C.G. Jung: The Collected Works: Volume Three: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease

Jung, C.G.; Read, Herbert; Fordham, Michael; Adler, Gerhard, (Eds.); Hull, R.F.C. (Transl.)

ISBN 10: 0710016344 / ISBN 13: 9780710016348

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977

Hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. From the collection of Dr. Coline (Kitty) Covington, (1953-2023), a distinguished Jungian psychoanalyst and former chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Ownership penned to front pastedown. Light shelf and handling wear, including minor creasing and wear to dust jacket and light tanning to pageblock. Small chip noted to DJ spine foot. Blue cloth boards in fine condition, pages tightly bound, content unmarked. CN. Seller Inventory # 616652

Synopsis:

'Psychotic contents, especially in paranoid cases, show close analogies with the type of dream that the primitive aptly calls a 'big dream'. Unlike ordinary dreams, such a dream is highly impressive, numinous, and its imagery frequently makes use of motifs analagous to or even identical with those of mythology. I call these structures archetypes because they function in a way similar to instinctual patterns of behaviour.'

The importance of this volume of Jung's writings on psychosis can scarcely be overrated both in historical terms and for the understanding of Jung's psychology. It begins with his famous work, 'The Psychology of Dementia Praecox'. It was this work that established his reputation as a psychiatric investigator of the first rank and it was this work also that engaged Freud's interest and led to their eventual famous meeting. The research in this work contains the seed of his theoretica divergence form psychoanalysis.

Following on from this are a further nine papers on psychopathology and schizophrenia revealing Jung's original thinking in this area and providing valuable insight into the development of his later concepts such as the archetypes and the collective unconscious.

From the Back Cover: The importance of this volume of scientific papers for understanding Jung's researchers as a whole can scarcely be overrated, even though most of them are now mainly of historical interest or represent the reflections of his later years on a subject that never ceased to engage his active psychotherapeutic endeavors.

Bibliographic Details

Title: C.G. Jung: The Collected Works: Volume Three...
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
Publication Date: 1977
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good