Carl Gustav Jung was the most enigmatic and controversial disciple of Sigmund Freud. Primarily a scientist and a scholar, he is more renowned for introducing crucial questions ,about religion and the soul, to psychoanalysis, which Freud neglected.
This book brilliantly explains the theories that led to Jung to break away from Freud, and describes his own near-psychotic breakdown in midlife, a "night-sea voyage" from which he emerged with radical new insights into the nature of the unconscious mind. Step by step, the book demonstrates how Jung explored the psychology of religion, alchemy, astrology, the I Ching and other phenomena rejected by science, in his investigation of his patients' dreams, fantasies and psychic disturbances.
