Undiscovered Self With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

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Together for the first time in one paperback volume are two of Jung's major late works, in the version published in The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, as rendered by Jung's official translator. "The Undiscovered Self" (1957) integrates many of Jung's lifelong social and psychological concerns and addresses the uneasy relation between the individual and mass society. The survival of civilization, he maintains, depends on individual awareness of both the conscious and unconscious aspects of the human psyche. Jung's reflections on self-knowledge and the exploration of the unconscious carry over into his essay "Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams," completed shortly before his death in 1961. Describing dreams as communications from the unconscious-as expressions of aspects of the individual that have been neglected or unrealized-Jung explains how the symbols that occur in dreams compensate for repressed emotions and intuitions. This essay brings together Jung's fully evolved thoughts on the analysis of dreams and the healing of the rift between consciousness and the unconscious. William McGuire, executive editor of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung, is the author of Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past (Princeton). These paperback editions of C. G. Jung's writings are chosen from the Collected Works, translated by R.F.C. Hull and published in twenty-one volumes as Bollingen Series XX. The excerpts are selected and grouped thematically to introduce Jung's writings on issues and themes of contemporary interest.