Free Psychology Books: Jungians a Comparative and Historical Perspective by Thomas B. Kirsch

Jungians a Comparative and Historical Perspective by Thomas B. Kirsch

There are many unanswered questions about the depth psychologies, and those asking these questions – as well as those answering them – do so from many different perspectives, disciplines, and professions. As one who reads and thinks about these writings, I have found myself asking three questions over and over again: What are these psychologies, what are the forms of thought and action which compose them? Where do they come from, what are their origins? How do they affect our culture and the lives we live within that culture? On each of these counts, Tom Kirsch has written an important, timely, and generous book. The Jungians sheds new light on these three questions, which have been around now for almost one hundred years, when the depth psychologies first appeared. Strictly speaking, his book is – topically at least – more on the second, for it is a history of the internal development of Jungian psychology from its origins in the mind and life of Carl G. Jung in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1912–1913, through its growth into various kinds of groups, societies, institutes, and the like, and ending with its contemporary international organizations. There are many ways to think about and “do” the history of the development of the depth psychologies. Thinking of this history as the history of a social movement has the advantage of emphasizing the interactive nature of the development, which otherwise tends to be overlooked, even excluded. Movements are sites upon which crucial issues about an emerging field are contested and negotiated by key figures. As such, the movement is an essential part of the history, for its activities and interactions are events which succeed the life of the creative and originative figure but also precede the present-day collective, institutional organizations which represent what was once a movement.

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