Blake, Jung & the Collective Unconscious: The Conflict Between Reason & Imagination

by June K. Singer, Esther Harding (Introduction)

In this thoughtful discussion of Blake's well-known Marriage of Heaven and Hell , Singer shows us that Blake was actually tapping into the collective unconscious and giving form and voice to primordial psychological energies, or archetypes, that he experienced in his inner and outer world. With clarity and wisdom, Singer examines the images and words in each plate of Blake's work, applying in her analysis the concepts that Jung brought forth in his psychological theories.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Poetry, Philosophy

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

Reviews

[Xuan Bao]

Beautiful

Thoroughly researched and beautifully written. This book, applying Jungian analytical frameworks, captures Blake’s life course as well as his creative work. I constantly wonder whether society today could produce and/or tolerant a prophet like Blake or Jung. Even with so much truth and warmth they offer, would they even be heard or understood by their people in meaningful topics like dualism, men’s divinity within, and the sense of becoming and individuation. I wonder.

[Sam]

Not much here about a collective unconscious. Mostly just psychoanalytic assumptions Blake's intent as a writer.