Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 2: Experimental Researches

by C.G. Jung

Book Overview

The authoritative edition of Jung's important early writings on his word-association experiments

After joining the staff of the Burgh lzli Mental Hospital in 1900, Jung developed and applied word-association tests for studying normal and abnormal psychology. Between 1904 and 1907, he published nine studies on these experiments. Experimental Researches features these studies, as well as two lectures on the association method...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691259364
• ISBN13: 9780691259369
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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JUNG'S "STUDIES IN WORD ASSOCIATION," AND RELATED ARTICLES/LECTURES

Jung published nine articles (between 1904-1907) on his word association experiments at a mental hospital, which are collected in this volume, as well as two lectures and three other articles. Here are some representative quotations from the book: "Finally, it may be permissible to point out once more that an overwhelming number of the complexes we have discovered in our subjects are erotic. In view of the great part played by love and sexuality in human life, this is not surprising." "The art of the method, which is never easy to use, lies in distinguishing the reactions connected with a complex from the irrelevant ones. I have therefore compiled a series of so-called 'complex characteristics.' In principle the complex-characteristics are the same for normal and pathological associations. Furthermore, to lay bare the complex is of far-reaching significance in applying our experiments to the field of criminal psychology." "Anyone inexperienced in the field of pathological association psychology will probably shake his head at the above suppositions; he will perhaps see in them not just hypotheses but sheer phantasms. The judgment on them will perhaps be the same as on Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams: The Complete and Definitive Text." "One must get rid of the idea that people with a good education and some insight can always recognize and admit their own complexes. Every human mind contains much that is not admitted..."