Jung: A Very Short Introduction

by Stevens, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780192854582
• ISBN10: 0192854585
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the most lucid and timely introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung available to date. Though he was a prolific writer and an original thinker of vast erudition, Jung lacked a gift for clear exposition, and his ideas are less widely appreciated than they deserve to be. Now, in this extremely accessible introduction, Anthony Stevens--one of Britain's foremost Jungian analysts--clearly explains the basic concepts of Jungian psychology: the collective unconscious, complex, archetype, shadow, persona, anima, animus, and the individualization of the Self. A small masterpiece of insight and concision, this volume offers a clear portrait of one of the twentieth century's most important and controversial thinkers.

Author Biography

Anthony Stevens is also the author of Archetype: A Natural History of the Self (1982), On Jung (1990), and, most recently, The Two Million-Year-Old Self (1993).

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

The man and his psychology

Archetypes and the collective unconsious

The stages of life

Psychological types

Dreams

Therapy

Jung's alleged anti-Semitism

The summing-up

Further Reading

Index

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