Psychological Types or the Psychology of Individuation-Fast Shipping

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Title: Psychological Types or the Psychology of Individuation

Author: . C. G. Jung, translated by H. Godwyn Baynes M.B.

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., New York

Published: 1923

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Number of Pages: 654

Catalogs: Psychology, Philosophy, History of Medicine

: Original dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Spine is faded and somewhat dirty, and edges are fraying. Corners bumped and exposed, some dirt on cover. Ownership information in ink on flyleaf. Occasional penciled marginalia; pages are tanned. Pastedowns show some foxing. One page before the table of contents may be missing. This is a well-used copy of Jung’s 1921 book, originally published in German as Psychologische Typen. This is the first English-language edition. It is the baseline of many personality typology systems, particularly Myers Briggs. Contents include chapters on 1. The problem of types in the history of classical and medieval thought, including discussion of the gnostics, the theological disputes of the ancient church, the problem of transubstantiation, nominalism and realism, the holy communion controversy between Luther and Zwingli; 2. Schiller’s ideas upon the type problem, including letters on the aesthetic education of man, a discussion on naïve and sentimental poetry; 3. The Apollonian and the Dionysian; 4. The type problem in the discernment of human character, including general remarks upon Jordan’s types and specialand criticism of Jordan’s types; 5. The problem of types in poetry including Spitteler’s characterization of types and a comparison with Goethe’s Prometheus; 6. The type problem in psychiatry; 7. The problem of typical attitudes in aesthetics; 8. The problem of types in modern philosophy, including William James’s types and the characteristic pairs of opposites; 9. the type problem in biography; 10. the extraverted and introverted types; and definitions. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded the school of analytical psychology. Hardcover, good condition. 654 pages, octavo.