Jung Symbols of Transformation

1273 Pages·2016·25.87 MB·English

by  Michael, Fordham, Adler, Gerhard, Read, Herbert, Jung, Carl Gustav

BOLLINGEN SERIES XX
THE COLLECTED WORKS
OF
C. G. JUNG
VOLUME 5
EDITORS
† SIR HERBERT READ
MICHAEL FORDHAM, M.D., M.R.C.P.
GERHARD ADLER, PH.D.
WILLIAM MCGUIRE, executive editor
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The Ostian head of Mithras Roman
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SYMBOLS
OF
TRANSFORMATION
AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRELUDE TO A CASE OF
SCHIZOPHRENIA
C. G. JUNG
SECOND EDITION
TRANSLATED BY R. F. C. HULL
B O L L I N G E N S E R I E S X X
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COPYRIGHT © 1956 BY BOLLINGEN FOUNDATION
INC., NEW YORK, N. Y PUBLISHED BY PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY PRESS, PRINCETON, N. J.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Second edition, with corrections, 1967
Second printing, 1974
Third printing, 1976
First Princeton / Bollingen Paperback printing, 1976
THIS EDITION IS BEING PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED
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PRESS AND IN ENGLAND BY ROUTLEDGE AND
KEGAN PAUL, LTD. IN THE AMERICAN EDITION, ALL
THE VOLUMES COMPRISING THE COLLECTED
WORKS CONSTITUTE NUMBER XX IN BOLLINGEN
SERIES, SPONSORED BY BOLLINGEN FOUNDATION.
THE PRESENT VOLUME IS NUMBER 5 OF THE
COLLECTED WORKS, AND WAS THE FIFTH TO
APPEAR.
Translated from Symbole der Wandlung (4th edition,
rewritten, of Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido), published
by Rascher Verlag, Zurich, 1952.
ISBN 0-691-01815-4 (paperback edn.)
ISBN 0-691-09775-5 (hardcover edn.)
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EDITORIAL NOTE
As the author’s Foreword indicates, the volume from which
the present translation has been made is an extensive revision,
published in 1952, of Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido,
published in 1912.
* The reasons for this revision and its extent are explained by
Dr. Jung and need no further comment here.
The present translation differs in certain respects from the
revised Swiss edition. First of all, the number of illustrations
has been reduced. In the Swiss edition, these had been
inserted to amplify the text rather than to illustrate. It seemed
to the Editors that the illustrations sometimes had the
disadvantage of interrupting the text unduly, and after careful
consideration it was decided that only those having a direct
relevance to the text should be included. Among these, some
new photographs and substitutions have been used. Secondly,
an appendix containing the complete Miller fantasies has been
added. Since these were available only in a French text
published in 1906 in the Archives de psychologie, a
translation by Philip Mairet has been provided. The textual
quotations are also from this translation. Other differences
from the Swiss edition result from bringing the volume into
conformity with the general plan for the Collected Works. A
bibliography has been added, and accordingly the references
in the footnotes have been somewhat shortened.
In respect to the quotations from various languages, special
mention must be made of the work of Dr. A. Wasserstein and
Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz in checking and translating some
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of the Latin and Greek texts. The philological material has
been checked over by Dr. Leopold Stein.
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EDITORIAL NOTE TO THE
SECOND EDITION
For this edition, appearing ten years after the first,
bibliographical citations and entries have been revised in the
light of subsequent publications in the Collected Works and in
the Standard Edition of Freud’s works, some translations have
been substituted in quotations, and other essential corrections
have been made, but there have been no changes of substance
in the text.
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
During the preparation of this volume, the text of the original
English translation by Beatrice M. Hinkle, first published in
America in 1916 under the title Psychology of the
Unconscious, was freely consulted. Certain of the quotations
of poetry there rendered by Louis Untermeyer have been
taken over into the present edition, sometimes with slight
modifications. For some of the quotations from Faust, I am
indebted to Philip Wayne, both for extracts from his
published version of Part 1 and for passages from Part 2
specially translated for this volume. Quotations from Latin
and Greek sources are taken when possible from existing
translations, but mostly they are of a composite nature,
resulting from comparison of the existing translations with the
original texts and with the German versions used by the
author, who in some cases translated direct from the originals.
For the purpose of comparison, reference is sometimes made,
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in square brackets, to an existing translation although it has
not been quoted.
For the 1974 printing, the Author’s Note to the first
American/English edition has been added on p. xxx.
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