Name: Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 18
ISBN: 9781400851010

C. G. Jung

This volume is a miscellany of writings that Jung published after the Collected Works had been planned, minor and fugitive works that he wished to assign to a special volume, and early writings that came to light in the course of research.

The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 18

Aion, originally published in German in 1951, is one of the major works of Jung's later years. The central theme of the volume is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the Self, whose traditional historical equivalent is the figure of Christ. Jung demonstrates his thesis by an investigation of the Allegoria Christi, especially the fish symbol, but also of Gnostic and alchemical symbolism, which he treats as phenomena of cultural assimilation. The first four chapters, on the ego, the shadow, and the anima and animus, provide a valuable summation of these key concepts in Jung's system of psychology.

Aion Researches Into the Phenomenology of the Self

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 2)

Yeng Tan

If life is a circle, then Jung observes the recurring themes and motifs that reinforces the loop that is existence. The particular lens employed by Jung is psychological, but it reads very much more like a holistic insight into reality and 'how one may decide to view it as deeply and austere as one decides to'

I can't recommend this to everyone - it's like digging through dirt to find gold, but you're on LSD and you can't differentiate a stone from a pearl. But the nature of Jung's work is personal; and this particular work proved revelatory to me when I was going through a very difficult period of my life.

One of the most important of Jung's longer works, and probably the most famous of his books, Psychological Types appeared in German in 1921 after a "fallow period" of eight years during which Jung had published little. He called it "the fruit of nearly twenty years' work in the domain of practical psychology," and in his autobiography he wrote: "This work sprang originally from my need to define the ways in which my outlook differed from Freud's and Adler's. In attempting to answer this question, I came across the problem of types; for it is one's psychological type which from the outset determines and limits a person's judgment. My book, therefore, was an effort to deal with the relationship of the individual to the world, to people and things. It discussed the various aspects of consciousness, the various attitudes the conscious mind might take toward the world, and thus constitutes a psychology of consciousness regarded from what might be called a clinical angle." In expounding his system of personality types Jung relied not so much on formal case data as on the countless impressions and experiences derived from the treatment of nervous illnesses, from intercourse with people of all social levels, "friend and foe alike," and from an analysis of his own psychological nature. The book is rich in material drawn from literature, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy. The extended chapters that give general descriptions of the types and definitions of Jung's principal psychological concepts are key documents in analytical psychology.

Psychological Types

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 6

Safiya 

De manière globale, Jung suit une méthode comparatiste synthétique des différents épisodes historiques marquantes, littéraires, religieuses, qui mettent en relief, particulièrement les deux grands types psychologiques : Introversion et Extraversion (selon Jung, un type psychologique est une attitude habituelle dans laquelle domine continuellement l'un des mécanismes précités). Plusieurs comparaisons ont servi à l'auteur de mettre une base pour définir précisément les traits de chaque type : Tertullien et Origène, Nietzsche, Apollon et Dionysos, Schopenhauer, Goethe, Prométhée et Epiméthée,...
L'introversion est le mouvement du libido vers le dedans du sujet, un processus introspectif, la libido définie en tant que valeur énergétique et une valeur psychologique. L'extraversion, au contraire, est l'orientation de la libido vers le dehors du sujet, accompagné d'une forme d'intropathie, "Einfühlung", projection de ses propres sentiments dans un autre être vivant ou non, auquel il s'identifie. On pourrait assimilé ces deux types à la diastole et la systole du cœur.
La forme vivante de Schiller, et l'image primordiale de Schopenhauer est reprise par Jung en terme de symbole : notion différente de l'appréhension sémiologique conventionnelle de signes, mais une représentation originale qui possède un double caractère réalité et d'irréalité. En d'autres termes, seul ce qui enferme à la fois la chose et son opposé peut être symbolique (Dans l'unité, la dualité).
Toutefois, Jung ne se limite pas à considérer le type psychologique à travers cette seule dichotomie, mais y rajoutes une synthèse basée sur l'étude minutieuse d'articles et contributions d'autres psychanalystes, notamment : Pensée, Sentiment, Sensation, et Intuition. En considérant la fonction compensatrice de l'inconscient, le type psychologique régnant dans l'attitude consciente dissimule l'attitude opposée dans l'inconscient.

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 18 The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings

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