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    Author: Ann Casement

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    This highly readable volume aims to deepen the understanding of Jungian ideas for readers already familiar with Jung’s work as well as to introduce these ideas to readers new to his approach. Ann Casement brings a personalised tone as  a long-standing, highly experienced Jungian psychoanalyst. The book is not a biography, although aspects of Jung’s humanity inevitably shine through in his highly individual approach to psyche and the first chapter offers a concise account of his life.

    Jung was an exceptionally complex, brilliant, and prescient thinker and this excellent introduction covers much of his extensive oeuvre that was several decades in the making.

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    Ann Casement

    Series

    Introductions

    ISBN

    9781912691258

    Format

    Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

    Page Extent

    284

    Publication Date

    April 2021

    Subject Areas

    Jung & Analytical Psychology, Psychoanalysis

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    This book is an introduction to the ideas of the Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst, C. G. Jung. The first chapter describes his early home life whilst subsequent chapters are devoted to his work in various sectors. This started in psychiatry at Burghölzli Hospital in Zürich, where Eugen Bleuler was the Director, a significant figure in Jung’s life for many years. The book goes on to describe at some length the professional relationship between Freud and Jung, and the disastrous impact of their subsequent acrimonious split in 1913 on themselves but, more importantly, on the profession of psychoanalysis itself, both at that time and subsequently.

    Several chapters elaborate Jung’s main concepts, including an extensive investigation of his all-important work on psychological alchemy, which includes 10 black and white illustrations from the alchemical text The Rosarium Philosophorum and 10 black and white ox-herding pictures of Kuo-an from the twelfth-century Buddhist tradition. The rest of the book depicts some of the significant women and men who contributed to analytical psychology, which is the term Jung chose to designate his psychoanalytic discipline. This is used interchangeably with the term psychoanalysis as many Jungians designate themselves psychoanalysts, including the author, as a New York State licensed psychoanalyst. This is also an account of some of the scientific, philosophical, and psychological influences on Jung’s thinking.

    The book concludes with an entry on China, where the author has spent the last few years analysing, lecturing, supervising, and teaching analytical psychology to Chinese psychotherapists, counsellors, and students in Beijing and Shanghai.

    This comprehensive work is essential reading for all those with an interest in C. G. Jung and his work.

    About the author

    About the author

    Ann Casement, LP (1938–2025), was an honorary professor at the Oriental Academy for Analytical Psychology; senior member of the British Jungian Analytic Association; associate member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (New York); New York State licensed psychoanalyst; member of the British Psychoanalytic Council; member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (New York); member of the British Psychological Society; founder member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Association; and patron of the Freud Museum in London. She worked for several years in psychiatry from the late 1970s; chaired the UK Council for Psychotherapy (1997–2001); served on the Executive Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (2001–2007), and the IAAP Ethics Committee (2007–2016), becoming its chair in 2010. For two years from 1999 she conducted research working with Lord Alderdice and other stakeholders in the profession on a Private Member’s Bill in the House of Lords on the statutory regulation of the psychotherapy/psychoanalytic profession. From 2015 until her death in 2025, she taught and lectured in China, at the initial invitation of Professor Heyong Shen.

    She lectured and taught in many countries around the world, including the UK, China, Japan, Russia, USA, Canada, Israel, Lithuania, Switzerland, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, and in several countries in Europe. She contributed to The Economist, and to psychoanalytic journals worldwide, being on the editorial board of some. She served on the Gradiva Awards Committee (New York) in 2013; gave the Fay Lecture in Texas in 2019; was a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute; a fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine; and was a member of the Council of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She produced many articles, reviews, and several chapters for books. Her published books are: Post-Jungians Today (Routledge, 1998), Carl Gustav Jung (Sage, 2001), Who Owns Psychoanalysis? (Karnac, 2004) nominated for the 2005 Gradiva Award, The Idea of the Numinous (Routledge, 2006) with David Tacey, Who Owns Jung? (Karnac, 2007), Thresholds and Pathways Between Jung and Lacan (Routledge, 2021), Jung: An Introduction (Phoenix, 2021), and Integrating Shadow: Authentic Being in the World (Karnac, 2025.)

    Contents

    Contents

     

    Acknowledgements
    About the author
    Preface

    CHAPTER ONE
    Early life

    CHAPTER TWO
    Psychiatry

    CHAPTER THREE
    Freud

    CHAPTER FOUR
    Archetypes and the collective unconscious

    CHAPTER FIVE
    Shadow and persona

    CHAPTER SIX
    Anima/animus

    CHAPTER SEVEN
    Puer/puella vs narcissism

    CHAPTER EIGHT
    Self

    CHAPTER NINE
    Numinous

    CHAPTER TEN
    Individuation

    CHAPTER ELEVEN
    A critical appraisal of C. G. Jung’s Psychological Alchemy

    CHAPTER TWELVE
    The notion of transformation in Jung and Bion

    CHAPTER THIRTEEN
    Jung’s transmutation: Siegried to Parsifal

    CHAPTER FOURTEEN
    Emma Jung’s Perceval

    CHAPTER FIFTEEN
    Eminent women in analytical psychology

    CHAPTER SIXTEEN
    Major original figures in analytical psychology

    CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
    Distinguished figures in the contemporary Jungian world

    CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
    Distinguished figures in the contemporary Jungian world (continued)

    CHAPTER NINETEEN
    Philosophical, psychological, and scientific influences on Jung’s thinking

    CHAPTER TWENTY
    Orient

    Conclusion
    References
    Index

    4 reviews for Jung: An Introduction

    1. Professor Mark Solms, Research Chair, International Psychoanalytical Association – 07/05/2021

      This is a wonderful “introduction” to Jung, for those who want to be introduced substantially, reminiscent of Richard Wollheim’s masterly “introduction” to Freud, better than anything else of its kind I have read.

    2. Paul Bishop, William Jacks Chair, University of Glasgow – 07/05/2021

      Ann Casement reveals the links between the clinical and cultural aspects of Jungian psychology in this compelling, insightful, and persuasive study. Its many strengths include the way it speaks to analysts and non-analysts alike, how it brings out the range of applications of analytical psychology, and details the different approaches taken towards it. Essential – and enjoyable – reading for analysts and academics alike.

    3. Damien Spendel, Paradigm Explorer (2021/22) – 04/01/2022

      ‘strongly recommended for a well-struck balance between professional biography, technical exposé and critical contextualisation.’

    4. Robert Tyminski, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, ‘Journal of Analytical Psychology’, 2022, 67(1) – 06/12/2022

      ‘Casement brings to this endeavour her significant international work as well as her impressive background of 55 years in our field. […] This book, I believe, would be well received in introductory courses to analytical psychology; it also serves as a complementary work when reading about Jung, his life, and possibly even ‘The Red Book’. […] many will find it an asset in their learning and understanding of analytical psychology. I could see it being useful as part of the reading in undergraduate courses that explore depth psychology, as well as in graduate‐level training in social work, counselling, clinical psychology, and psychiatry.’

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