The Essential Jung

Selected and introduced by Anthony Storr

C. G. Jung

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780691029351, 9780691086156
• eBook ISBN: 9781400849239
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychoanalysis
• Index: Psychology

In this compact volume, British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Storr has selected extracts from Jung's writings that pinpoint his many original contributions and relate the development of his thought to his biography. Storr's explanatory notes and introduction show the progress and coherence of Jung's ideas. These notes link the extracts, and with Dr. Storr's introduction, they show the progress and coherence of Jung's ideas, including such concepts as the collective unconscious, the archetypes, introversion and extroversion, individuation, and Jung's view of integration as the goal of the development of the personality.Jung maintained that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves and that our most pressing task is to deflect our gaze away from the external world and toward the study of our own nature. In a world torn by conflict and threatened by annihilation, his message has an urgent relevance for every thoughtful person.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword to the 2013 Edition
• Note on the Text
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part 1 Jung’s Early Work
• Part 2 Jung’s Involvement with Freud and His Divergence from Freud’s Theories
• Part 3 The Development of the Idea of the Collective Unconscious and of Archetypes
• Part 4 Archetypes: Shadow; Anima; Animus; the Persona; the Old Wise Man
• Part 5 Psychological Types and the Self-regulating Psyche
• Part 6 The Development of the Individual
• Part 7 Integration, Wholeness, and the Self
• Part 8 Self and Opposites: God and the Problem of Evil
• Part 9 “Unus Mundus and Synchronicity
• Part 10 Man and His Future
• Chronology of Jung’s Life and Work
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index