Jungs unique and broadly influential approach to psychology has emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religion, and philosophy. He was an active member of the vienna psychoanalytic society formerly known as the wednesday psychological society. In psychology and religion, carl jung takes a medical psychology standpoint to discover the links between the human unconscious mind and the ways in which religious symbolism and the idea of religion are deciphered. Sticking strictly to his expertise, jung discusses religion as a psychological phenomenon, i. The scholarly presentation of the book by aziz, who spent many years preparing the work i found outstanding. Unlike much of jungs writing, theses lectures are very accessible and show the relationship between psychology and religion. Psychology and religion association of jungian analysts. His doctoral thesis on psychology and occult phenomenon was heavily influenced by his years of work at the zurich insane asylum. It resolves two issues which in jungs own writing and in the secondary sources had remained unclear. In the psychogenesis of mental disease, collected works 3. Jung may have been well disposed towards religion, and he may have provided a strategy for taking religious phenomena seriously in the face of the reductive claims of materialistic science, but because his model emphasized the.
Jungs work was influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, and religious studies. Psychology and religion psychology and religion is an authoritative survey of what we know about the psychology of religion. The jungian interpretation of religion, pioneered by carl jung and advanced by his followers, is an attempt to interpret religion in the light of jungian psychology. The concern of the present investigation has been to determine the religious implica tions of the psychology of carl gustav jung. If individuation is about the self archetype what has that got to do with god. Jung believes that the terror which human beings can. If it were updated, it would now include several times that number. Jungs psychology of religion was often criticized by theologians for being a form of psychological reductionism. Carl gustav jung and the psychology of religion springerlink. Jung had archetypes, that remained the same even while the religions differed.
Carl jung and islamoriginal version dreaming in symbols. Hussite wars, war, jung, carl jung, jungian, freud, sigmund freud, lutheranism. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion. Jung, was a swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung and religion there is a sense in which jung has written little in the formal field designated as the psychology of religion, but in practically everything he has written there appear implications for religion 17. Part of the other psychology commons, and the other religion commons. Jung psychology and religion book overview youtube. This is the most stimulating writing on carl jung i have read for some time. Psychology of religion a commentary on the classic texts. Carl gustav jung psychology and religionbook fi org.
The only attempt to trace the development of jungs religious thought through his writings was undertaken by a belgian jesuit and professor of theology at the louvain, raymond hostie 182. It lacks consensus regarding a definition of religion, and, most often, it is conducted without a theoretical framework. I hope that you enjoyed this summary of jung on religion and found it helpful for your studies. Pdf carl gustav jung psychology and religionbook fi org.
Follow this link for a background on carl gustav jung. These are the terry lectures from yale university in 1937, given in english. Jung may have stopped short in his writings on psychology, but he didnt stop short in his life. Carl gustav jung, author of some of the most provocative hypotheses in modern psychology, describes what he regards as an authentic religious function in the unconscious mind. When the international psychoanalytical association formed in 1910 jung became president at the request of freud. Carl jung was a spiritual thinker who offered western culture a way back to religion that places no shame on being human. Pravin thevathasan mrcpsych is an expose of the errors of jungian psychology especially with regard to its interpretation of christianity.
The psyche is the object of psychology, and fatally enough also its subject. This book contains the terry lectures as delivered by dr. Jung, psychological types or the psychology of individuation, translate by h. In this article, i will examine the status and value of carl jung s theories of archetypal psychology, especially their relation to ultimate issues in literature and in religious studies. Jungs contribution to psychology as emaciated due to a mystical libido and an impossible collective unconscious. Christian christ is important i his own right and jung fails to explain this extra dimension of region. West and east a library password is required to access fulltext content. The religious implications of jungs psychology semantic scholar. West and east calls for comment, since no single volume can cover jung s publications on a subject that takes so prominent a place in all his later works. Jung believed that the deepest urge within every living creature was to fulfil itself.
Synopsis of jungs psychology and religion essay example. Carl jung was an early supporter of freud because of their shared interest in the unconscious. Religion and individuation contributed by frieda fordham the study of the archetypes of the collective unconscious, has led jung to some interesting conclusions, one of the most important of which is that man possesses what he describes as. Contemporary empirical research in the psychology of religion has two major deficiencies. Famed psychologist carl jung delivered a short series of lectures at yale in 1937 concerning the relationship between psychology and religion. Psychology and religion, 1214, or, if shared by enough people.
Carl jung s archetypal psychology, literature, and ultimate meaning david j. Pdf carl gustav jung psychology and religionbook fi. It is very clear and readable, and reflects michael argyles. Carl gustav jung, author of some of the most provocative hypotheses in modern psychology, describes what he regards as an authentic religious function in. We are not sinful, shameful human creatures who have to somehow earn spirituality.
Jungs shorter works on religion and psychology are collected in this volume. Spiritual teacher, codependency therapist and author, robert burney, agrees with jung. Carl jung and the spiritual problem of the modern individual. In two essays on analytical psychology, collected works 7. His chronological outline of jungs career into three periods of increasing openness to religion quickly, if rather unquestioningly. Jung said atheism is a religion but is he just twisting words to make his theory unfalsifiable. At the lower level of these writings, jung is misrepresented as having tried to found a personal pseudoreligion richard noll, the jung cult, 1994. Several, although of comparative brevity, are of major significance and take their place with two fulllength works psy chology and alchemy and aion in. Unlike sigmund freud and his followers, jungians tend to treat religious beliefs and behaviors in a positive light, while offering psychological referents to traditional religious. To a full understanding of jung s thesis on religion a thorough grasp of his theory of the.
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