In recent years the great Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung has emerged as the favourite philosopher, the hero and guru of the New Age, a source of 'alternative' modes of thought that have already fascinated generations and that now seem set to attract a whole new audience.
McLynn's JUNG is the first full-length biography of this enduring icon. It examines in depth the life and work of this one-time protege of Sigmund Freud, who later emerged from the shadow of his mentor after a famous quarrel which dogged him for much of his life.
With his theory of synchronicity and his interest in myth and oriental religion, in alchemy and astrology, he represents a direct antithesis to Freudian thought and remains supremely influential in our attitudes towards psychoanalysis and the unconscious.
