The Collected Works of C. G. Jung () is a book series containing the first collected edition, in English translation, of the major writings of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
The twenty volumes, including a Bibliography and a General Index, were translated from the original German by R.F.C. Hull, under the editorship of Sir Herbert Read, Michael Fordham and Gerhard Adler. The works consist of published volumes, essays, lectures, letters, and a dissertation written by Jung from 1902 until his death in 1961. The compilation by the documentary editors dates from 1945 onward. The series contains revised versions of works previously published, works not previously translated, and new translations of many of Jung's writings. Several of the volumes are extensively illustrated; each contains an index and most contain a bibliography. Until his death, Jung supervised the revisions of the text, some of which were extensive. A body of Jung's work still remains unpublished.
Princeton University Press published these volumes in the United States as part of its Bollingen Series of books. Routledge & Kegan Paul published them independently in the United Kingdom. In general, the Princeton editions are not available for sale in The Commonwealth, except for Canada, and the Routledge editions are not available for sale in the US. There are many differences in publication dates between the Princeton and Routledge series, as well as some differences in edition numbers and the styling of titles; there are also various hardback and paperback versions, as well as some ebooks, available from both publishers, each with its own ISBN. This article shows dates and titles for hardback (cloth) volumes in the catalog of the Princeton University Press, which also includes paperback and ebook versions. Information about the Routledge series can be found in its own catalogue.
A digital edition, complete except for the General Index in Volume 20, is also available. Both the individual volumes and the complete set are fully searchable.Collected Works of C.G. Jung (2014), JSTOR, Princeton University Press. In the Bollingen Series Volumes Princeton University Press published these volumes in the United States as part of its Bollingen Series of books. The Routledge series includes the same volumes with the same numbers, but with many different publication dates and some minor variations in the styling of titles.
The series includes 20 volumes, one of them published in two parts; detailed chapter-by-chapter abstracts of each volume are available online.
Volume 1 – Psychiatric Studies (1957) Volume 2 – Experimental Researches (1973) Volume 3 – Psychogenesis of Mental Disease (1960) Volume 4 – Freud & Psychoanalysis (1961) Volume 5 – Symbols of Transformation (1967; a revision of Psychology of the Unconscious, 1912) Volume 6 – Psychological Types (1971) Volume 7 – Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1967) Volume 8 – Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche (1969) Volume 9 (Part 1) – Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1969) Volume 9 (Part 2) – Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (1969) Volume 10 – Civilization in Transition (1970) Volume 11 – Psychology and Religion: West and East (1970) Volume 12 – Psychology and Alchemy (1968) Volume 13 – Alchemical Studies (1968) Volume 14 – Mysterium Coniunctionis (1970) Volume 15 – Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature (1966) Volume 16 – Practice of Psychotherapy (1966) Volume 17 – Development of Personality (1954) Volume 18 – The Symbolic Life (1977) Volume 19 – General Bibliography (Revised Edition) (1990) Volume 20 – General Index (1979)
Additional content In addition to the 20-volume Collected Works, the following titles are also included as part of the Bollingen Series:
Supplementary Volume A – The Zofingia Lectures Supplementary Volume B – The Psychology of the Unconscious (first version of Symbols of Transformation) Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminars Given in 1925 Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminars Given in 1928–30 Visions: Notes on the Seminars Given in 1930–34 The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga. Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminars Given in 1934–39: Vol 1 Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminars Given in 1934–39: Vol 2 Children's Dreams. Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936–1940 Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
Vol 1. Psychiatric Studies Psychiatric Studies, volume 1 in The Collected Works, contains Jung's papers written between 1902 and 1905, focusing on descriptive and experimental psychiatry from his early days in medical practice. They show the influence on Jung of Eugen Bleuler and Pierre Janet.
The book begins with Jung's doctoral dissertation "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena", a case study of an adolescent girl who claimed to be a psychic medium. It also includes papers on cryptomnesia, Freudian slips in reading, simulated insanity, and other subjects, and discusses some conditions of inferiority and altered states of consciousness which were previously thought to be occult phenomena. Included are case studies of sleepwalkers and patients who had hypomania.
The papers in this volume were edited by Sir Herbert Read, Michael Fordham and Gerhard Adler.
Editions
1957. 1st ed. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. . 1970. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. .
Vol 2. Experimental Researches Experimental Researches, volume 2 in The Collected Works, edited by Gerhard Adler, includes Jung's word association studies in normal and abnormal psychology; two 1909 Clark University lectures on the association method; and three articles on psychophysical researches from American and English journals in 1907 and 1908.Jung, C. G. 1973. Experimental Researches, Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 2. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. . (Routledge: ).
