The Jung Cult: The Origins of a Charismatic Movement

by Richard Noll

Overview

Winner of the 1994 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Psychology, Association of American Publishers, The Jung Cult is the classic path-breaking contextual history of the development of C.G. Jung's thought and Nietzschean religious movement.

From Simon & Schuster, The Jung Cult is a revolutionary reassessment of Jung's life and work—available now in paperback.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684834238
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	06/05/1997
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Richard Noll is a clinical psychologist and historian of medicine. He is best known for his publications in the history of psychiatry, including two critical volumes on the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung and his books and articles on the history of dementia praecox and schizophrenia

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Pt. 1 The Historical Context of C. G. Jung

Ch. 1 The Problem of the Historical Jung

Ch. 2 The Fin de Siecle

Ch. 3 Freud, Haeckel, and Jung: Naturphilosophie, Evolutionary Biology, and Secular Regeneration

Ch. 4 Fin-de-Siecle Occultism and Promises of Rebirth

Ch. 5 Volkisch Utopianism and Sun Worship

Ch. 6 Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido: Solar Mysticism as Science

Pt. 2 Prelude to a Cult: Chronology and Biography

Ch. 7 Spirits, Memory Images, and the Longing for Mystery: 1895-1907

Ch. 8 Otto Gross, Nietzscheanism, and Matriarchal Neopaganism: 1908

Ch. 9 "The Mothers! The Mothers! It Sounds So Strangely Weird!": J. J. Bachofen, Otto Gross, Stefan George, and Jung

Ch. 10 Visionary Excavations of the Collective Unconscious: 1909-1915

Ch. 11 The Collective Unconscious, the God Within, and Wotan's Runes: 1916

Pt. 3 The Jung Cult

Ch. 12 "The Silent Experiment in Group Psychology": 1916

Ch. 13 "The Secret Church": The Transmission of Charismatic Authority

Notes

Index