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A life of Jung, Ronald Hayman

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-509) and index

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A life of Jung

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Ronald Hayman

This biography explores the complex character of one of the world's most influential psychoanalysts. Having gained access to a substantial amount of previously unpublished material, Ronald Hayman offers a rare insight into how Jung's revolutionary ideas grew out of his own extraordinary experiences. With notable objectivity, Hayman investigates the most crucial questions surrounding this enigmatic figure. What actually went on during Jung's sessions with patients? Was his mother insane? Was he a borderline case? What were the consequences of a homosexual episode in his boyhood? Was he pro-Nazi or anti-Semitic? Why did he fail to sustain any of his friendships with men? Did he sometimes mean "God" when he said the "Unconscious"? Why was he so secretive?

pt. 1. Glimpses of God -- Bursting out -- A cannibal Jesus -- Such a wicked thought -- The geology of the person -- Magnetic passes -- Lunatic asylum -- Wearing a cardboard collar -- Moon people -- pt. 2. Crown prince -- Lusty stallion -- Ardent Freudian -- Lakeside house -- our psyuchoanalytical flag -- Sleepless nights -- Enough women -- Giving his throne away -- pt. 3. Alarums -- Creative illness -- The woman inside me -- Preaching to the dead -- The importance of going away -- pt. 4. Excursions -- Cooking in the rain -- There is greatness in you -- Tangible silence -- The magic wand -- The purity of divine dirt -- Hitler is a medicine man -- This Jewish gospel -- The thieves were redeemers -- The incompetent mind of the masses -- pt. 5. The grail and the bomb -- The German psychosis -- Trinity + devil = quaternity -- What happens after death -- Call me C.G. -- Jesus and Satan are brothers -- She was a queen -- Mythification and auntification -- When you come to the other side