Jung - The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings

B O L L I N G E N S E R I E S X X

THE COLLECTED WORKS

OF

C. G. JUNG

VOLUME 18

EDITORS

SIR HERBERT READ

MICHAEL FORDHAM, F.R.C.PSYCH., HON. F.B.PS.S .

GERHARD ADLER, PH.D .

WILLIAM MCGUIRE , executive editor

MISCELLANEOUS
WRITINGS

C. G. JUNG

TRANSLATED BY R. F. C. HULL

B O L L I N G E N S E R I E S X X

COPYRIGHT 1950, 1953, COPYRIGHT 1955, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1976 BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, PRINCETON, N.J.

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For the following, copyright in the U.S.A. has been assigned to Princeton University Press: Foreword to Fierz-David, The Dream of Poliphilo, copyright 1950 by Bollingen Foundation Inc. Foreword to Perry, The Self in Psychotic Process, copyright. 1953, by the Regents of the University of California. Foreword to Abegg, Ostasien denkt anders, copyright 1953 by the Analytical Psychology Club of New York. Foreword to Neumann. Origins and History of Consciousness, copyright 1954 by Bollingen Foundation Inc. Foreword to Harding, Womans Mysteries, copyright 1955 by Dr. Esther Harding. Human Nature Does Not Yield Easily to Idealistic Advice, copyright 1955 by New Republic. Foreword to de Laszlo, Psyche and Symbol, copyright 1958 by Bollingen Foundation, Inc. Foreword to Bertine, Human Relationships, copyright 1958 by Eleanor Bertine. Foreword to Jacobi, Complex/Archetype/Symbol, copyright 1959 by Bollingen Foundation, Inc. The Future of Parapsychology, copyright 1963 by International Journal of Parapsychology. The Tavistock Lectures, copyright 1968 by the Heirs of C. G. Jung. Answers to Questions on Freud, copyright 1968 by the Analytical Psychology Club of New York. Foreword to Neumann, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic, copyright 1969 by the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc., New York. Depth Psychology and Self Knowledge, copyright 1969, and Adaptation, Individuation, Collectivity, copyright 1970, by the Analytical Psychology Club of New York. Foreword to Harding, The Way of All Women, copyright 1970 by the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc., New York. Foreword to Jacobi, The Psychology of C. G. Jung, copyright 1973 by Jolande Jacobi. The following were copyright in the U.S.A.: Foreword to Custance, Wisdom, Madness and Folly, copyright 1952 by John Custance. Foreword to Jaff, Apparitions and Precognition, copyright 1963 by University Books Inc. Foreword to a catalogue on alchemy, copyright 1968 by Yale University Library. Due acknowledgements are made. Sigmund Freud: On Dreams., Marginal Note on Wittels: Die Sexuelle Not, A Comment on Tausks Criticism of Nelken, and Religion and Psychology: Reply to Buber, copyright 1973 by Princeton University Press.

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When these Collected Works were planned, during the late 1940s, in consultation with Professor Jung, the Editors set aside a brief final volume for reviews, short articles, etc., of the psychoanalytic period, later introductions, etc., Bibliography of Jungs Writings, and General Index of the Collected Works. Now arriving at publication soon after Jungs centenary year, this collection of miscellany has become the most ample volume in the editionand no longer includes the Bibliography and General Index, which have been assigned to volumes 19 and 20 respectively.

Volume 18 now contains more than one hundred and thirty items, ranging in time from 1901, when Jung at 26 had just accepted his first professional appointment as an assistant at the Burghlzli, to 1961, shortly before his death. The collection, touching upon virtually every aspect of Jungs professional and intellectual interest during a long life devoted to the exegesis of the symbol, justifies its title, taken from a characteristic work of Jungs middle years, the seminar given to the Guild of Pastoral Psychology in London, 1939.

This profusion of material is the consequence of three factors. After Jung retired from his active medical practice, in the early 1950s, until his death in June 1961, he devoted most of his time to writing: not only the longer works for which a place was made in the original scheme of the edition, but an unexpectedly large number of forewords to books by pupils and colleagues, replies to journalistic questionnaires, encyclopaedia articles, occasional addresses, and letters (some of which, because of their technical character, or because they were published elsewhere, are included in Volume 18 rather than in the Letters volumes). Of works in this class, Jung wrote some fifty after 1950.

Secondly, research for the later volumes of the Collected Works, for the Letters (including The Freud/Jung Letters), and for the General Bibliography has brought to light many reviews, short articles, reports, etc., from the earlier years of Jungs career. A considerable run of psychiatric reviews from the years 19061910 was discovered by Professor Henri F. Ellenberger and turned over to the Editors, who wish to record their gratitude to him.

Finally, the Jung archives at Ksnacht have yielded several manuscripts in a finished or virtually finished state, the earliest being a 1901 report on Freuds On Dreams. A related category of material embraces abstracts of lectures, evidently unwritten, the transcripts of which were not read and approved by Jung. The abstracts themselves have been deemed worthy of inclusion in this volume.

The Tavistock Lectures and The Symbolic Life are examples of oral material to whose transcription Jung had given his approval. The former work has become well known as Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice, under which title the present version was published in 1968.

Around 1960, the Editors conceived the idea of adding to Volume 15, The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature, some of the forewords that Jung had written for books by other persons, on the ground that these statements were an expression of the archetype of the spirit. Jung was invited to make the choice, and his list comprised fifteen forewords, to books by the following authors: Lily Abegg, John Custance, Linda Fierz-David, Michael Fordham, M. Esther Harding (two books), Aniela Jaff, Olga yon Koenig-Fachsenfeld, Rose Mehlich, Fanny Moser, John Weir Perry, Carl Ludwig Schleich, Gustav Schmaltz, Hans Schmid-Guisan, and Oscar A. H. Schmitz. Subsequently, as the plan for a comprehensive volume of miscellany took form, these forewords were retained in Volume 18.