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Jung: A Biography Paperback – November 9, 2004

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This authoritative biography reveals the untold truth about Jung's secret work for the Allies during World War II, his controversial affair with one of his patients, and the contents of his private papers, as well as never before published photos.
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"A remarkable biography of a remarkable French woman--the high priestess of existentialism and modern feminism. Deirdre Bair writes with an intimacy and vividness unique in modern American biography."

"Deirdre Bair's portrait of Simone de Beauvoir is at once intimate and authoritative, entertainingly readable and densely researched. She has amassed a vast amount of information without being tyrannized by it."

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (November 9, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 928 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316159387
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316159388
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.98 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.4 x 9.25 inches
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Alexandra
5.0 out of 5 stars this is a painful read. Yet not to know this content is ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2016
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For adherents of C.G. Jung, this is a painful read. Yet not to know this content is to be woefully uninformed about a person whose psychology has made such a huge impact in the world. Here we encounter Jung's true surroundings, his friends, his family, his colleagues, his trials, how he was regarded in Zurich, England, America and Germany/Austria, his interpersonal problems--not just with Freud but with other very important people in his life. Bair has done a tour de force amount of research. She makes no statements that are not corroborated by a serious footnote. There is a reason why she was trusted by the Jung family. She is fair, careful, objective and never leads the reader.
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5.0 out of 5 stars best biography
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I have consulted all the biographies of Carl Jung available in Spanish, and some of the existing in English, and this one is undoubtedly the best. I think it deserves 5 stars.
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(Spanish):Desde fines del siglo XIX el psicoanálisis ha venido a enriquecer el acervo de la psicología y de la psiquiatría con una serie de intuiciones geniales, en particular las referentes a los mecanismos de defensa del "yo". No obstante, su pretendido descubrimiento de las estructuras de la personalidad ha derivado en la creación de las más dispares teorías, útiles tan sólo en cuanto construcciones de modelos operacionales aptos para dibujar la intangible versatilidad psíquica, pero muy discutibles como inamovibles "verdades" científicas. Entre esos modelos especulativos el psicoanálisis freudiano ha resultado fructífero para operar sobre las neurosis en sociedades occidentales sexualmente reprimidas y existencialmente desorientadas como pudo serlo la multicultural Viena del imperio austríaco. El modelo junguiano de la psicología analítica, mucho más esotérico y simbólico, resulta en cambio más apto para operar sobre estructuras sociales predominantemente introspectivas y místicas, o para complementar ciencias como la antropología, la filología, y la historia de las culturas. A estos dos primigenios modelos -el freudiano y el junguiano- se fueron agregando otros en apreciable variedad, llegando hasta los modernos conductivo-conductuales que predominan actualmente en los ambientes más estrechamente ligados a la psiquiatría convencional. Lamentablemente, durante varias décadas aquellas dos escuelas psicoanalíticas primordiales sostuvieron una encarnizada batalla por el predominio ideológico. Batalla académica sembrada de golpes bajos, particularmente asestados por la "ortodoxia" freudiana a sus contrincantes junguianos. Enfrentamiento que, observado con el escepticismo de la distancia, encuentra su principal explicación en una cuestión absolutamente pedestre: la competencia por un mismo "mercado" psicoanalizable. Mercado que ha sido particularmente importante en los EE.UU. -el país más rico del mundo, lo que lo vuelve explicable-, y, paradojalmente también en el Río de la Plata, al sur de las Américas, donde la densidad de psicoanalistas en relación con la población de clases media y alta resulta inusitada y asombrosamente elevada.
Es precisamente aquí, en el alejado Río de la Plata, donde se hace sentir más la carencia de aportes biográficos serios y completos sobre la figura de Carl Jung, y donde el gastado y nada fundamentado remoquete de filonazismo sirve estereotipadamente para denostar su figura y sus aporte a las ciencias humanísticas. El libro de Deirdre Bair, a mi juicio, es muy esclarecedor sobre estos remanidos aspectos controversiales, y seguramente conocerá pronto una versión española que -espero- resulte fidedigna y adecuada en su traducción. Junto con la ya hace tiempo existente biografía debida a Gerhard Wehr, esta nueva biografía de Jung constituirá una buena base de referencia sobre la figura del maestro de Bollingen, volviendo las cosas a su verdadera dimensión, y recolocando su figura en el contexto de la historia científica, y no de la controversia ideológica donde se lo quiso colocar equívocamente.
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Alan H. Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars This is the most thoroughly research volume that I have ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2018
