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Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process

Notes of C. G. Jung's Seminars on Wolfgang Pauli's Dreams
  • C. G. Jung
  • Edited by: Suzanne Gieser and Suzanne Gieser
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019
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Jung’s legendary American lectures on dream interpretation

In 1936 and 1937, C. G. Jung delivered two legendary seminars on dream interpretation, the first on Bailey Island, Maine, the second in New York City. Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process makes these lectures widely available for the first time, offering a compelling look at Jung as he presents his ideas candidly and in English before a rapt American audience.

The dreams presented here are those of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who turned to Jung for therapeutic help because of troubling personal events, emotional turmoil, and depression. Linking Pauli’s dreams to the healing wisdom found in many ages and cultures, Jung shows how the mandala—a universal archetype of wholeness—spontaneously emerges in the psyche of a modern man, and how this imagery reflects the healing process. He touches on a broad range of themes, including psychological types, mental illness, the individuation process, the principles of psychotherapeutic treatment, and the importance of the anima, shadow, and persona in masculine psychology. He also reflects on modern physics, the nature of reality, and the political currents of his time. Jung draws on examples from the Mithraic mysteries, Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese philosophy, Kundalini yoga, and ancient Egyptian concepts of body and soul. He also discusses the symbolism of the Catholic Mass, the Trinity, and Gnostic ideas in the noncanonical Gospels.

With an incisive introduction and annotations, Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process provides a rare window into Jung’s interpretation of dreams and the development of his psychology of religion.

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Suzanne Gieser has a PhD in the history of science and is a licensed psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. She is the author of The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics: Wolfgang Pauli’s Dialogue with C. G. Jung. She lives in Stockholm.

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"Immensely stimulating and full of unexpected turns of thought, vivid illustrations, and intriguing arcane knowledge. This meticulously edited book will be a lasting resource for anyone studying Jung academically, as part of therapeutic training, or for general interest."—Roderick Main, University of Essex

"An important contribution to the scholarship on Jung. These lectures are fascinating and revealing."—Robert S. Westman, University of California, San Diego

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

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    Introduction

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  • Bailey Island Seminar, 1936
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    Prefatory Note to the Mimeographed Notes of the Bailey Island Seminar

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    Lecture 1

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    Lecture 2

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    Lecture 3

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    Lecture 4

    140
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    Lecture 5

    170
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    Lecture 6

    194
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  • New York Seminar, 1937
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    Lecture 7

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    Lecture 8

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    Lecture 9

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    Lecture 10

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    Lecture 11

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    Index

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December 16, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780691191942
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691191942
eBook ISBN: 9780691191942
Keywords for this book
Consciousness; Thought; Psychology; Individuation; Lecture; Carl Jung; Deity; Philosophy; Pauli; Feeling; Neurosis; Circumambulation; Anthropomorphism; Unconsciousness; Analytical psychology; Eranos; Libido; Philosopher; Scientist; Buddhism; Instance (computer science); Christianity; Explanation; Unconscious mind; Dionysus; Illustration; Multitude; Psychotherapy; Phenomenon; Symptom; A Matter of Fact; Archetype; Literature; Suggestion; Publication; Symbol; Psychology and Alchemy; Subconscious; Clockwise; Scholasticism; Allusion; Gnosticism; Religion; Mental disorder; Sanskrit; Self-control; Psychoanalysis; Anima mundi; Prima materia; Good and evil; Rosicrucianism; Analogy; Schizophrenia; Laughter; Greek mythology; Psychological Types; Goethe's Faust; Hinduism; Hypothesis; Chairman; Personal life; Ophites; Robert Fludd; Unigenitus; Kundalini; Mithraism; Dream interpretation; Princeton University Press; Psychology of the Unconscious; Demiurge
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