How to Read Jung: 0 - Softcover

David Tacey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393329534 ISBN 13: 9780393329537

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

Synopsis

The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as C. G. Jung's dynamic vision of the self, pitted against an ailing Western civilization. Jung was the original anti-psychiatrist, who believed that the real patient was not the suffering individual, but a sick and ailing Western civilization. His true aim, in all of his work, was a therapy of the West. David Tacey introduces the reader to Jung's unique style and approach, which is at once scientific and prophetic. He explores the radical themes at the core of Jung's psychology, and interprets the dynamic vision of the whole self that inspires and motivates Jung's work.

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Review:

Academic revival of interest in Jung, which has resulted in the recent re-establishment of the International Association for Jungian Studies *Recent success of Jungian self help books such as Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul, or Robert Bly's Iron John David Tacey is recognised as a leading writer on Jung Adding to 10 other titles currently available in the How to Read series

About the Author:

David Tacey is Associate Professor of English and Reader in Psychoanalytic Studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He is the author of eight books on psychoanalysis and cultural studies, including Jung and the New Age and The Spirituality Revolution and co-editor (with Ann Casement) of The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research, and a part-time professor of philosophy at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. His many books include Infinitely Demanding, Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity and, most recently, The Book of Dead Philosophers.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0393329534
• ISBN 13: 9780393329537
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144