Complexes and the Unconscious

Favorite disciple of Freud for a time and later founder of the rival psychoanalytic school to the Viennese, C. G. Jung (1875-1961) was interested not only in clinical research and therapeutic practice, but also in the most varied fields of knowledge that could shed light on the human soul, from philosophy to anthropology and mythology. A classic of modern thought, "Complexes and the Unconscious" is the best exposition of the ideas and methods of the great Swiss humanist, covering his technique of dream analysis, archetypes -innate mental structures, analogous on the psychic plane to biological instincts and the millennial inheritance of the collective unconscious-, projection -through which man imprints the traits of his own life on external objects- and, finally, complexes, unforeseen heralds of the unconscious depths that behave in conscious space as strange and disturbing elements.