Carl Gustav Jung - Hardcover

McLynn, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312154917 ISBN 13: 9780312154912

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1997

Synopsis

A biography of the famous psychologist examines Carl Jung's early career as an admirer of Freud, the bitter argument that made the men rivals, and the development of his highly influential theories

About this title

From the Publisher:

Critical Praise for Frank McLynn's Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography:

"Complex, controversial, and profoundly influential, Jung presents the biographer with Herculean tasks, and McLynn's performance is heroic." --Booklist (Starred Review)

"McLynn has written an admirably honest book that is both lively and objective and deserves a wide readership." --Los Angeles Times

"We are indebted to biographer Frank McLynn for pulling together [this] single, logically organized, and well-written volume." --San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

"This very solid, well-paced biography will help readers understand both why Jung was so intensely admired and hated." --Kirkus Reviews

"The best account of Jung yet published." --The Evening Standard

"[A] perfectly superb biography of Jung...McLynn's painfully accumulated evidence is handled scrupulously." --The Independent Weekend

"Meticulously researched and altogether remarkable." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Frank McLynn is a distinguished biographer who has taken on such varied and challenging subject matters as Robert Louis Stevenson, the European exploration of Africa in Hearts of Darkness, and Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England. He lives in England.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0312154917
• ISBN 13: 9780312154912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 623