First published in German in 1912 and translated into English in 1916, Psychology of the Unconscious is one of Carl Jung's most important works. Jung was a promising young Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst when he caught the attention of Sigmund Freud. The two began a lengthy correspondence and Freud viewed Jung as the heir to his theory of the future of psychoanalysis. Jung's views began to diverge from his mentor's however and the publication of Psychology of the Unconscious was the formal end of their collaboration and friendship. Jung's work delved deeply into the fantasies and mental visions of a patient that he believed had early signs of schizophrenia and concluded that these detailed historical fantasies revealed hidden sexual and psychic energies that took on symbolic forms in the patient's conscious mind. Jung's analysis laid the foundation for many of the theories that he would later become so famous for, such as the collective unconscious and archetypes. Psychology of the Unconscious remains an important contribution to the development of analytical psychoanalysis as a beneficial and effective therapy. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and follows the translation of Beatrice M. Hinkle.

In 1900, Helene Preiswerk fell madly in love with her cousin, a handsome med student named Carl Gustav Jung. She is slenderly built, face rather pale, eyes dark with a peculiar penetrating look, he wrote of her. She has no serious illnesses. At school she passed for average, showed little interest, was inattentive. As a rule her behavior was rather reserved, sometimes giving place, however, to exuberant joy and exaltation. Of average intelligence, without special gifts, neither musical nor fond of books, her preference is for handwork-and day dreaming.

But Jung's relationship with Helene was changed forever on a dark August night, when the young doctor humored her by attending a seance she was holding, only to be stunned when she became very pale, slowly sank to the ground, shut her eyes, became cataleptic, drew several deep breaths, and began to speak. From her mouth emerged the voices of the dead and the star-dwellers, weaving fantastic tales of secret and open love-affairs, with illegitimate births and other sexual insinuations.

So began a torrid drama of hauntings, gnostic arcana, witch-sleeps, and delicious bliss that unraveled into obsession and tragic ruin. From these ashes Jung fashioned his M.D. dissertation, On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena, a faithful recounting of his niece's decent into mania and her increasingly desperate attempts to keep his attention with ever grander seances. This oft overlooked treatise launched the 25-year-old doctor's career as the world's most celebrated Archetypal Psychologist-but lurking between its lines of objective analysis is evidence of a libidinous game being played between two lonely people, fascinated with the mirror self they discover in the other.

Jung no fue el primero en dedicarse al estudio de la actividad on rica. No obstante, sus contribuciones al an lisis de los sue os fueron extensivas y altamente influyentes. Escribi una prol fica obra. Aunque durante la mayor parte de su vida centr su trabajo en la formulaci n de teor as psicol gicas y en la pr ctica cl nica, tambi n incursion en otros campos de las humanidades, desde el estudio comparativo de las religiones, la filosof a y la sociolog a hasta la cr tica del arte y la literatura.

Psychological Types is one of Jung's most important and famous works. First published in English by Routledge in the early 1920s it appeared after Jung's so-called fallow period, during which he published little, and it is perhaps the first significant book to appear after his own confrontation with the unconscious. It is the book that introduced the world to the terms 'extravert' and 'introvert'. Though very much associated with the unconscious, in Psychological Types Jung shows himself to be a supreme theorist of the conscious. In putting forward his system of psychological types Jung provides a means for understanding ourselves and the world around us: our different patterns of behaviour, our relationships, marriage, national and international conflict, organizational functioning.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by John Beebe.

Als der schwedische Botaniker Carl Peter Thunberg 1779 nach neunjahriger Abwesenheit wieder in sein Heimatland zuruckkehrte, liess er die in Sudafrika und Japan gesammelten Erfahrungen in einen umfassenden Reisebericht einfliessen. Diese Reiseschilderung stiess im 18. Jahrhundert in ganz Europa auf sehr grosses Interesse, da es zu dieser Zeit an aktuellen Augenzeugenberichten uber das fast ganzlich abgeschlossene Japan mangelte. Aus heutiger Sicht ist Thunbergs Werk nicht nur wegen der Beschreibung Japans, sondern gerade auch wegen der Darstellung der niederlandischen Kolonie am Kap der Guten Hoffnung ausserordentlich wertvoll. Wahrend man die autochthonen Bewohner Sudafrikas in Europa damalsfur ausserst wild hielt, standen die Japaner im Ruf, ein in weiten Teilen zivilisiertes Volk zu sein. Die faszinierende Analyse von Thunbergs entsprechenden Beschreibungen beleuchtet das damalige europaische Selbstverstandnis auf eindruckliche Weise.