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After decades of myth making, C.G. Jung remains one of the most misunderstood figures in Western intellectual history. This comprehensive study of the origins of his psychology provides a new perspective on the rise of modern psychology and psychotherapy. It reconstructs the reception of Jung's work in the human sciences, and its impact on the social and intellectual history of the twentieth century. The book creates a basis for any future discussion of Jung by opening new vistas in psychology.
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This page intentionally left blank Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology Occultist, Scientist, Prophet, Charlatan – C. G. Jung has been called all these things and after decades of myth making is one of the most misunderstood figures in Western intellectual history. This book is the first comprehensive study of the formation of his psychology, as well as providing a new account of the rise of modern psychology and psychotherapy. Based on a wealth of hitherto unknown archival materials it reconstructs the reception of Jung’s work in the human sciences, and its impact on the social and intellectual history of the twentieth century. This book creates a basis for all future discussion of Jung, and opens new vistas on psychology today. is a historian of psychology and a Research Associate of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. His most recent book Cult Fictions: C. G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology won the Gradiva Prize for the best historical and biographical work from the World Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology The Dream of a Science Sonu Shamdasani Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521831451 © Sonu Shamdasani 2003 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2003 - - - - - - eBook (EBL) - - - eBook (EBL) - - - - - - hardback - - - hardback - - - - - - paperback - - - paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. For Maggie Contents Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Note on translations Prologue: “The most cursed dilettante” page xii xiv xvi 1 1 The individual and the universal 29 2 Night and day 100 3 Body and soul 163 4 The ancient in the modern 271 References Index 353 378 vii Full contents Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Note on translations Prologue: “The most cursed dilettante” The advent of the new psychology Jung without Freud Complex psychology The new encyclopedia The incomplete works of Jung Historical cubism 1 The individual and the universal The personal equation: from astronomy to psychology The two popes: James and Wundt Human, cultural and historical sciences? Individual psychology Differential psychology Becoming a psychiatrist Differences in associations Cr