![]() Even among professional Jungian psychologists and analysts, very few will have probably read Jung’s vast work in its entirety his amazing overall contribution to the field of human psychology led the British author and poet Kathleen Raine to say, “Jung was probably the most significant original thinker of the century”. In other words, throughout his long and productive career Jung tirelessly examined the universe of the human mind from its smallest details to its overall meaning. ![]() As a scientist and a man of genius, the psychiatrist Jung left no stone unturned in his creative exploration of the human psyche, engaging in studies which ranged from the purely empirical – such as his famous work on the word association tests which led to the invention of the lie detector test – to work which is speculative and almost metaphysical, such as Answer to Job (1952). Jung’s oeuvre is simply vast, both in quantity (his collected works, minus the new works being released, run to 20 volumes) and in scope. ![]() When Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961) passed away aged 86, he left a prolific legacy of profound psychological writings which even in recent years have been gradually released to the public, such as the recent publications of his Red Book (2009) and the Black Books (2020). “The hallmarks of spirit are, firstly, the principle of spontaneous movement and activity secondly, the spontaneous capacity to produce images independently of sense perception and thirdly, the autonomous and sovereign manipulation of these images.” (pp.
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