In the autumn of 1912, C. G. Jung, then president of the International
Psychoanalytic Association, set out his critique and reformulation of
the theory of psychoanalysis in a series of lectures in New York, ideas
that were to prove unacceptable to Freud, thus creating a schism in the
Freudian school. Jung challenged Freud's understandings of sexuality,
the origins of neuroses, dream interpretation, and the unconscious, and
Jung also became the first to argue that every analyst should themselves
be analyzed. Seen in the light of the subsequent reception and
development of psychoanalysis, Jung's critiques appear to be strikingly
prescient, while also laying the basis for his own school of analytical
psychology.
This volume of Jung's lectures includes an introduction by Sonu
Shamdasani, Philemon Professor of Jung History at University College
London, and editor of Jung's Red Book.