The word association studies described in this book were an important contribution to diagnostic psychology and psychiatry, and show the influence on Jung of Eugen Bleuler and Sigmund Freud.
Vol 3. Psychogenesis of Mental Disease
Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, volume 3 in The Collected Works, shows the development of Jung's thoughts about the nature of mental illness, and established him as a pioneer and scientific contributor to psychiatry.
It contains "On the Psychology of Dementia Praecox" (1907), which Abraham Brill described as "indispensable for every student of psychiatry;" as well as nine other papers in psychiatry, all of which demonstrating Jung's original thinking about the origins of mental illness and give insight into the development of his later concepts such as the archetypes and the collective unconscious. (Click on this book's title to see the details). Among the latter nine works, "The Content of the Psychoses" (1908) and two papers from 1956 and 1958, respectively, discuss Jung's conclusions after long experience in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia.
This volume was edited and translated from German by Read, Hull, and Adler.
Editions
1960. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. . 1992. London: Routledge. .
Vol 4. Freud & Psychoanalysis Freud & Psychoanalysis, volume 4 in The Collected Works, contains most of Jung's published writings on Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis from 1906–1916, with two papers from later years. The former period extends from the time of enthusiastic collaboration between Jung and Freud, through that when Jung's growing appreciation of religious experience and his criticism of Freud's emphasis on psychopathology led to their final break. Subjects covered include Freud's theory of hysteria, the analysis of dreams, the theory of psychoanalysis, and more.
The Times Literary Supplement said that "This volume is an excellent introduction into Jungian theories and demonstrates their fundamental differences from psychoanalysis. It also makes it understandable that Jung was often called a mystic even at the early stage of the development of his theories", and that this "volume will furnish excellent source material for historians interested in the gradual parting of the ways in the developing ideas of these two giants. An excellent introduction into Jungian theories..."
Editions
1961. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1961. London: Routledge. .
Vol 5. Symbols of Transformation Symbols of Transformation, volume 5 in The Collected Works, is a complete revision of Psychology of the Unconscious (1911–12), Jung's first important statement of his independent position in psychology.
In 1911, Jung said that the book "laid down a programme to be followed for the next few decades of my life." It covers many and varied fields of study, including among others: psychiatry, psychoanalysis, ethnology, and comparative religion. It became a standard work and was translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and Italian as well as English. Its somewhat misleading title in English was The Psychology of the Unconscious. In the foreword to Symbols of Transformation, Jung wrote: The book contains material on directed thinking vs. associative thinking (dreaming), the Hieros gamos, and extensive analysis of the fantasies of a Miss Frank Miller, including the symbols of the hero, mother, and sacrifice.
Editions
1956. London: Routledge. . 1967. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. .
Vol 6. Psychological Types
Vol 7. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
Vol 8. Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche, volume 8 in The Collected Works, is a revised translation of one of Jung's most important longer works. There is an appendix of four shorter papers on personality type, published between 1913 and 1935.
This volume traces an important line of development in Jung's thought from 1912 onwards. It first elaborates Freud's concept of sexual libido into Jung's own concept: psychic energy. Then it shows how Jung slowly arrived at a concept even more controversial than psychic energy was in its day: psychic reality. The book has Jung's first mention of the archetype, as well as his later views on its nature. There is also a 1916 essay on the therapeutic uses of active imagination.
Several important chapters elucidate Jung's ideas on synchronicity, which were later published separately as Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle.
Editions
1970. London: Routledge. . 1970. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. .
Vol 9. Part 1 and 2 Part 1 – Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious is part 1 of volume 9 in The Collected Works, and includes numerous full-color illustrations. In this volume, Jung's theory is first established through three essays, followed by essays on specific archetypes, and finally a section relating them to the process of individuation.
The Journal of Analytical Psychology calls this volume:
Editions 1969. 1st ed. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1991. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. .
Part 2 – Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, part 2 of volume 9 in The Collected Works, was originally published in German (1951), and is a major work of Jung's later years.
Its central theme is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the Self, whose traditional historical equivalent is the figure of Christ. Jung demonstrates his thesis by an investigation of the Christian fish symbol, and of Gnostic and alchemical symbolism. He regards these as phenomena of cultural assimilation. Chapters on the ego, the shadow, and the anima and animus, provide a valuable summary of these elementary concepts in Jungian psychology.