‘Love is a force of destiny whose power reaches from heaven to hell.’ So Jung advises while reflecting on “The Love Problem of a Student’, an essay contained in this volume. But it is not just love that Jung speaks of in this book. Taking as its theme Jung’s interpretation of the feminine principle in his hugely influential theories about the inner world of the individual, it guides the reader from the mythological archetype of the mother-figure to the experience of women in twentieth-century Europe, explaining along the way concepts crucial to Jung’s understanding of the personality, such as animus and anima. Many of his contentions have become the assumptions of the generations growing up in the twenty-first century.Aspects of the Feminineis a provocative, controversial book which offers readers the opportunity to discover at first hand just how radical Jung’s arguments were.
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Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/ YUUNG; born Karl Gustav Jung, German: [kaʁl ˈjʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961), was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung’s work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology.
Freud saw the younger Jung as the heir he had been seeking to take forward his “new science” of psychoanalysis and to this end secured his appointment as President of his newly founded International Psychoanalytical Association. Jung’s research and personal vision, however, made it impossible for him to follow his older colleague’s doctrine and a schism became inevitable. This division was personally painful for Jung and resulted in the establishment of Jung’s analytical psychology as a comprehensive system separate from psychoanalysis.
Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual’s conscious and unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be the main task of human development. He created some of the best known psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex and extraversion and introversion.
Jung was also an artist, craftsman, builder and a prolific writer. Many of his works were not published until after his death and some are still awaiting publication.
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کارل گوستاو یونگ، زاده ی 26 جولای 1875 و درگذشته ی 6 جون 1961، روانپزشک، فیلسوف و نویسنده ای سوئیسی بود که به خاطر فعالیت هایش در روانشناسی و ارائه ی نظریاتش تحت عنوان «روان شناسی تحلیلی» شناخته می شود. یونگ در کسویل سوییس متولد شد. او در جوانی مجذوب علم و فلسفه شد و دانشگاه بازل برای تحصیل در رشته ی پزشکی به او بورس داد. یونگ پس از مدتی به عضویت انجمن مناظرات دانشگاه درآمد. او بیش از دو سال در جلسات احضار روح شرکت می کرد چرا که این جلسات را موضوعی برای تحقیقات خود در نظر می گرفت. یونگ دوران کارآموزی را در روان پزشکی از دسامبر 1900 به عنوان دستیار بیمارستان بورگهولتزلی از درمانگاه های وابسته به دانشگاه زوریخ آغاز کرد. او در مدت نه سال در بورگهولتزلی در برنامه ی پیشگام تجربی روانشناسی تحت سرپرستی اوژن بلویلر رئیس بیمارستان فعالیت کرد. یونگ را در کنار زیگموند فروید از پایه گذاران دانش نوین روانکاوی قلمداد و از او به عنوان پدر روانشناسی نوین یاد می کنند.