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  • Published: 25 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781802066081
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Light in the Darkness

Selected Writings



An essential collection of Jung’s visionary writings, introducing his groundbreaking thinking on unconsciousness, the self, and human culture.

As the founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung pioneered concepts of the collective unconscious, extraversion and introversion, and individuation – redefining the human psyche and the possibilities of the individual mind. Judith Harris’ career-spanning selection begins with Jung’s work on schizophrenia, where he started as a psychiatrist, and moves through Jung’s dream analyses, his exploration of myth and archetypes, his belief in the unconscious as a creative powerhouse, and his experiments in art and craftsmanship, ending with his late contemplations on spirituality and life after death. In all his writing, Jung invites his reader to strive toward greater consciousness – our light in the dark.

This book presents not only an extraordinary tour through one of the 20th Century’s most mercurial minds, but also offers ways of thinking about how the self operates in the world that remain radical today.

  • Published: 25 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781802066081
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

About the author

Carl Jung

Carl Jung (1875—1961) was a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, literature, and related fields.