Annotation This is a complete reworking of his theories on the nature of the unconscious and the power and development of archetypes.Description from The Reader's CatalogJung's groundbreaking early work on symbolism and mythFrom The PublisherIn 1912, at the age of thirty-seven, Jung published the original version of his work, Transformation and Symbols of the Libido, which marked his divulgence from the psychoanalytic school of Freud. It soon became his most widely known and influential work, and it is important in the background of The Freud/Jung Letters. Because it represented a transitional state in the developement of his theory, Jung long wished to revise it, and in 1952 he published a completely rewritten edition, on which this transformation is based. In its author's words, it is an "extended commmentary on a practical analysis of the prodromal stages of schizophrenia.
Description from The Reader's CatalogJung's groundbreaking early work on symbolism and mythFrom The PublisherIn 1912, at the age of thirty-seven, Jung published the original version of his work, Transformation and Symbols of the Libido, which marked his divulgence from the psychoanalytic school of Freud. It soon became his most widely known and influential work, and it is important in the background of The Freud/Jung Letters. Because it represented a transitional state in the developement of his theory, Jung long wished to revise it, and in 1952 he published a completely rewritten edition, on which this transformation is based. In its author's words, it is an "extended commmentary on a practical analysis of the prodromal stages of schizophrenia.
From The PublisherIn 1912, at the age of thirty-seven, Jung published the original version of his work, Transformation and Symbols of the Libido, which marked his divulgence from the psychoanalytic school of Freud. It soon became his most widely known and influential work, and it is important in the background of The Freud/Jung Letters. Because it represented a transitional state in the developement of his theory, Jung long wished to revise it, and in 1952 he published a completely rewritten edition, on which this transformation is based. In its author's words, it is an "extended commmentary on a practical analysis of the prodromal stages of schizophrenia.