Critique of psychoanalysis (1956)
Critique of psychoanalysis is a 1956 psychoanalysis book written by Carl Gustav Jung.
A gathering of Carl Jung's writings on the borderland between psychology and the occult, drawn from across his Collected Works. The pieces run from his early clinical study 'On the Psychology and Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena' to later reflections in 'The Soul and Death' and 'Psychology and Spiritualism,' plus short forewords on apparitions and precognition. Jung treats seances, spirit belief, and premonition less as frauds to expose than as material thrown up by the psyche, tracing how the mind produces figures it experiences as visitors from elsewhere. A slim volume for readers following his lifelong interest in the irrational.
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Best approached by readers already inside Carl Gustav Jung's project, as a companion to his central work on the unconscious rather than a starting point. Man and His Symbols makes a gentler first door into his thinking, and the memoir Memories, Dreams, Reflections shows where this occult material sat in Jung's own life.
