Part of Series
Gli scritti raccolti nel primo volume delle Opere di C.G.Jung risalgono agli anni 1900-05. Sono gli anni del Burghölzli, l’ospedale per malattie mentali diretto da Bleuler, in cui Jung svolse un’intensa attività psichiatrica, fondata sulla ricerca di una comprensione dall’interno della personalità squilibrata. Questi scritti dimostrano quanto sia inesatto il rimprovero, talora mosso a Jung, di scarsa fedeltà ai dati sperimentali. A partire dalla sua tesi di laurea sulla Psicologia e patologia dei cosiddetti fenomeni occulti, Jung si dimostra «osservatore e terapeuta in un senso originalissimo, ancorato saldamente a un metodo empirico accogliente qualsiasi acca-dimento psichico con una disponibilità e un rispetto totali e mai prigioniero d’una funzione pùramente descrittiva». Tra i saggi qui raccolti ricordiamo: Psicologia e patologia dei cosiddetti fenomeni occulti (1902), Simulazione di malattia mentale (1903) e La diagnostica psicologica del fatto (1905).
Author
Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death. The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development. Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types. Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the "psychologization of religion", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.
