Carl Gustav Jung: Avant-Garde Conservative

by J. Sherry

Overview

Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychological types have often been overshadowed by allegations that he was anti-Semitic and a Nazi sympathizer. Most accounts have unfortunately been marred by factual errors and quotes taken out of context; this has been due to the often partisan sympathies of those who have written about him. This book provides a more accurate and comprehensive account of Jung's controversial opinions about art, politics, and race.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137281944
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/04/2012
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	269
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

JAY SHERRY is an independent historian of psychoanalysis and German intellectual history. He has written for a variety of psychoanalytic publications, primarily about the life and work of Carl Jung. He holds a PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin.

Table of Contents

Basel Upbringing Freud and the War Years Jung's Post-Freudian Network His Presidency Nazi Germany and Abroad World War Two The Cold War Years

Editorial Reviews

*Winner of the Gradiva Award for Best Book from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis*

"Sherry puts Jung and his work in historical context, providing a gold mine of obscure facts along the way. Extensively research and documented, the book provides an unbiased treatment of Jung's work. This study is a must for those interested in Jung and the intellectual climate of his time. Recommended." - CHOICE

'Jay Sherry's study is by turns indispensible for the future of historical research on Jung and disturbing in the picture it paints.' Journal of Analytical Psychology

"In placing Carl Jung in the full context of his time and place, Jay Sherry's book does what all good history does. Carl Jung: Avant-Garde Conservative displays the nuance and balance often lacking in the contentious literature on Jung. While sympathetic to Jung as a thinker wrestling with the challenges and conflicts of modernity, Sherry comprehensively and critically examines the shadows as well as the shadings of Jung's thoughts and actions. Of particular note in this regard is the author's careful contextual analysis of Jung's words and actions concerning Hitler and the Nazis." - Geoffrey Cocks, Julian S. Rammelkamp Professor of History, Albion College

"Jay Sherry goes to great scholarly lengths to paint the complex picture that was the cultural and political backdrop of the life and work of C. G. Jung. He handles these complex factors with a balanced intelligence and lack of bias. In so doing, he enables the reader to appreciate deeply that Jung was not only a truly exceptional individual but also a product of a broader world. Dr. Sherry is to be commended for so comprehensively and ably filling a significant and problematic gap in the world of Jung scholarship." - Stephen A. Martin, Co-Founder and President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation and former Editor-in-Chief of Quadrant: The Journal of Contemporary Jungian Thought

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