The Essential Jung: Selected and Introduced by Anthony Storr (New in Paperback), Jung C. G.

In this compact volume, British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Storr has selected extracts from Jungs writings that pinpoint his many original contributions and relate the development of his thought to his biography. Storrs explanatory notes and introduction show the progress and coherence of Jungs ideas. These notes link the extracts, and with Dr. Storrs introduction, they show the progress and coherence of Jungs ideas, including such concepts as the collective unconscious, the archetypes, introversion and extroversion, individuation, and Jungs view of integration as the goal of the development of the personality.Jung maintained that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves and that our most pressing task is to deflect our gaze away from the external world and toward the study of our own nature. In a world torn by conflict and threatened by annihilation, his message has an urgent relevance for every thoughtful person.