How and Why We Still Read Jung: Personal and professional reflections - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415686482 ISBN 13: 9780415686488

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

How relevant is Jung’s work today?

How and Why We Still Read Jung offers a fresh look at how Jung’s work can still be read and applied to the modern day. Written by seasoned Jungian analysts and Jung scholars, the essays in this collection offer in depth and often personal readings of various works by Jung, including:

Ambiguating Jung

Jung and Alchemy: A Diamonic Reading

Chinese Modernity and the Way of Return

Jung: Respect for the Non-Literal

Including contributions from around the world, this book will be of interest to Jungian analysts and academic Jung scholars globally. With a unique and fresh analysis of Jung’s work by eminent authors in the field, this book will also be a valuable starting point for a first-time reader of Jung.

About this title

About the Author

Jean Kirsch is a Jungian analyst practising in Palo Alto, California. A graduate of Stanford University Medical School, she is a member and past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is a member of the training faculty at the C. G. Jung Institute.

Murray Stein is a training and supervising analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich (ISAPZurich). He is a former president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) and of ISAPZurich.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415686482
• ISBN 13: 9780415686488
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Kirsch Jean, Stein Murray