Jung Stripped Bare: By His Biographers, Even

by Sonu Shamdasani

Overview

How many "posthumous" lives does a man have to live? Nearly half a century after his death, C. G. Jung is a subject of continual controversies. Every few years, a new life of Jung appears, each promising to provide the missing master key to the mysteries of his life and work, and to lay bare their secrets. However, with every successive "life",

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367325237
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/27/2019
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology, and a research associate at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. He is the author of 'Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science' and 'Cult Fictions: C. G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology', which won the Gradiva Prize of the World Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in 1999 for the best historical and biographical work. He has also edited several books.

Table of Contents

Introduction: biography, fiction, history — "How to catch the bird": Jung and his first biographers — The incomplete works of Jung — Other lives — A new Life of Jung — Conclusion: life after biography?