A life of Jung / Ronald Hayman.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-509) and index.

p.1. Glimpses of God -- Bursting out -- A cannibal Jesus -- Such a wicked thought -- The geology of the person -- Magnetic passes -- Lunatic asylum -- Wearing a cardboard collar -- Moon people -- p.2. Crown prince -- Lusty stallion -- Ardent freudian -- Lakeside house -- Our psychoanalytical flag -- Sleepless nights -- Enough women -- Giving his throne away -- p.3. Alarums -- Creative illnes -- The woman inside me -- Preaching to the dead -- The importance of going astray -- p.4. Excursions -- Cooking in the rain -- There is greatness in you -- Tangible silence -- Dark-faced men -- Negotiating with heaven -- His magic wand -- The purity of divine dirt -- Hitler is a medicine man -- This jewish gospel -- The thieves were redeemers -- The incompetent mind of the masses -- p.5. The grail and the bomb -- The german psychosis -- Trinity + devil = quaternity -- What happens after death -- Call me C. G. -- Jesus and Satan are brothers -- She was a queen -- Mythification and auntification -- When you come to the other side.

Carl Jung was one of the world's most influential psychoanalysts. With the exceptin of Freud, who chose his as the first president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, no psychologist has achieved more. Previous biographers have either made Jung an idol or condemned him for his failings. The "rounded, provocative, and revealing portrait of an extraordinary man and his extraordinary influential ideas" (Washington Pos Book World) neither ignores Jung's faults nor exaggerates them in investigating the most crucial paradoxes of this enigmatic figure. "[C]aptur[ing]... the extraordinary charism of his subject" (Newsday), Ronald Hayman's impeccably researched work is "all the more effective for its detached tone that perfectly puts in proportion Jung's cruel, brilliant and crazy schemes" (The [London] Times). "Likely to become the standard biography of the revolutionary psychoanalyst" (Kirkus Reviews, atreed review), A life of Jung offers a rare insight into how Jung's revolutionary ideas grew out of his own extraordinary experiences.