C.G. Jung and the Humanities

By Karin Barnaby

Subjects: religion, Jung, c. g. (carl gustav), 1875-1961, creativity, psychology, hermeneutics, cultural studies, critical theory, humanities, gender, popular culture

Description: This timely volume is the first comprehensive attempt to assess Jung's presence and to demonstrate his far-reaching cultural impact in twentieth-century art and intellectual life. The essays reveal dimensions of his work that extend far beyond psychoanalytical theory. Jung, as seen in this volume, addresses a wide range of contemporary issues related to creativity, gender, religion, popular culture, and hermeneutics. The volume shows his hermeneutics to be a much more subtle and sophisticated methodology than previously allowed by his critics. This methodology appears, in fact, to have anticipated significant aspects of contemporary critical principles and practice. The contributors to the volume were among the participants in a major international conference sponsored by Hofstra University and the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, held in 1986 at Hofstra University. They include Thomas Belmonte, Robert Bly, Joseph Campbell, Edward S. Casey, Stanley Diamond, Jean Erdman, Leslie Fiedler, James Hillman, Paul Kugler, Ibram Lassaw, Neil Levine, David L. Miller, Lucio Pozzi, Gilles Quispel, Robert Richenburg, Carol Schreier Rupprecht, Andrew Samuels, Harold Schechter, and June Singer.