Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido - Supplementary Volume B

Unavailable for many years, this edition presents the original English translation of Jung's most famous and influential work. A key text for understanding the formation of Jung's ideas.

List of contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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TRANSLATOR'S N O T E
AUTHOR'S NOTE
PART 1
Introduction
I. Concerning the Two Kinds o f Thinking
II. The Miller Phantasies
III. The Hymn o f Creation
IV. The Song o f the Moth
PART II
I. Aspects o f the Libido
II. The Conception and the Genetic Theory of Libido
III. The Transform ation o f the Libido. A Possible Source o f Primitive Human Discoveries
IV. The Unconscious Origin o f the Hero
V. Symbolism o f the Mother and o f Rebirth
VI. The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother
VII. The Dual Mother Role
VIII. The Sacrifice
Index

About the author

William McGuire, a writer and editor, has edited The Freud/Jung Letters and was executive editor of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung (both Princeton). Eugene I. Taylor is on the Executive Faculty at the Saybrook Institute. He is also Lecturer of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Senior Psychologist on the Psychiatry Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the author of several books, including William James on Consciousness beyond the Margin (Princeton).

Summary

Unavailable for many years, this edition presents the original English translation of Jung's most famous and influential work. A key text for understanding the formation of Jung's ideas.

Product details

• Authors: C. G. Jung
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032602301
• ISBN: 978-1-03-260230-1
• No. of pages: 466
• Weight: 880 g
• Series: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis