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Article: Falling from favour; Carl Gustav Jung.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2004
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TWO new books on Carl Gustav Jung emphasise very different aspects of the Swiss psychologist's eminently full life. In addition to chronicling--some would say over-chronicling--Jung's family life, letters and conversations, Deirdre Bair's biography investigates some of the more serious charges levelled during Jung's lifetime and since his death in 1961, namely that he was a womanising plagiarist and an anti-Semitic Nazi sympathiser. Sonu Shamdasani acknowledges these criticisms, but the main focus of his book is on the writings that most influenced Jung and on the impact he had on the human sciences through the 20th century.
In retrospect, Jung himself thought he ...
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