El hombre y sus símbolos (Nueva Edicion)

by C.G. Jung, Luis Escolar Bareño (translator)

La obra que sintetiza la contribución de Carl Jung al conocimiento de la mente.

Esta es la primera y única obra de Carl G. Jung, el famoso psicólogo suizo, dedicada a explicar a los lectores cuál fue su mayor contribución al conocimiento de la mente la teoría del simbolismo y, en especial, el papel que ésta desempeña en los sueños.

El autor no se dedica solo a subrayar que el hombre únicamente podrá alcanzar su plenitud conociendo y aceptando el inconsciente, es decir, analizando los sueños y sus símbolos; sino también a demostrar que todo sueño es un mensaje directo, personal y significativo que utiliza los símbolos comunes a toda la humanidad de una forma totalmente individualizada, que a su vez debe interpretarse mediante una clave también individual.

Acompañado de más de quinientas ilustraciones que proporcionan un comentario rápido y excepcional del pensamiento del autor y a partir del análisis de la naturaleza y la función de los sueños, en El hombre y sus símbolos Jung explora, entre otras cosas, el significado simbólico del arte contemporáneo y los significados psicológicos de las experiencias más corrientes de la vida cotidiana.

328 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2023

About the author

Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death.

The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.

Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.

Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the "psychologization of religion", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.