Spirituality and religion society of analytical psychology. The contents are as follows, with original dates given in brackets. Jung invented the association word test and contributed the word complex to psychology, and first described the introvert and extrovert types. Introduction in the following pages i shall attempt a general description of the types, and my first concern must be with the two general types i have termed introverted and extraverted. In his view, obscure and often neglected texts of writers in the past shed unexpected light not only on jungs own dreams and fantasies but also on those of his patients. Fraser watts, university of cambridge should psychology try to explain religion or try to understand it.
Christian christ is important i his own right and jung fails to explain this extra dimension of region. Unlike sigmund freud and his followers, jungians tend to treat religious beliefs and behaviors in a positive light, while offering psychological referents to traditional religious. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Jungs unus mundus by applying his writings on the metaphysical, the paranormal, and the quantum to literature. Jung producers note about internet archive daisy books this book was produced in daisy format by the internet archive. Pdf jung s map of the soul download full pdf book download. Carl gustav jung, author of some of the most provocative hypotheses in modern psychology, describes what he regards as an authentic religious function in. Jung also makes the distinction between immediate religious experience and religious creed which is a distillation of religious experience. West and east a library password is required to access fulltext content.
Jung was clear that his analytical psychology was not a new religion, neither was he a guru. Carl jung character of his psychotherapy britannica. Jung, a series of books published by princeton university press in the u. It is very clear and readable, and reflects michael argyles considerable reputation and experience. Jung, carl 1938 psychology and religion roberts, david e. Jung presents a sane and practical psychology, and is fair and sympathetic in his attitude toward religion.
Jul 18, 2011 jung was clear that his analytical psychology was not a new religion, neither was he a guru. However, during this period there were writings by what might be called the grand theorists of religion freud 1927, jung 1938. Psychology, religion, and spirituality is designed as a text that reflects this history while illuminating the robust dialogue that continues to accompany it. Psychology of religion a commentary on the classic texts. When the international psychoanalytical association formed in 1910 jung became president at the request of freud. Pdf carl gustav jung psychology and religionbook fi. Famed psychologist carl jung delivered a short series of lectures at yale in 1937 concerning the relationship between psychology and religion. Jung devoted the rest of his life to developing his ideas, especially those on the relation between psychology and religion. Dec 08, 2015 jung on religion and evil jung had much to say about the notion of evil. To a full understanding of jungs thesis on religion a thorough grasp of his theory of the. My first chapter will be a sort of introduction to the problem of practical psychology and religion.
In particular, the symbols of religion, particularly the christian symbols, were a major preoccupation throughout the life and work of jung, and is integral to his depth psychology where he was attempting to show the psychic roots of religion and the psychological relevance of christianity, with his epistemology diverse enough to. He was very critical of the churchs doctrine of the privato boni evil as the absence of good. Psychology and religion psychology and religion is an authoritative survey of what we know about the psychology of religion. It contains sixteen studies in religious phenomena, including psychology and religion and answer to job. A conception like the trinity pertains so much to the realm of theology that the only one of the profane sciences to pay any attention to it nowadays is history. The book pages were scanned and converted to daisy format automatically. Jung, psychological types or the psychology of individuation, translate by h. The 12 jungian archetypes psychology exploring your mind. What organized religion has always tried to do, with varying success, has been to provide satisfying forms for those deep human needs which now find such dangerous or banal expression, and to express the living process of the unconscious in the form of the drama of repentance, sacrifice and redemption. As to be expected after seeing how jung tried to cope with his fathers religious crisis, he warns us against trying to be better than we are. Pravin thevathasan mrcpsych is an expose of the errors of jungian psychology especially with regard to its interpretation of christianity.
Psychology is concerned with the act of seeing and not with the construction of new religious truths. Nov 18, 2018 this lecture will explore carl jung s unique approach to the psychology of religion, which will include a critical assessment of his controversial answer to job and his reservations regarding. Carl jung psychology and religion pdf 20 gram soul. This lecture will explore carl jungs unique approach to the psychology of religion, which will include a critical assessment of his controversial answer to job and his reservations regarding. Jung and the future of literary criticism explores the implications of c. If individuation is about the self archetype what has that got to do with god. Isbn 0791401669 robert aziz, synchronicity and the transformation of the ethical in jungian psychology in carl b. Jung s psychology of religion and synchronicity 1990, currently in its 10th printing, is a refereed publication of state university of new york press. His interest in the human psyche, past and present, led him to study mythology, alchemy, oriental religions and philosophies, and traditional peoples. He was an active member of the vienna psychoanalytic society formerly known as the wednesday psychological society.
Pdf carl gustav jung psychology and religionbook fi org. At the lower level of these writings, jung is misrepresented as having tried to found a personal pseudo religion richard noll, the jung cult, 1994. West and east calls for comment, since no single volume can cover jungs publications on a subject that takes so prominent a place in all his later works. For anyone interested in the interface between psychology and religion this is an essential book. West and east is volume 11 in the collected works of c. West and east calls for comment, since no single volume can cover jungs publications on a subject that. Carl gustav jung psychology and religionbook fi org.
Godwyn baynes 1923 chapter x general description of the types a. He draws on the history of human thought in both western and eastern traditions. Carl gustav jung, author of some of the most provocative hypotheses in modern psychology, describes what he regards as an authentic religious function in the unconscious mind. The religious implications of jungs psychology semantic scholar. The jungian interpretation of religion, pioneered by carl jung and advanced by his followers, is an attempt to interpret religion in the light of jungian psychology. In fact, it has been this feature which has much of the time established jungs psychology in bold contrast. Jung 18751961 was a swiss psychologist whose principles have been found to be applicable to nearly all academic disciplines from mythology to religion to. The past century has seen the relationship between psychology and religion progress from wary antagonists to strange bedfellows to complementary worldviews. Carl jung was an early supporter of freud because of their shared interest in the unconscious. From the reactions the lecture provoked, it was plain that some of my readers found a psychological discussion of christian. Everything to do with religion, everything it is and asserts, touches the human soul so closely that psychology least of all can afford to overlook it. The second is concerned with page 3 facts which bear out the. Nevertheless, jung saw that for some people the structure of a church was an adequate psychic container, and he was content to end a therapy if the patient returned to, or joined, a religious community c. Clark, 2012, understanding religion and spirituality in.
If it were updated, it would now include several times that number. Jung said atheism is a religion but is he just twisting words to make his theory unfalsifiable. Psychology and religion association of jungian analysts. Note that rather than being put into a huff by the title, these authors sympathetic. Originally a friend and younger contemporary of freud, jung eventually went his own way, unable to agree with freuds sexual emphasis. Sticking strictly to his expertise, jung discusses religion as a psychological phenomenon, i. There is probably no modern psychologist whose writings are of more significance and value to the minister than the writings of carl jung.