She has produced an insightful biography.

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Bair's previous biographies of Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beavoir have shown her skill in analysing the tensions in long-standing relationships. This expertise is evident again in her handling of the marriage of the Jungs.

GUARDIAN

Bair's painstaking but cool portrait is...intellectually brilliant, innovative.

IRISH TIMES

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Bair's material is rarely less than complex and it threatens at times to become explosive, yet she inspires confidence throughout.

LITERARY REVIEW

Deirdre Bair has written about some of the most influential figures in 20th century culture - Samuel Beckett, Simone De Beauvoir and Anais Nin. Now she turns her expert eye to the one person whose teachings and writings are the most influential of all: psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung. Jung was Freud's 'crown prince', hand picked by the founding father of psychoanalysis to become the first president of the International Psychoanalytic Association in 1910. Their professional relationship ended in 1914 when Jung could not accept Freud's emphasis on infantile sexuality. Jung abandoned Freud's theory to found his own system of Analytical psychology. As Freud's influence has waned over the years, Jung's ideas - the collective unconscious, the archetypal myths underpinning all societies, synchronocity, 'new age' spirituality and much more - have achieved an overwhelming ascendancy.Bair addresses the myths about Jung - accusations that he was an anti-Semite and a misogynist and that he falsified data - with evidence from his own writings and from those of his colleagues and former patients. The result is groundbreaking and accessible.
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* The definitive biography of one of the modern era's most important thinkers, from an award-winning scholar who draws on unique access to the Jung archives.
She has produced an insightful biography. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHBair's previous biographies of Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beavoir have shown her skill in analysing the tensions in long-standing relationships. This expertise is evident again in her handling of the marriage of the Jungs. - GUARDIANBair's painstaking but cool portrait is...intellectually brilliant, innovative. - IRISH TIMESBair's material is rarely less than complex and it threatens at times to become explosive, yet she inspires confidence throughout. - LITERARY REVIEW
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780316730273
Publisert
2005
Utgiver
Vendor
Little, Brown & Company
Vekt
1363 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
45 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
640

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Deirdre Bair has been a literary journalist and university professor of comparative literature and culture. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, and the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York. She lives in Connecticut.