The Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung
Alan C. Elms, Jung’s Lives, Hagiographies HAGIOGRAPHIES Among the early biographies were several written by devout Jungians who knew Jung personally and/or practiced Jungian psychotherapy. Each writer sought to achieve one or more of these related aims: to assert Jung’s genius and his outstanding virtues as a human being; to defend him from criticism and … Read more
The Psychologist as Biographer Homo sapiens is the biographical animal. Humans differ from other creatures not only in anticipating their group and individual future but in reviewing and recounting their personal past—and in being fascinated by the personal pasts of other humans. Even in cultures where formal biography has remained undeveloped, details of individual life … Read more
Henry Murray often said that all theory is autobiography. The Auntification of C. G. Jung HENRY MURRAY often said that all theory is autobiography. Andre Maurois observed that biography is sometimes disguised autobiography.1 I’d almost be willing to add a dictum of my own: “No psychobiography without autobiography.” It’s frustrating if not impossible to do … Read more