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| Author | Carl Jung |
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| Translator | Cary F. Baynes with William Stanley Dell |
| Language | German, English |
| Subject | Psychology |
| Published | 1933Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co, London (English) |
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| Pages | 282 (1st edition) |
| ISBN | 0-15-661206-2 (Mariner Books edition) |
Modern Man in Search of a Soul is a book of psychological essays written by Swiss psychologistCarl Jung.
In the years preceding this publication, Jung had experienced several dramatic shifts. After the Bugishu Psychological Expedition through East Africa withGeorge Beckwith,Helton Godwin Baynes, and Ruth Bailey, Jung returned toZürich and focused on the lecture format of his English seminars at the Psychological Club - eventually attracting a new group of international followers.[1] In addition to expanding his academic following, Jung's psychiatric practice also rapidly grew taking on notable patients likeMary Foote andThornton Wilder. During this period in Zürich, Jung struck up a friendship withWolfgang Ernst Pauli.
In the translators' prefaceCary F. Baynes provides some background to the material:
With one exception, all the essays which make up this volume have been delivered as lectures. The German texts of four of them have been brought out in separate publications and the others are to be found in a volume [Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart] together with several other essays which have already appeared in English.[2]
Jung's various presentations to the Psychological Club in Zürich in this period, notably his 1932 seminar onKundalini yoga, have been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding ofEastern thought. Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model for the development of higher consciousness, and he interpreted its symbols in terms of the process ofindividuation.[3]
The writing covers a broad array of subjects such asgnosticism,theosophy,Eastern philosophy, andspirituality in general. The first part of the book deals withdream analysis in its practical application, the problems and aims of modernpsychotherapy, and also his own theory ofpsychological types. The middle section addresses Jung's beliefs about the stages of life andarchaic man. He also contrasts his owntheories with those ofSigmund Freud.
In the latter parts of the book, Jung discussespsychology and literature and devotes a chapter to basic postulates ofanalytical psychology. The last two chapters are devoted to the spiritual problem of modern man inaftermath of World War I. He compares it to the flowering ofgnosticism in the 2nd century C.E. and investigates howpsychotherapists are likeclergy.
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