From “Confrontation with the Unconscious” Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962)
From “The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious” Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928)
From “The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales” (1945/8)
Part 5 Psychological Types and the Self-regulating Psyche
“Introduction” Psychological Types (1921)
“Psychological Typology” (1936)
From “On the Psychology of the Unconscious” Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1917/26/43)
“The Practical Use of Dream-analysis” (1934)
Part 6 The Development of the Individual
“The Development of Personality” (1934)
From “The Aims of Psychotherapy” (1931)
“Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation” (1939)
From “Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower” (1929)
Part 7 Integration, Wholeness, and the Self
From “Confrontation with the Unconscious” Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962)
From Psychology and Religion (1938/40)
From Psychology and Religion (1938/40)
From “The Work” Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962)
“Introduction to the Religious and Psychological Problems of Alchemy” Psychology and Alchemy (1944)
From “The Conjunction” Mysterium Coniunctionis (1955/6)
Part 8 Self and Opposites: God and the Problem of Evil
From “Christ, a Symbol of the Self” Aion (1951)
Part 9 “Unus Mundus and Synchronicity
From “Flying Saucers: a Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies” (1958)
From “The Conjunction” Mysterium Coniunctionis (1955/6)
From “On the Nature of the Psyche” (1947/54)
From “Synchronicity: an Acausal Connecting Principle” (1952)
From “Flying Saucers: a Modern Myth of Things Seen in Skies” (1958)
From letter to Father Victor White (10 April 1954)
“The Undiscovered Self (Present and Future)” (1957)
Chronology of Jung’s Life and Work
Bibliographical details of the works from which I have taken extracts – Collected Works (CW), Memories, Dreams, Reflections (MDR), Septem Sermones ad Mortuos, The Freud/Jung Letters and Letters – are given on pages 434–5. English and American page or paragraph numbering diverges only in the case of MDR; when quoting from this book I have given the English hardback edition’s pages followed by those of the American edition.
I have been selective about my inclusion of footnotes, keeping those of Jung’s which illuminate the text or which refer to sources of interest to the non-specialist reader, but omitting his and his editors’ references to works which, particularly in the case of the alchemical volumes, are unobtainable by all but the most dedicated scholars. Where editors’ notes have been retained, they are within square brackets. I have used the bibliographies contained in CW to fill out Jung’s footnotes where appropriate.
Throughout his long life, C. G. Jung was a prolific writer, so that his Collected Works run to no less than eighteen large volumes. In addition, there are two volumes of his letters, a separate volume of his correspondence with Freud, and his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Comparatively few people are prepared to read the whole corpus of this material; but many might welcome the opportunity to become acquainted with Jung’s thought as he himself expounded it. This book is an attempt to distil the essential features of Jung’s psychology as it developed during the course of his life by means of extracts from his own writings. Since Jung’s