""Dreaming the Myth Onwards"": C. G. Jung on Chri, Giegerich..

Name: ""Dreaming the Myth Onwards"": C. G. Jung on Chri, Giegerich..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The fundamental importance of Christianity for Jung is well documented in his writings and letters. For the whole of his long career the great psychologist had wrestled with what he called \"" ... the great snake of the centuries. the burden of the human mind. the problem of Christianity.\"" By comparison, his statements about Hegel are quite scarce. Both topics, nevertheless, have in common that they elicited from Jung radical accusations, accusations not presented in the calm tone of a psychological scholar but fired by a deep-seated personal affect that propelled Jung to wish \""to dream the myth onwards,\"" that is, to move to a new, his own improved and corrected version of Christianity. Rather than merely portraying and elucidating Jung\u2019s views, this volume critically examines his theses and arguments by means of a series of close readings and by confronting his claims with the texts on which his interpretations are based. The guiding principle, in the spirit of which the auth.