THEORISTS OF MYTH: CARL JUNG
Some Questions To Consider
Who was Carl Jung?
What is the idea of the "collective unconscious" and what role does it play in Jung's thought?
What are archetypes? Where do they come from? What are some examples of archetypes?
What, according to Jung, is myth?
How would you begin to compare and contrast Jung with Sigmund Freud and how can this pairing be used to better understand the ideas of Jung?
How useful is Jung as an interpreter of myth? What does studying myth from a Jungian perspective imply? What are the strengths and weakness of his theories?
Possible Starting Places
Myths-Dreams-Symbols -- Carl Jung:
A concise introduction to Jungian concepts.
Personality Theories -- Carl Jung, 1875-1961: A good introduction to Jung's life and thought from George Boeree. See also Boeree's Introduction to C.G. Jung.
Carl Jung -- Sea Of Faith: A 17-minute clip from a 1984 BBC series on the response of Christianity to the modern world, the segment highlight Jung and his relationship with Freud.
Carl Jung -- The Wisdom Of The Dream: A 3-hour PBS documentary that holds up quite well despite being several decades old.
Web-Sites
Carl
Jung -- Wikipedia: An entry
from the on-line encyclopedia.
Psychoanalysis Of Myth:
A comparison of Jung's and Freud's approach to myth drawn from Stefan
Stenudd's dissertation on creation myths. Note that there are nine short
pages to click.
Carl Jung Resources: See in particular Collective Unconscious; Archetypes; and Jung And Freud.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961): A very concise overview.
Psychological Approaches To Greek Myths: A brief comparison of the theories of Freud and Jung.
For an application of Jungian ideas to the study of world mythology, see the
Archive For Research In Archetypal Symbolism and its two book-length
publications, an
Encyclopedia Of
Archetypal Symbolism, Volume One
and an
Encyclopedia Of
Archetypal Symbolism, Volume Two -- The Body.
Carl Jung, "Approaching The Unconscious," 1964: Some reading notes.
Jung Page: A resource, started by Jungian analyst Don Williams in 1995, that provides educational resources for those interested in the study of Jung.
Articles
David Carter, "Carl Jung In The Twenty-First Century," Contemporary Review, 293 (Winter 2011): 441-51.
Robert A. Segal, "Jung's Very Twentieth-Century View Of Myth," Journal Of Analytical Psychology, 48 (November 2003).
F.X. Charet, "Understanding Jung: Recent Biography And Scholarship," Journal Of Analytical Psychology, 45 (April 2000).
Erica Good, "Spiritual Questing: Embarked on A Search for Meaning, More and More Americans Are Turning to the Mythic Psychology of the Late Carl Jung," U.S. News and World Report (December 7, 1992).
Jung In The News
Carl Gustav Jung, New York Times: An archive of past articles from the New York Times.
"What Would Carl Jung Make Of 2011?," BBC News Magazine, June 6, 2011.
Mark Vernon, "Carl Jung: Religion And The Search For Meaning," Guardian, July 18, 2011.
Adam Phillips, "A Man In Two Minds," Guardian, January 17, 2004.
Robin McKee, "Hell,
Jung Lovers,"
Observer, December 28, 2003.
Google Books
Steven F. Walker, Jung And The Jungians On Myth: Selections from Google Books of a Routledge publication.
Carl Jung et al.,
Modern Man In Search Of A Soul:
Deirdre Bair, Jung:
Robert Steele and Susan Virginia Swinney, Freud And Jung, Conflict Of Interpretation:
Robert Ellwood, "Carl Gustav Jung And Wotan's Return": A chapter from his book-length study, Politics Of Myth.
Audio And Video Sources
"Carl Jung," In Our
Time, BBC Radio 4, December 2, 2004: Click on the Listen To This
Edition again button in the left margin.
Carl Jung, Wisdom Of The Dream, Part I:
Miscellaneous
World Myth -- Jungian Theory and Its Application: An outline and reading list for a short seminar series by Dr. Roderick Main on Jung and mythology.
Myths-Dreams-Symbols: A short anthology of quotations from the 1964 Jung-edited volume Man And His Symbols.
Links
Carl Gustav Jung: A series of History of Psychology links from the University of Dayton.