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JUNG A Biography

Bair, Deirdre
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This authoritative biography reveals the untold truth about Jung’s secret work for the Allies during World War II, his controversial affair with one of his patients, and the contents of his private papers, as well as never before published photos.Jung’s shade would be content with Bair’s biography, which in bulk and detail suggests that there is little more to say. Lucid and persuasive, the National Book Award-winning biographer of Beckett strikes a balance between damage control and deification, for Jung’s ambition, arrogance and lack of generosity tend now to obscure his originality as a thinker and his impact on theories about why we dream and how we think. While Bair provides perhaps more about almost every aspect of his youth, maturity, rivalries, renown and old age than we care to know, it takes an author’s note and two long endnotes to realize how much censorship the Jung heirs still insist upon. Bair was, for example, denied access to the diaries of Jung and his mother, which were deemed too private,” and to the thousand letters between Jung and his devoted (yet mistreated) wife. Even so

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AuthorBair, Deirdre
Number of pagespp.881
PublisherBack Bay Books / Little Brown and Co
Year Published2003
Book Condition

FINE

Binding Type

Softcover

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