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Jung on Mythology / C. G. Jung; ed. by Robert A. Segal.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Encountering Jung ; 2Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691214016
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 291.1/3 21
LOC classification:
  • BL304 .J86 1998
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Jung on Myth -- Chapter 1. Jung vis-a-vis Freud on Myth -- Chapter 2. The Origin of Myth -- Chapter 3. The Function of Myth -- Chapter 4. Myths and Dreams/ Fantasies -- Chapter 5. Myth as a Way of Thinking -- Chapter 6. Kinds of Myths -- Chapter 7. Myths and Primitives -- Chapter 8. Myths and Moderns -- Chapter 9. Earlier Psychological Interpretations of Myth -- Chapter 10. Myth and Religion -- Part 2. Developments in the Jungian Theory of Myth -- Chapter 11. Erich Neumann -- Chapter 12. Marie-Louise von Franz -- Chapter 13. James Hillman -- Index
Summary: At least three major questions can be asked of myth: what is its subject matter? what is its origin? and what is its function? Theories of myth may differ on the answers they give to any of these questions, but more basically they may also differ on which of the questions they ask. C. G. Jung's theory is one of the few that purports to answer fully all three questions. This volume collects and organizes the key passages on myth by Jung himself and by some of the most prominent Jungian writers after him: Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz, and James Hillman. The book synthesizes the discovery of myth as a way of thinking, where it becomes a therapeutic tool providing an entrance to the unconscious. In the first selections, Jung begins to differentiate his theory from Freud's by asserting that there are fantasies and dreams of an "impersonal" nature that cannot be reduced to experiences in a person's past. Jung then asserts that the similarities among myths are the result of the projection of the collective rather than the personal unconscious onto the external world. Finally, he comes to the conclusion that myth originates and functions to satisfy the psychological need for contact with the unconscious--not merely to announce the existence of the unconscious, but to let us experience it.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Jung on Myth -- Chapter 1. Jung vis-a-vis Freud on Myth -- Chapter 2. The Origin of Myth -- Chapter 3. The Function of Myth -- Chapter 4. Myths and Dreams/ Fantasies -- Chapter 5. Myth as a Way of Thinking -- Chapter 6. Kinds of Myths -- Chapter 7. Myths and Primitives -- Chapter 8. Myths and Moderns -- Chapter 9. Earlier Psychological Interpretations of Myth -- Chapter 10. Myth and Religion -- Part 2. Developments in the Jungian Theory of Myth -- Chapter 11. Erich Neumann -- Chapter 12. Marie-Louise von Franz -- Chapter 13. James Hillman -- Index

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At least three major questions can be asked of myth: what is its subject matter? what is its origin? and what is its function? Theories of myth may differ on the answers they give to any of these questions, but more basically they may also differ on which of the questions they ask. C. G. Jung's theory is one of the few that purports to answer fully all three questions. This volume collects and organizes the key passages on myth by Jung himself and by some of the most prominent Jungian writers after him: Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz, and James Hillman. The book synthesizes the discovery of myth as a way of thinking, where it becomes a therapeutic tool providing an entrance to the unconscious. In the first selections, Jung begins to differentiate his theory from Freud's by asserting that there are fantasies and dreams of an "impersonal" nature that cannot be reduced to experiences in a person's past. Jung then asserts that the similarities among myths are the result of the projection of the collective rather than the personal unconscious onto the external world. Finally, he comes to the conclusion that myth originates and functions to satisfy the psychological need for contact with the unconscious--not merely to announce the existence of the unconscious, but to let us experience it.

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