Ages of Anxiety - Auden Reading Jung in Times of War

Craig E. Stephenson's Ages of Anxiety examines how W. H. Auden in his Pulitzer Prize winning poem, The Age of Anxiety, used C. G. Jung's psychological types to structure and explore his responses to war and the rise of fascism.

List of contents

1. Auden, War Poet 2. Auden's Use of Jung's Typology 3. Creative Extrapolations: Bernstein, Robbins, Neumeier and Scarlett 4. The Anxiety of Individuation: Stossel and Dr. W. 5 In the Secular Night: Anxiety in Auden's Cosmology

About the author

Craig E. Stephenson is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute Zürich, the Institute for Psychodrama, Zürich, and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. His most recent book, The Correspondence of Victoria Ocampo, Count Keyserling and C. G. Jung (Routledge, 2023) won the NAAP's Gradiva Award.

Product details

• Authors: Craig E. Stephenson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 25.06.2025
• EAN: 9781041030423
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4103042-3
• No. of pages: 124
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Poetry, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Theatre Studies, Abnormal psychology, Literature: history & criticism, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Literature: history and criticism, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Jungian