Psychology and Religion

by Carl Jung

Overview

“These compact vigorous essays constitute Dr. Jung’s most sustained interpretation of the religious function in individual experience.”—Journal of Social Philosophy
 
“This psychological study of religion is particularly interesting in the light of current social and political movements throughout the world.”—The Personalist
 
Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, author of some of the most provocative hypotheses in modern psychology, in this volume describes what he regards as an authentic religious function in the unconscious mind. Using a wealth of material from ancient and medieval gnostic, alchemistic, and occultistic literature, he discusses the religious symbolism of unconscious processes and the possible continuity of religious forms that have appeared and reappeared through the centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300001372
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	09/10/1960
Series:	Terry Lectures Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. His works include Analytic Psychology: Its Theory and Practice; Man and His Symbols; Memories, Dreams, Reflections; and The Red Book.

Editorial Reviews

Dr. Jung presents a sane and practical psychology, and is fair and sympathetic in his attitude toward religion. There is probably no modern psychologist whose writings are of more significance and value to the minister than the writings of Carl Jung.”—Pulpit Digest

“This psychological study of religion is peculiarly interesting in light of current social and political movements throughout the world.”—The Personalist

“These compact vigorous essays constitute Dr. Jung’s most sustained interpretation of the religious function in individual experience.”—Journal of Social Philosophy

“In this slender volume we have Jung up-to-date. . . . Many ideas about the basic foundation of religious needs and beliefs, and, incidentally, about mass drives and impulses of our contemporary life, are in these lectures, strung upon the main thread issuing from the dream life of a patient.”—Saturday Review of Literature

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