael Fordham,
Gerhard Adler, and William McGuire, 20vols (London, 1953–83)
pu C. G. Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations
and Symbolisms of the Libido: A Contribution to the History of the Evolution
of Thought, trans. Beatrice M. Hinkle, intro. William McGuire
(London, 1991)
rb C. G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus, ed. Sonu Shamdasani, trans. Mark
Kyburz, John Peck and Sonu Shamdasani (New York and London, 2009)
snz C. G. Jung, Seminar on Nietzsche’s ‘Zarathustra’: Notes of the Seminar given
in 1934–1939, ed. James L. Jarrett, 2vols (London, 1989)
l C. G. Jung, Letters, ed. Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffé, trans. R.F.C. Hull,
2vols (London, 1973–5)
mdr Aniela Jaffé, ed., C. G. Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections, trans. Richard
and Clara Winston (London, 1983)
se Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund
Freud, general eds J. Strachey and A. Freud, 24vols (London, 1953–74)
f/j The Freud-Jung Letters: The Correspondence between Sigmund Freud and
C. G. Jung, ed. William McGuire, trans. Ralph Manheim and R.F.C. Hull
(Cambridge, ma, 1988)
ge Goethe Edition= Goethe’s Collected Works, ed. Victor Lange, Eric A.
Blackall and Cyrus Hamlin, 12vols (Boston, ma, and New York, 1983–9)
ha Goethe, Werke [Hamburger Ausgabe], ed. Erich Trunz, 14vols (Hamburg,
1948–60; Munich, 1981). Cited as Werke[ha]; Briefe, ed. Kurt Robert
Mandelkow, 4vols (Hamburg, 1962–7). Cited as Briefe[ha]
wa Goethe, Werke[Weimarer Ausgabe], ed. on behalf of Großherzogin
Sophie von Sachsen, 4parts, 133vols in 143(Weimar, 1887–1919). Cited
as Werke[wa]