The Portable Jung (Viking Portable Library)

Carl Gustav Jung was, together with Freud and Adler, one of the three great pioneers in modern psychiatry. He was born in 1865 in Switzerland, where he studied medicine and psychiatry and later became one of Sigmund Freud’s early supporters and collaborators. Eventually, serious theoretical disagreements (among them Jung’s view of the religious instinct in man) led to a doctrinal and personal break between the two famed psychiatrists. Dr. Jung was the author of many books, and he lived and practiced for many years in his native Zurich. He died in 1961.

Joseph Campbell was interested in mythology since his childhood in New York, when he read books about American Indians, frequently visited the American Museum of Natural History, and was fascinated by the museum's collection of totem poles. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Columbia in 1925 and 1927 and went on to study medieval French and Sanskrit at the universities of Paris and Munich. After a period in California, where he encountered John Steinbeck and the biologist Ed Ricketts, he taught at the Canterbury School, then, in 1934, joined the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he retained for many years. During the 1940s and '50s, he helped Swami Nikhilananda to translate the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. The many books by Professor Campbell include The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Myths to Live By, The Flight of the Wild Gander, and The Mythic Image. He edited The Portable Arabian Nights, The Portable Jung, and other works. He died in 1987.

Chronology

Part I

1. The Stages of Life

2. The Structure of the Psyche

3. Instinct and the Unconscious

4. The Concept of the Collective Unconscious

5. The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious

6. Aion: Phenomenology of the Self (The Ego, the Shadow, the Syzygy: Anima/Animus)

7. Marriage as a Psychological Relationship

8. Psychological Types

Part II

9. The Transcendent Function

10. On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry

11. Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy

12. The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man

13. The Difference Between Eastern and Western Thinking

Part III

14. On Synchronicity

15. Answer to Job

Appendix