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Deirdre Bair. Jung: A Biography, Boston: Little Brown, 2003.

Deirdre Bair, author of biographies on Ana'fs Nin and Simone de Beauvoir, offers in this book compelling and solidly researched insights into Carl Jung, a seminal figure in psychology who is responsible for many terms that are now considered common: the archetype, the collective unconscious, introvert and extravert, anima and animus, synchronicity, individuation, and even New Age spirituality. Jung was Sigmund Freud's "crown prince," selected by the father of psychoanalysis to become the first president of the International Psychoanalytic Association in 1910. In 1914, Jung jettisoned Freud's theory to found his own system of ...

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