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This is the most thoroughly research volume that I have read on Jung. The book is well written and conveys a sense of intimate understanding of individuals and their interactions. One could not ask for a more complete biography.
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BlueDog
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book except for a couple of points
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2021
A very thorough book. If you're looking for an in depth explanation of his ideas-look elsewhere. The end part where she goes into an in depth explanation of the conflicts about publishing is confusing, not interesting and unnecessary. I would hesitate to say if analysis has any "purpose". But if part of the purpose of it is to make you a better or more self-aware person, the behavior of many of the people surrounding Jung show that it is not always effective. The other thing that bothers me is that she has decided that Jung was not at all anti0semitic and then goes on to show us why. I was not convinced. he was a man of many contradictions and although he had Jewish friends and colleagues it is clear that he harbored anti-Semitic feelings
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Scott Jacobsen
5.0 out of 5 stars To Spawn..
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2014
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A significant read if one is to understand Jung. Jung was brave enough to consciously (unconsciously) portray his Shadow for critics, skeptics and initiates to reflect upon. Jung was full of contradictions , some obvious hypocrisies ; yet it is the beauty of this paradox that gives veracity to his body of work. He practiced what he preached... He gave to us the notion that to be in this human experience is to live with, through and among the contradictions, hypocrisies and swim with these against the tide of the conscious collective to individuate. Not all salmon survive to spawn. Jung did !
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M.Stephen
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating & Well Written
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2004
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This book is clearly the definitive biography of Carl Jung. Ms. Bair has carefully researched the details of Jung's life and provides the reader with an unvarished but quite balanced view of this profoundly important psychologist. The book focuses on Jung's life and the people who were important to him and not on his theoretical and practical contributions to Psychology. As a scholar in the field I learned much and am grateful to the author for her work.
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Starbird
5.0 out of 5 stars I learned a lot
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2016
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He was a very complex man, and the author did a good job of shedding more light on him.
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Gerard P_Mtl CA
5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic jjob by Deirdre Bair
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a23
5.0 out of 5 stars Fair picture of the man
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 13, 2011
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Jung is a challenging subject to write about - an individual that splits public and professional opinion and no shortage of acolytes or assassins wanting to whet their own particular angles, plus ongoing and fierce protection of many of his notebooks/archives etc by his family. I've read several other biographies, including Jung's Memories, Dreams, Recollections and found this work immensely engaging and thorough. I felt I was presented with a vivd picture of Jung with good explanations of the origins and development of his key ideas, the challenges he encountered (or created) with his professional peers and his personal life. It's not always an attractive picture that emerges, but it does seem fair and balanced. I'd say this is probably the one book you should read if you have a thirst for knowledge about the man (i'd recommend Anthony Stevens "On Jung" if it's his professional theories that interest you)
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Erkki-Pekka Kinnunen
5.0 out of 5 stars Magnum opus
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2014
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An excellent biography, very accurately documented, yet enjoyable to read - great! A rare reading enjoyment, an opus written with expertise and great style
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Fayrestowe
4.0 out of 5 stars If you identify as a fan of Jung you may find this book disconcerting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2023
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I have been a fan of Jungian thought for several decades, having had the benefit of therapy with a Jungian therapist... and then I read this book. It is hard to be a fan for Jung after reading this detailed account of his life and it does seem to raise serious questions about Jungian thought. I suppose transference has been at work here - we have been projecting what works for us onto Jung, giving him credit. Maybe deservedly, maybe not.
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Sam the Man
2.0 out of 5 stars Print on demand!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 9, 2015
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This is a fine book as regards the actual text; however I want to warn anyone who might order the paperback new from Amazon that what they are selling here is nothing but a crappy print-on-demand copy; the cover and pages are accordingly poorly produced - for instance the photo section contains lines from the computer printer, etc.
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