Civilization in Transition
by C. G. Jung
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Essays bearing on the contemporary scene and on the relation of the individual to society, including papers written during the 1920s and 1930s focusing on the upheaval in Germany, and two major works of Jung's last years, The Undiscovered Self and Flying Saucers. ?Tags
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Civilization in Transition features Jung’s writings on contemporary events, especially the relation between the individual and society. In the earliest essay, “The Role of the Unconscious” (1918), Jung advanced the theory that World War I was a psychological crisis originating in the collective unconscious of individuals. In other essays included here, he pursued this theory in the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on the upheaval in Germany, and he gave it a much wider application in two major works of his last years, also featured here—The Undiscovered Self, which is concerned with the relation between the individual and a mass society, and Flying Saucers, on the birth of a myth that Jung regarded as a reaction to the scientific show more trends of a technological era.
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The Role of the Unconscious -- Mind and Earth -- Archaic Man -- The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man -- The Love Problem of a Student -- Woman in Europe -- The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man -- The State of Psychotherapy Today -- Preface to Essays on Contemporary Events -- Wotan -- After the Catastrophe -- The Fight with the Shadow -- Epilogue to Essays on Contemporary Events -- The Undiscovered Self (Present and Future) : The Plight of the Individual in Modern Society ; Religion as the Counterbalance to Mass-Mindedness ; The Position of the West on the Question of Religion ; The Individual's Understanding of Himself ; The Philosophical and the Psychological Approach to Life ; Self-Knowledge ; The Meaning of Self-Knowledge -- Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies : Ufos as Rumours ; Ufos in Dreams ; Ufos in Modern Painting ; Previous History of the Ufo Phenomenon ; Ufos Considered in a Non-Psychological Light -- A Psychological View of Conscience -- Good and Evil in Analytical Psychology -- Introduction to Toni Wolff's Studies In Jungian Psychology -- The Swiss Line in the European Spectrum -- The Rise of a New World -- La Revolution Mondiale -- The Complications of American Psychology -- The Dreamlike World of India -- What India Can Teach Us. Source: UCLA Berkeley online catalogue
Review: Princeton University Pr, March 19, 2024 new paperback edition:
In paperback for the first time, an authoritative collection of Jung’s writings on contemporary events, including The Undiscovered Self and Flying Saucers show less
CONTENTS:
The Role of the Unconscious -- Mind and Earth -- Archaic Man -- The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man -- The Love Problem of a Student -- Woman in Europe -- The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man -- The State of Psychotherapy Today -- Preface to Essays on Contemporary Events -- Wotan -- After the Catastrophe -- The Fight with the Shadow -- Epilogue to Essays on Contemporary Events -- The Undiscovered Self (Present and Future) : The Plight of the Individual in Modern Society ; Religion as the Counterbalance to Mass-Mindedness ; The Position of the West on the Question of Religion ; The Individual's Understanding of Himself ; The Philosophical and the Psychological Approach to Life ; Self-Knowledge ; The Meaning of Self-Knowledge -- Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies : Ufos as Rumours ; Ufos in Dreams ; Ufos in Modern Painting ; Previous History of the Ufo Phenomenon ; Ufos Considered in a Non-Psychological Light -- A Psychological View of Conscience -- Good and Evil in Analytical Psychology -- Introduction to Toni Wolff's Studies In Jungian Psychology -- The Swiss Line in the European Spectrum -- The Rise of a New World -- La Revolution Mondiale -- The Complications of American Psychology -- The Dreamlike World of India -- What India Can Teach Us. Source: UCLA Berkeley online catalogue
Review: Princeton University Pr, March 19, 2024 new paperback edition:
In paperback for the first time, an authoritative collection of Jung’s writings on contemporary events, including The Undiscovered Self and Flying Saucers show less
En este volumen pueden encontrarse los siguientes textos de C. G. Jung: Sobre lo inconsciente; Alma y tierra; El hombre arcaico; El problema anímico del hombre moderno; Sobre el problema amoroso del estudiante universitario; La mujer en Europa; El significado de la psicología para el presente; Acerca de la situación actual de la psicoterapia; Prólogo al libro Reflexiones sobre la historia actual; Presente y futuro; Un mito moderno. De cosas que se ven en el cielo; La conciencia moral; El bien y el mal en la Psicología Analítica; Prólogo al libro de Toni Wollf Studien zu C. G. Jungs Psychologie; El significado de la línea suiza en el espectro de Europa; El amanecer de un mundo nuevo; Reseña de H. Keyserling La révolution show more mondiale et la responsabilité de lesprit; Complicaciones de la psicología norteamericana; El mundo ensoñador de la India; lo que la India puede enseñarnos; Apéndice: Nueve comunicaciones breves. show less
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Carl Gustav Jung was born in Switzerland on July 26, 1875. He originally set out to study archaeology, but switched to medicine and began practicing psychiatry in Basel after receiving his degree from the University of Basel in 1902. He became one of the most famous of modern psychologists and psychiatrists. Jung first met Sigmund Freud in 1907 show more when he became his foremost associate and disciple. The break came with the publication of Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious (1912), which did not follow Freud's theories of the libido and the unconscious. Jung eventually rejected Freud's system of psychoanalysis for his own "analytic psychology." This emphasizes present conflicts rather than those from childhood; it also takes into account the conflict arising from what Jung called the "collective unconscious"---evolutionary and cultural factors determining individual development. Jung invented the association word test and contributed the word complex to psychology, and first described the "introvert" and "extrovert" types. His interest in the human psyche, past and present, led him to study mythology, alchemy, oriental religions and philosophies, and traditional peoples. Later he became interested in parapsychology and the occult. He thought that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) might be a psychological projection of modern people's anxieties. He wrote several books including Studies in Word Association, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, and Psychology and Alchemy. He died on June 6, 1961 after a short illness. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Civilization in Transition
- Original title
- Zivilisation im Übergang
- Original publication date
- 1964
- Original language
- German
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