2017 Reprint of 1933 U.S. Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Considered by many to be one of the most important books in the field of psychology, Modern Man in Search of a Soul is a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung. The writing covers a broad array of subjects such as gnosticism, theosophy, Eastern philosophy and spirituality in general. The first part of the book deals with dream analysis in its practical application, the problems and aims of modern psychotherapy, and also his own theory of psychological types. The middle section addresses Jung's beliefs about the stages of life and Archaic man. He also contrasts his own theories with those of Sigmund Freud. In the latter parts of the book Jung discusses psychology and literature and devotes a chapter to the basic postulates of analytical psychology. The last two chapters are devoted to the spiritual problem of modern man in aftermath of World War I. He compares it to the flowering of gnosticism in the 2nd century and investigates how psychotherapists are like the clergy.
Carl Gustav Jung, una de las referencias de la psicología de todos los tiempos, fue un médico, psiquiatra, psicólogo y ensayista suizo, figura clave en la etapa inicial del psicoanálisis; posteriormente, fundador de la escuela de Psicología analítica, también llamada Psicología de los complejos y Psicología profunda. Fue discípulo de Freud y profesor en las universidades de Zúrich y Basilea.
Carl Gustav Jung fue un pionero de la psicología profunda y uno de los estudiosos de esta disciplina más ampliamente leídos en el siglo veinte. Su abordaje teórico y clínico enfatizó la conexión funcional entre la estructura de la psique y la de sus productos.
Es autor de más de quince títulos, entre los que destacan La psicología de la transferencia, Psicología y simbólica del arquetipo, Arquetipos e inconsciente colectivo, Las relaciones entre el yo y el inconsciente, Símbolos de transformación y El hombre y sus símbolos.
Carl Gustav Jung was born in July 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, into a very religious family. He was a withdrawn and lonely child, who spent much of his childhood unable to relate to brothers or sisters. Partly because of this, he used to play with elements of nature and used his imagination to weave extravagant narrative lines about everything he experienced.
However, the unusual mental associations and the symbolism that populated young Jung's mind did not limit their reign to the hours he was awake. Jung began very early to have very vivid dreams with a strong symbolic charge. And, as expected from someone who dedicated a large part of his career to studying dreams, at least one of these dreams marked him for life.