Name: Children's Dreams: Notes From the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (Jung Seminars)
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Author: Carl Gustav Jung
ISBN: 9780691148076

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Children's Dreams: Notes From the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (Jung Seminars)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Carl Gustav Jung

Illustrated by

Lorenz Jung

Maria Meyer-Grass

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

524

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.3 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.74 kg.

ISBN

0691148074

ISBN13

9780691148076

Synopsis "Children's Dreams: Notes From the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (Jung Seminars) "

In the 1930s C. G. Jung embarked upon a bold investigation into childhood dreams as remembered by adults to better understand their significance to the lives of the dreamers. Jung presented his findings in a four-year seminar series at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Children's Dreams marks their first publication in English, and fills a critical gap in Jung's collected works. Here we witness Jung the clinician more vividly than ever before--and he is witty, impatient, sometimes authoritarian, always wise and intellectually daring, but also a teacher who, though brilliant, could be vulnerable, uncertain, and humbled by life's great mysteries. These seminars represent the most penetrating account of Jung's insights into children's dreams and the psychology of childhood. At the same time they offer the best example of group supervision by Jung, presenting his most detailed and thorough exposition of Jungian dream analysis and providing a picture of how he taught others to interpret dreams. Presented here in an inspired English translation commissioned by the Philemon Foundation, these seminars reveal Jung as an impassioned educator in dialogue with his students and developing the practice of analytical psychology. An invaluable document of perhaps the most important psychologist of the twentieth century at work, this splendid volume is the fullest representation of Jung's views on the interpretation of children's dreams, and signals a new wave in the publication of Jung's collected works as well as a renaissance in contemporary Jung studies.

Carl Gustav Jung

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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 He was a withdrawn and lonely child, who spent much of his childhood unable to relate to brothers or sisters.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.

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