General Index

Jung's Collected Works #20

by C.G. Jung, R.F.C. Hull (Translator)

This volume is the general index to the eighteen published textual volumes in the Collected Works of C.G. Jung . The comprehensive indexing goes beyond the volume indexes, and includes sub-indexes to important general topics, such as Alchemical Collections, Codices and Manuscripts, Feud and Numbers, the sub-indexing for the Bible arranged by book, chapter and verse. The General Index , with the General Bibliography of C.G. Jung's Writings (Volume 19 of the Collected Works ), together complete the publication of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung in English.

Genres: Psychology, Reference

752 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death.

The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.

Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.

Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the "psychologization of religion", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.

Reviews

[Erik Graff]

For my graduate thesis on Kant's influence on Jung I read everything then available that had been written by Jung or transcribed from his speaking, not all of which was then in The Collected Works. The index was a check on such work in that it caught some oversights, but my own listing was more thorough.

Sadly, idiot that I was, I recorded text by page numbers while the Collected Works also provide paragraph numbers. The reason for this editorial choice is that some texts have undergone revision as new editions have come out with more information at hand. Jung, like many authors, often reworked his pieces and different editions published in his lifetime can be substantially variant.