2nd Edition

Flying Saucers A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky

By C.G. Jung Copyright 1959
176 Pages
by Psychology Press

176 Pages
by Psychology Press

176 Pages
by Psychology Press

Written in the late 1950s at the height of popular fascination with UFO's, Flying Saucers is the great psychologist's brilliantly prescient meditation on the phenomenon that gripped the world. A self-confessed sceptic in such matters, Jung was nevertheless intrigued, not so much by their reality or unreality, but by their psychic aspect. He saw flying saucers as a modern myth in the making, to... Read more
Acknowledgements, List of Plates, List of Figures, Preface to the English Edition, Introductory, 1 UFOs as Rumours, 2 UFOs in Dreams, 3 UFOs in Modern Painting, 4 Previous History of the UFO Phenomenon, 5 UFOs Considered in a Non-psychological Light, 6 Epilogue and Supplement, Index

Biography

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). Founded the analytical school of psychology and developed a radical new theory of the unconscious.

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