Goethe's Faust (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts) by Edward F. Edinger

Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts #43

by Edward F. Edinger

Faust was Jung's life-long companion. Here the dean of American analysts shows that Faust is at once a psychological portrait of the modern psyche, a symbolic description of a depth analysis and a guide to understanding alchemy.

Genres: Psychology

Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1990

About the author

Edward F. Edinger was a medical psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and American writer.
Edward F. Edinger Jr. was born on December 13, 1922, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, earning his Bachelor of Arts in chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington and his Doctor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine in 1946. In November 1947, as a first lieutenant, he started a four-week Medical Field Service School at the Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He became a military doctor in the United States Army Medical Corps and was in Panama. In New York in 1951, he began his analysis with Mary Esther Harding, who had been associated with C.G. Jung.
Edinger was a psychiatrist supervisor at Rockland State Hospital in Orangeburg, New York, and later founder member of the C.G. Jung Foundation in Manhattan and the CG Jung Institute in New York. He was president of the institute from 1968 until 1979, when he moved to Los Angeles. There he continued his practice for 19 years, becoming senior analyst at the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles.
He died on July 17, 1998, at his home in Los Angeles at age 75, according to family members due to bladder cancer.

Reviews

[Matthew · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading Edinger's observations and relevant passages from Jung's work, but wished this book for more fleshed out. The author points out psychological, religious, and alchemical references but does not elaborate on them enough.

[Patrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a great exposition. I am also reminded of the superiority of Marlowe’s Faust in comparison to Goethe.

[Elmer Quiros Alvarez · Rating 3 out of 5]

A psychological analysis of Goethe's work, going into aspects of Gnosis, a boring book