C.G. Jung

Between 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from dream analysis to the psychology of alchemy.

In seeking to establish an interdisciplinary science of analytical psychology, C. G. Jung (1875–1961) studied psychiatry, religion, mysticism, literature, physics, biology, education, and criminology.

In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zürich on the French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval’s visionary memoir, Aurélia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent attempt to emerge from madness.

This magnificently illustrated biography of Carl Jung (1875–1961), the Swiss psychologist who introduced the world to the concept of individuation, archetypes, and the collective unconscious, is less an outward chronicle of his life than it is a probing look into his mind and heart.