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Mythology of the Soul: A Research into the Unconscious from Schizophrenic Dreams and Drawings book cover

1st Edition

Mythology of the Soul A Research into the Unconscious from Schizophrenic Dreams and Drawings

By H.G. Baynes Copyright 1940
1004 Pages
by Routledge

1004 Pages
by Routledge

1004 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1940, this classic study of two schizophrenic case-histories further opened up the seemingly intractable problem of this condition; a task preceded by Jung’s own Psychology of Dementia Praecox . It was Baynes’s grasp of the meaning of the symbol coupled with his wide scholarship that enable him to explore the case-histories in such remarkable and fruitful depth, thus... Read more

Foreword.  Introduction.  Part 1  1. Psychiatric Antecedents: Development of the Psychological Conception of Mental Disorders  2. History of Subject and Dream I  3. Analysis of Dream II  4. Content of Drawing I: Statement of the Problem  5. The Infantile Psyche  6. The Cultural Psyche  7. The Horrific Aspect of the Unconscious  8. The Maternal Aspect of the Unconscious  9. The Heroic Combat  10. The Assimilation of the Dragon’s Virtue  11. The Phase of Yin: Birth of the Life-Giving Symbols  12. Restoration  13. The Symbol as Ruler and Transformation of Instinct  Part 2  1. The Introverted Subject  2. Distortion  3. Orientation  4. Recognition of the Split  5. Solution or Dissolution: The Problem of Psychic Continuity  6. Transformation from Animal to Tree  7. The Phase of Yin  8. Solution of the Complex: Birth of the Living Symbol  9. The Shadow Casting the Reality  10. The Birth of the God  11. Christian versus Pagan.  Conclusion.  Index.

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H.G. Baynes

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