Symbolický život - Různé spisy I – Jung Carl Gustav (2026)

This first volume of a selection of Carl Gustav Jung’s writings contains lectures, longer and shorter essays, articles, and reviews spanning his entire professional career, from its beginnings in 1901 through the middle period of active practice, into the 1950s, and the later years devoted exclusively to writing, up to 1961, along with several posthumous works. They are united by the theme of the symbol, which Jung examines and interprets from various perspectives, especially in the London lecture The Symbolic Life (1939), the Tavistock lectures On the Foundations of Analytical Psychology (1935), and the essay Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams (1961). The methods he presents, which formed the basis not only of his treatment of mental illness but also of the exploration of the inner life of healthy people, include the association experiment, dream analysis, and active imagination. These methods led to key discoveries, such as the autonomous nature of the unconscious. The lectures also address practical questions arising from individual cases, including the function of religious symbols, the relationship between religion and psychology, and phenomena seemingly at the margins of contemporary society, such as occult phenomena, especially spiritualism, which Jung sees as revealing the content and exteriorization of unconscious processes rather than the immortality of the soul. The thematic section “The Psychogenesis of Mental Illness” also includes studies of psychotic processes and the psychology of criminals. The volume concludes with articles and reviews on the treatment of neurotic illnesses and polemics with Freud and psychoanalysis. The contents are in Czech.