ABSTRACT

How relevant is Jung’s work today?

How and Why We Still Read Jung offers a fresh look at how Jung’s work can still be read and applied to the modern day. Written by seasoned Jungian analysts and Jung scholars, the essays in this collection offer in depth and often personal readings of various works by Jung, including:

Ambiguating Jung

Jung and Alchemy: A Diamonic Reading

Chinese Modernity and the Way of Return

Jung: Respect for the Non-Literal

Including contributions from around the world, this book will be of interest to Jungian analysts and academic Jung scholars globally. With a unique and fresh analysis of Jung’s work by eminent authors in the field, this book will also be a valuable starting point for a first-time reader of Jung.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|20 pages

Ambiguating Jung

chapter 3|20 pages

Jung and Alchemy

A Daimonic Reading

chapter 4|20 pages

On Reading Jung in German

Jung's Significance for Germanistik

chapter 5|21 pages

Reading Jung for Magic

“Active Imagination” for/as “Close Reading”

chapter 6|20 pages

Reading Frye Reading Jung

chapter 7|17 pages

Tangled Up in Blue

A Reappraisal of Complex Theory

chapter 10|17 pages

Jung

Respect for the Non-literal

chapter 11|15 pages

A Lifelong Reading of Jung