Vybrané spisy C. G. Junga

by C.G. Jung

Genres: Psychology

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

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.

Reviews

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

Další skvělá kniha od Junga nebo spíše transkript jeho přednášek. První série přednášek je velmi zajímavá a složitá. Jako při každém díle od Junga jsem musel často přečíst daný odstavec tak 5x, abych opravdu porozuměl, co tím chtěl říci. V další části jednotlivých přednášek jsou zmíněné přístupy k psychoterapiím a náboženství, což mi opět jako ateistovi otevřelo nové pohledy, jak se dívat na náboženství.