Carl Gustav Jung; A Biography
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312194455 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 640 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The first full-length biography of the famous psychologist examines Carl Jung's early career as an admirer of Freud, the bitter argument that made the men rivals, and the development of his highly influential theories. 15,000 first printing."
Complex, controversial, and profoundly influential, Jung presents the biographer with Herculean tasks, and McLynn's performance is heroic. As McLynn chronicles each stage of Jung's life--from his unhappy school years to his calculated marriage, close collaboration and exceedingly traumatic break with Freud, and the writing of his seminal works--he strikes a balance between deep respect for Jung's brilliant interpretations of the human experience and frank acknowledgement of his lack of compassion, a failing that made him a womanizer, an
A well written but negative assessment of Jung Martin Fiebert This book is clearly well researched and quite well written. Overall, however I found that McLynn appears to side with Freud in the personal (and theoretical) struggles between the two giants of Psychology and Personality theory. With regard to personal issues he clearly accepts the fact that Jung had an affair with Sabina Speilrein but dismisses the idea that Freud was intimately involved with Minna Bernays. Even more significantly he plays down the fact that Jung made a major effort to send money to Freud to help him and his family escape from t. "An indispensable sour companion" according to G. B. Talovich. Anybody interested in Jung should read this book, but read it with a grain of salt. The author is no great admirer of Jung; was this a result of learning so much about him while writing his biography? I do not know, but I am grateful to McLynn for writing a book that has taught me so much about a man who has taught me so much.That said, let me state that this book can by no means substitute for reading Jung. The brilliance, fire, and life of his writing is almost entirely absent from this book: a great loss.Also absent are photographs. I would lik. A sophisticated hatchet-job A Customer Ok, so the Jungians have done themselves no favors by publishing biographies of Jung that are one-sidedly laudatory. However, the solution is not, in my opinion, to compose counter-biographies that are one-sidedly negative.After being disappointed with Noll's sensationalist books on Jung, I was hoping that McLynn's biography would be more even-handed. It had, after all, drawn very favorable reviews.On one hand, thanks to McLynn's efforts, I learned a lot more about Jung than I knew before. However,McLynn's overwhelmingly negative, even petty, eval