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Jung – The Key Ideas

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Teach YourselfJung – The Key IdeasRuth Snowden

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ContentsMeet the authorOnly got a minute?Only got five minutes?Only got ten minutes?Introduction1 Jung’s life and careerJung’s family backgroundA brief outline of Jung’s careerJung’s private life and personality2 Jung’s early lifeBoyhoodEducationScientific thinking at the turn of the last centuryJung’s interest in spiritualismBurghölzliJung and Freud3 Jung’s inner worldJung’s midlife crisisCreative playDreams, visions and fantasiesDiscovering archetypesMandalasThe tower at Bollingen4 Exploring the psycheThe structure of the psycheThe personal unconsciousThe collective unconsciousThe ego and the SelfThe shadow and projectionThe personaAnima and animus5 The journey of the psycheThe journey of the psycheArchetypal stages of developmentIndividuation and the SelfSex and genderRites of passageMidlife crisisAgeing6 Dreams and symbolsThe importance of dreamsSymbolsThe origins of dreamsArchetypes in dreamsAnalysing dreamsJung’s house dream7 The personality and relationshipsThe psychology of consciousnessIntroversion and extroversionThe four functionsThe eight psychological typesWhat determines the psychological typeForming relationships8 The esoteric and the paranormal

GnosticismAlchemyThe I-ChingSynchronicityAstrologyAs above so below9 Religion and spiritualityJung’s spiritual attitudeThe problem of evilThe story of JobThe journey towards the SelfHinduismBuddhismChanges in Christian thinking10 Jung the visionaryTravelsJung and psychotherapyKey aspects of Jungian analysisCriticisms of JungInto the futureGlossaryTaking it furtherTimeline of important events in Jung’s lifePlaces to visitA list of Jung’s most important worksFurther readingUseful websitesIndex

Meet the authorWelcome to Jung – The Key Ideas!I first became interested in Jung while I was still at school and read his autobiography, ‘Memories, Dreams,Reflections’, which is an excellent introduction to his work. I was very interested in dreams and so I dipped into more ofJung’s work and also the writing of Sigmund Freud, who was Jung’s mentor early on in his career. Later on, as I studied formy BSc degree in Psychology at the University of Birmingham, I was disappointed to find that their work was only touchedupon briefly in the curriculum, and so my reading was confined to obscure forgotten book stacks in the huge university library.After university, my career took me into teaching for the next few years, so I forgot all about Jung and Freud for a while. Butmeanwhile I gained plenty of experience in putting ideas into straightforward words that most people could understand – avery useful foundation for my later career as a writer.After having a career break while my children were small, I set up a complementary therapy practice offeringpersonal development among other things. One approach that I used for this was dream-work and in 1998 my first bookWorking with Dreams was published by How to Books, under the name of Ruth Berry. My research for this project broughtme back into the realms of Freud and Jung and, in 2000, I was commissioned by Hodder to write Freud, a Beginner’s Guideand Jung, a Beginner’s Guide. These were later followed by Teach Yourself Freud and Teach Yourself Jung.Since 2008 I have worked full time as a writer, focusing on spiritual and psychological matters, poetry and children’sfiction. I have a particular interest in the ancient links between the natural world, human culture and the psyche. Freud, andparticularly Jung, both explored aspects of this area, with studies of ancient history, myth, dreams, synchronicities, theparanormal and world religions.Jung has been one of my greatest teachers, and while I was writing this book I often felt his wise presence, explainingobscure ideas and guiding my thinking. Even now, when I am mulling over a problem, I sometimes catch a whiff of hispipe-tobacco. I find that his extensive work is fascinating to read, particularly because he was not afraid to explore ideas thatwere not mainstream. Jung has gradually acquired a huge following and many therapists today are trained in the Jungianmethod. Far beyond the therapy field, his work also contains many important insights into the lives of humankind that are onlyjust beginning to be more widely understood. He was one of the first great thinkers to try to bridge gaps between the thinkingof East and West; Christian and pagan. He demonstrated ways in which Western culture, so bound up in science and logic, wasoften sadly deficient in the spiritual awareness and subjective insight shown in other cultures and at other times in history.Ruth Snowden, 2010

1: Only got a minute?Carl Jung was a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist. He is famous because he founded a system of psychology

1 Jung’s life and career Carl Jung (1875–1961) is famous because he founded a system of psychology called analytical psychology. He saw the spiritual aspects of his work as being vitally important, insisting that t