Introduction to Jungian psychology : notes of the seminar on analytical psychology given in 1925

234 Pages·2012·2.97 MB·English

by  Jung

BOLLINGEN SERIES XCIX
INTRODUCTION TO
JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY
NOTES OF THE SEMINAR ON
ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
GIVEN IN 1925 BY
C. G. Jung
Original Edition edited by William McGuire
Revised Edition edited by Sonu Shamdasani
Published with the support of the Philemon Foundation
This book is part of the Philemon Series of the Philemon Foundation

Copyright © 1989, 2012 by Princeton University Press.
Introduction and additional notes to the 2012 edition
copyright © 2012 by Sonu Shamdasani Published by Princeton University Press,
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Carl Gustav Jung by Margarethe Fellerer.
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First printing, under the title Analytical Psychology, 1989
First Princeton/Bollingen paperback printing, 1991
Revised edition, with a new introduction and updates by Sonu Shamdasani, 2012
The volumes of seminar notes constitute
number XCIX in Bollingen Series,
sponsored by Bollingen Foundation The text here edited is that of the original transcript
prepared by Cary F. de Angulo and privately issued in multigraphed
form by “members of the class” and copyright 1926
by Dr. C. G. Jung, Zurich Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875–1961.
Introduction to Jungian psychology: notes of the seminar on analytical
psychology given in 1925 / by C.G. Jung; original edition edited by William
McGuire; revised edition edited by Sonu Shamdasani.—Rev. ed.
p. cm.—(Philemon series) (Bollingen series; 99)
Rev. ed. of: Analytical psychology: notes of the seminar given in 1925 / by
C.G. Jung; edited by William McGuire. c1989.
Includes indexes.
ISBN 978-0-691-15205-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Jungian psychology.
I. McGuire, William, 1917– II. Shamdasani, Sonu, 1962– III. Jung, C. G.
(Carl Gustav), 1875-1961. Analytical psychology. IV. Title.
BF173.J666 2012 150.19’54—dc23 2011029585
Printed on acid–free paper
Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
Preface to the 2012 Philemon Series Edition, by Sonu Shamdasani
Introduction, by Sonu Shamdasani
Introduction to the 1989 Edition, by William McGuire
Acknowledgments
Members of the Seminar
List of Abbreviations
Foreword, by Cary F. de Angulo
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Lecture 12
Lecture 13
Lecture 14
Lecture 15
Lecture 16
APPENDIX TO LECTURE 16
“SHE”
“THE EVIL VINEYARD”
“L’ATLANTIDE”
Indexes
1. GENERAL INDEX
2. CASES IN SUMMARY
3. DREAMS, FANTASIES, AND VISIONS
4. CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF JUNG’S WORKS CITED AND DISCUSSED
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung
Color plates follow page 134
PREFACE TO THE 2012 PHILEMON SERIES
EDITION
From a historical perspective, these seminars were in many respects the most
important that Jung ever delivered, as they are the only reliable firsthand source
in which Jung speaks of the development of his ideas and his self-
experimentation, which gave rise to his Red Book, Liber Novus. However, they
have never widely received the attention they deserve. In 1989 they were
published in the Bollingen Series in an edition edited by William McGuire
(1917–2009).1 The edition was prepared to a high standard.2 The publication of
Liber Novus provides an opportunity for a new presentation of the seminars, as
Jung’s discussion here now appears in a new light. With this revised Philemon
Series edition, a new introduction has been added, together with cross references
to the material Jung refers to in Liber Novus, as well as further additional notes
with new information. These have been identified by 2012. Mistakes in the 1989
edition have been silently omitted. Further research has shown that the passages
from Joan Corrie’s ABC of Jung’s Psychology identified as being from this
seminar, and reproduced in an addenda, were actually from Jung’s seminar in
Swanage, England, presented in the same year, and so have been omitted.
McGuire assumed that the seminars took place on Mondays between March and
July, without a break, and so added dates to each lecture. However, recently
recovered notes by Cary Baynes suggest that the seminars took place twice
week, so the additional dates have been deleted.
Sonu Shamdasani
1
See John Beebe, “Obituary, William McGuire,” Journal of Analytical Psychology 55 (2010): pp. 157–
58.
2
In 1988 I assisted with some research in preparation of this volume, which was an instructive
experience at that time.
INTRODUCTION
SONU SHAMDASANI
March 24, 1925, Zurich. Cary Baynes noted:
Yesterday began the new order, that is to say, the first of the seminars.
These latter like the ancient wars as described in the school text-books,
have their immediate and their remote cause, of which the former is
luminously set out in Jung’s circular letter. It is said that when Miss Corrie
received said letter she felt as though her father had died.1 There was
general weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth among the faithful, but
rejoicing from this of the “Four Winds.” As I have had only two analytical
hours since the first of December, it seemed a golden opportunity.
We meet Mondays and Thursdays from 4.30 to 6 P.M. in the rooms at
Gemeinde Strasse.2 Yesterday there were present the following: Dr. Shaw,
Dr. Kay (aet. 28, hailing from Australia, seen by me for the first time, and
notes as being very nice looking), Miss Sergeant, Kristine Mann, Dr.
Ward, Dr. Gordon, Beckwith,3 (looking as though stung by a bee
convinced that the seminars mean the loss of his hour with Jung, which
they do not but his Anima was holding him to the conviction as long as
possible), Murray4 (aet. 32, lately arrived from Cambridge, England, but
sometime from the U.S.A.—came with 60 questions, and has understood
the Types—stammers to the Queen’s taste, much more attractively than I
do—chemist by profession, owns a piece of wilderness in Vermont
whither he hopes to lure Jung for a conference, when told of California
replied that the latter was unsuitable because it had a future and that after
the site of the conference was chosen within two weeks an apartment
house would be built, Vermont on the other hand would be the same 80
years hence—this was thought by me to be a conservative estimate. I think