Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, and Jung, Volume 1: The Development of the Personality Book

Preface and acknowledgements ix

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction 1

1 Biographical and intellectual affinities between Goethe and Jung 12

(Great) Grandfather Goethe? 13

Leonardo and the archetypal parents 15

Biographical affinities 19

Rejuvenation, rebirth... or Rome? 34

2 Jung's early reception of Goethe and Faust, 1880-1916 42

Methodological matters 47

Transformations and Symbols of the Libido 54

'The Mothers! the Mothers!' 63

'On Psychological Understanding' 70

'La Structure de l'inconscient' 77

3 Schiller and the problem of typology 81

The Goethe-Schiller correspondence 82

Wagner and Nietzsche, Freud and Jung 91

Jung's reception of Schiller 92

Context of Schiller's Aesthetic Letters and Jung's Psychological Types 95

Introversion and extraversion 102

Imagination 110

The superior and the inferior functions 116

4 Schiller and the problem of beauty 126

Beauty 127

The drives 130

The symbol 131

Aestheticism and aesthetism 139

The tripartite schemes in the Aesthetic Letters 143

Semblance (Schein) 146

Excursus: On Naive and Sentimental Poetry 149

5 Conclusion: the development of the personality 157

Individuation 161

Notes 168

Select bibliography of works cited in volume 1 210

Index 219