The Tao of Jung: The Way of Integrity (Arkana S.) - Softcover

Rosen, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140195025 ISBN 13: 9780140195026

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

Drawing on Jung's own letters, aphorisms, and other writings, David Rosen examines six crises in Jung's personal development and discovers many parallels between Jung's natural world of the psyche and that of Taoist philosophy. "This beautiful little book links Jung with Lao Tzu in a way that throws new light on Taoism and the psychology of the Self" - Anthony Stevens, author of ON JUNG.

About this title

Synopsis:

This work tracks Carl Jung's life and spiritual development as the embodiment of the way of the Tao. Jung was well acquainted with the body of Tao knowledge - in his later years he was close to and worked with Wilhelm, a translator of the I Ching. Rosen finds that Jung's life and his psychology reveal the Tao at work. His description of the natural world of the psyche is similar to the natural world as described by Taoists. The essence of both philosophies is that the integration of opposites, such as shadow/persona and yin/yang, leads to wholeness. The Tao, Rosen holds, enabled Jung, who started out as a Freudian, to leave Freud in the major crisis of his life and to end up a more complete person. Rosens's book is modelled on the Tao Te Ching itself and invites readers to further explore the connection between Tao and Jung by looking to the works of the two themselves.

About the Author:

DAVID ROSEN is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst who holds the only American full professorship in Jungian psychology.

He is the author of four other books including TRANSFORMING DEPRESSION: HEALING THE SOUL THROUGH CREATIVITY, which was published by Arkana in 1997.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140195025
• ISBN 13: 9780140195026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224