Jung on Evil

by Jung, Carl Gustav

• ISBN13: 9780691026176
• ISBN10: 0691026173
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-07-08
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Well-known for his articulation of the "shadow side" of human individuality and culture, C. G. Jung wrote a great deal about the question of evil throughout his life and in scattered places in his work. In this book his position is pieced together from many sources. In his early work on the unconscious, for instance, he considered the role of evil in the mental processes of the severely disturbed. Later, he viewed the question of moral choice within the framework of his ideas about archetypes and discussions about moral choices, conscience, and the continual ethical reflection that is necessary for all of us. The material here includes letters to Freud and Father Victor White and selections from his writings ranging from hisAnswer to Jobto his travel piece on North Africa.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(24)
A letter to Freud	25	(2)
Introduction to the religious and psychological problems of alchemy	27	(15)
The spirit Mercurius	42	(7)
The problem of the fourth	49	(23)
Two letters to Father Victor White	72	(12)
Good and evil in analytical psychology	84	(11)
The shadow	95	(3)
North Africa	98	(6)
A psychological view of conscience	104	(15)
Answer to Job	119	(55)
The fight with the shadow	174	(7)
After the catastrophe	181	(19)
Sources and acknowledgements	200	(1)
Index	201