Arquetipos e inconsciente colectivo

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Paidós, 1994 - 182 páginas
Jung presenta en este libro su tema central y ms discutido: el problema de lo inconsciente colectivo y los principios y patrones de su actividad. Tambin contiene un ensayo terico que ocupa en la evolucin de sus concepciones un lugar similar al Esquema del psicoanlisis en la exposicin de la doctrina de Freud: Consideraciones tericas sobre la naturaleza de lo psquico, un intento de sintetizar las mltiples facetas del pensamiento de Jung tomando como base la ltima y ms atrevida de sus hiptesis, la de la naturaleza psicoidea del arquetipo. Las ideas que desarrolla Jung en esta obra son enormemente complejas y muchas de ellas difcilmente podran ser hoy susceptibles de la rigurosa verificacin emprica que legtimamente exige la ciencia. Pero para poder evaluarlas con justicia debe tenerse presente que los descubrimientos de la psicologa analtica de Jung, al igual que los de psicologa profunda en general, afrontan dificultades de demostracin y comunicacin que no suelen presentarse en otros campos del conocimiento.

Sobre el autor (1994)

Carl Jung was born in Switzerland on July 26, 1875. He originally set out to study archaeology, but switched to medicine and began practicing psychiatry in Basel after receiving his degree from the University of Basel in 1902. He became one of the most famous of modern psychologists and psychiatrists. Jung first met Sigmund Freud in 1907 when he became his foremost associate and disciple. The break came with the publication of Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious (1912), which did not follow Freud's theories of the libido and the unconscious. Jung eventually rejected Freud's system of psychoanalysis for his own "analytic psychology." This emphasizes present conflicts rather than those from childhood; it also takes into account the conflict arising from what Jung called the "collective unconscious"---evolutionary and cultural factors determining individual development. Jung invented the association word test and contributed the word complex to psychology, and first described the "introvert" and "extrovert" types. His interest in the human psyche, past and present, led him to study mythology, alchemy, oriental religions and philosophies, and traditional peoples. Later he became interested in parapsychology and the occult. He thought that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) might be a psychological projection of modern people's anxieties. He wrote several books including Studies in Word Association, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, and Psychology and Alchemy. He died on June 6, 1961 after a short illness.

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