WW Norton & Co C. G. Jung: A Biography in Books

Explores Carl Jung's theory that mythology and history of religion would begin anew, even if it was suddenly wiped away, because it lives in the human soul and describes the parallels inherent in classic and Western literature. This unusual coffee-table book offers a biography of psychotherapist C. G. Jung by alternately analyzing the books he read and their influence on him, and evoking these encounters mythically by offering reproductions of splendid images from these books and others on related themes. The text is lavishly illustrated with images primarily from books in Jung's and Martin Bodmer's libraries. The pictures range from a papyrus of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead and sixteenth-century alchemical volumes to Jung's own notebooks and his copy of Herman Hesse's The History of a Youth. Materials relating to Hindu mythology, yoga, and the Western Victorian hermeneutic tradition are fully included as well. The book will appeal to bibliophiles as well as to readers interested in Jung and Jungian analysis. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) The origins of Jung's philosophy. Autorid: Sonu Shamdasani, Sonu Shamdasani