The Jung Cult: Origins Of A Charismatic Movement

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Winner of the 1994 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Psychology Association of American Publishers The classic path-breaking contextual history of the development of C.G. Jungs thought and Nietzschean religious movement. The international sensation that was published in Portuguese (Brazil) Swedish Danish Japanese Chinese and Italian translations. " Richard Noll gives us the historical Jung: his goal is neither to idealize nor denigrate Jung but to recover the diverse cultural and intellectual contexts out of which Jungs ideas emerged and to highlight the complex personal professional and ideological functions of the early Jung movement. Exceptionally almost universally well-read in the field of post-Enlightenment German-languate culture and thought Noll is ideally suited to this task. . . . it is impossible henceforth to claim that Jung scholarship is in any way behind Freud Studies." historian Mark S. Micale Yale University "Richard Nolls careful well-researched and well-reasoned study of the cultural context of Jungs psychology presents the centrality of notions of race and power extrapolated from the reception of Nietzsches thought at the turn of the century. . . A brilliant must-read for any scholar seriously interested in the history of psychoanalysis/" historian Sander L. Gilman Cornell University ". . . an important study . . . " Frederick Crews The New York Review of Books "This is by far the best book written on Jung to date . . . . Nolls presentation of the volkisch idelogy is excellent and deserves to be read by even those who have little or no interest in Jungs thinking." Martin Kusch British Journal for the History of Science