| Description |
xv, 387 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
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Ch. 13. "The Secret Church": The Transmission of Charismatic Authority |
| Summary |
In this provocative reassessment of C. G. Jung's thought, Richard Noll boldly argues that such ideas as the "collective unconscious" and the theory of the archetypes come as much from late nineteenth-century occultism, neopaganism, and social Darwinian teachings as they do from natural science. Noll sees the break with Sigmund Freud in 1912 not as a split within the psychoanalytic movement but as Jung's turning away from science and his founding of a new religion, which offered a rebirth ("individuation"), surprisingly like that celebrated in ancient mystery cult teachings. Jung, in fact, consciously inaugurated a cult of personality centered on himself and passed down to the present by a body of priest-analysts extending this charismatic movement, or "personal religion," to late twentieth-century individuals |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-376) and index |
| Subject |
Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961 -- Religion.
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Psychoanalysis and religion -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
94004831 |
| ISBN |
0691037248 (alk. paper) |
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