Jung on Mythology

Name: Jung on Mythology
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ISBN: 9780691017365

ISBN-10: 0691017360

ISBN-13: 9780691017365

Edition: 1998

Authors: C. G. Jung, Robert A. Segal

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At least three major questions can be asked of myth: what is its subject matter? what is its origin? and what is its function? Theories of myth may differ on the answers they give to any of these questions, but more basically they may also differ on which of the questions they ask. C. G. Jung's theory is one of the few that purports to answer fully all three questions. This volume collects and organizes the key passages on myth by Jung himself and by some of the most prominent Jungian writers after him: Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz, and James Hillman. The book synthesizes the discovery of myth as a way of thinking, where it becomes a therapeutic tool providing an entrance to the…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/16/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction



Jung vis-a-vis Freud on Myth



Jung's Freudian Interpretation of Myth


from "The Theory of Psychoanalysis"


from "The Theory of Psychoanalysis"



Jung's Rejection of Freud's Theory of Myth


from "The Significance of the Father in the Destiny of the Individual"


from "Introduction to Kranefeldt's 'Secret Ways of the Mind'"


from "The Concept of the Collective Unconscious"


from C. G. Jung Speaking



The Origin of Myth



The Similarities among Myths


from "Schiller's Ideas on the Type Problem"


from "On the Psychology of the Unconscious"


from "The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious"


from "Commentary on 'The Secret of the Golden Flower'"


from "The Philosophical Tree"


from "Fundamental Questions of Psychotherapy"



Independent Invention Rather Than Diffusion as the Source of the Similarities


from "The Significance of Constitution and Heredity in Psychology"


from "The Psychology of the Child Archetype"



Rejection of the Experience of the External World as the Source of Independent Invention


from "General Description of the Types"


from "Definitions"


from "On Psychic Energy"


from "Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious"


from "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth"


from "Marginalia on Contemporary Events"


Letter to Baroness Tinti (10 January 1936)



Independent Invention as the Projection of the Unconscious onto the External World


from "Symbols of the Mother and of Rebirth"


from "The Dual Mother"


from "The Type Problem in Poetry"


from "On the Psychology of the Unconscious"


from "On the Psychology of the Unconscious"


from "The Structure of the Psyche"



Independent Invention as the Projection of the Collective Rather Than the Personal Unconscious onto the External World


from "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth"


from "The Psychology of Eastern Meditation"


from "The Philosophical Tree"



Myths and Archetypes


from "Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious"


from "The Psychology of the Child Archetype"



The Function of Myth



Revealing the Unconscious


from "The Psychology of the Child Archetype"


from "The Dual Mother"


from "A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity"



Encountering the Unconscious


from "Background to the Psychology of Christian Alchemical Symbolism"


from "Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon"


from "The Conjunction"


from "Principles of Practical Psychotherapy"



Making Life Meaningful


from "The Psychology of the Child Archetype"


from "The Archetype in Dream Symbolism"


from "The Function of Religious Symbols"


from Memories, Dreams, Reflections



Abetting Therapy


from "Schizophrenia"


from "The Aims of Psychotherapy"


from "Foreword to the First Volume of Studies from the C. G. Jung Institute"



Providing Models for Behavior


from C. G. Jung Speaking



Myths and Dreams/Fantasies


from "The Theory of Psychoanalysis"


from "The Theory of Psychoanalysis"


from "The Role of the Unconscious"


from "Analytical Psychology and Education"


from "The Tavistock Lectures: Lecture II"


from "Foreword to Perry: The Self in Psychotic Progress"


from C. G. Jung Speaking



Myth as a Way of Thinking


from "Two Kinds of Thinking"



Kinds of Myths



Myths of the Child


From "The Psychology of the Child Archetype"



Myths of the Hero


from "The Origin of the Hero"


from "The Origin of the Hero"


from "Symbols of the Mother and of Rebirth"


from "Symbols of the Mother and of Rebirth"


from "The Dual Mother"


from "The Dual Mother"


from "The Dual Mother"


from "The Dual Mother"


from "On the Psychology of the Unconscious"


from "Religious Ideas in Alchemy"


from "The Conjunction"


from "The Tavistock Lectures: Lecture III"



Personal Myths


from Memories, Dreams, Reflections


from Memories, Dreams, Reflections



Myths and Primitives


from "Two Kinds of Thinking"


from "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype"


from "The Psychology of the Child Archetype"


from "A Psychological View of Conscience"



Myths and Moderns



The Demythicizing of the External World


from "The Philosophical Tree"



The Continued Existence of Traditional Myths


from "Psychology and Literature"



The Revival of Traditional Myths "Wotan"


from "The Fight with the Shadow"



The Creation of Distinctively Modern Myths


from "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth"



Myth as Never Superseded


from "Two Kinds of Thinking"



Earlier Psychological Interpretations of Myth


from "The Personification of the Opposites"


from "The Conjunction"



Myth and Religion


from "The Undiscovered Self (Present and Future)"


from "The Undiscovered Self (Present and Future)"


from "Psychology and Religion"


from "Foreword to White's God and the Unconscious"


from "Answer to Job"


from "Rex and Regina"


from "Jung and Religious Belief"


from Memories, Dreams, Reflections


from Letter to Dorothee Hoch (23 September 1952)


from Letter to Upton Sinclair (7 January 1955)


from Letter to Pastor Tanner (12 February 1959)



Erich Neumann


Introduction to The Origins and History of Consciousness



Marie-Louise von Franz


from Patterns of Creativity Mirrored in Creation Myths



James Hillman


from Re-Visioning Psychology


Index