Jung

1938 · réf. 194048 — New Haven: Yale University Press; Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press London 1938. Jung on the religious impulse First edition of Jung's three essays delivered for the Terry Lectures in 1937 among his most extensive discussions of the religious function in individual experience. This copy includes the loosely inserted prospectus issued alongside the book by Yale University Press. By the late 1930s Jung's favourable comments on the Nazi regime and its conscious promotion of his psychology over the "Jewish" Freudian rival had damaged his reputation in the English-speaking world. He therefore took advantage of the invitation to deliver the Terry Lectures to make several disparaging references to Nazi ideology while attempting to placate those suspicious of his views on Jews by outlining an essentially positive analysis of the religious impulse. Jung wrote and delivered these essays in English in the form published here. They were subsequently translated into German by Toni Wolff and Felicia Froboese and published in German by Rascher in 1940. Octavo. Publisher's device to title page. Original black cloth spine lettered and with publisher's device in gilt. With dust jacket. Loosely inserted list of manuscript notes and one pencil annotation on page 1. Bookseller's ticket of John M. Watkins of Cecil Court to front free endpaper and small contemporary sticker to rear panel of jacket. Light bumping and rubbing infrequent minor browning and foxing to otherwise clean contents; slight chipping toning and damp staining to unclipped jacket marginal loss to head of spine panel and short closed tear to upper margin of front panel: a very good copy in like jacket. Ress 1938a English - p.74. hardcover