Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 5: Symbols of TransformationHardcover, 21 September 1967

In 1912, at the age of thirty-seven, Jung published the original version of his work, "Transformation and Symbols of the Libido, " which marked his divulgence from the psychoanalytic school of Freud. It soon became his most widely known and influential work, and it is important in the background of "The Freud/Jung Letters." Because it represented a transitional state in the developement of his theory, Jung long wished to revise it, and in 1952 he published a completely rewritten edition, on which this transformation is based. In its author's words, it is an "extended commmentary on a practical analysis of the prodromal stages of schizophrenia.