For a mythical creature to be considered part of the collective unconscious it must be connected to an instinct that has survival value, or did have during human evolution. Jung’s archetypes rarely have that value.

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 18: The Symbolic Life". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-20. The series includes 20 volumes, one of them published in two parts; detailed chapter-by-chapter abstracts of each volume are available online. [6] Volume 1 – Psychiatric Studies (1957) Volume 2 – Experimental Researches (1973) Volume 3 – Psychogenesis of Mental Disease (1960) Volume 4 – Freud & Psychoanalysis (1961) Volume 5 – Symbols of Transformation (1967; a revision of Psychology of the Unconscious, 1912) Volume 6 – Psychological Types (1971) Volume 7 – Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1967) Volume 8 – Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche (1969) Volume 9 (Part 1) – Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1969) Volume 9 (Part 2) – Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (1969) Volume 10 – Civilization in Transition (1970) Volume 11 – Psychology and Religion: West and East (1970) Volume 12 – Psychology and Alchemy (1968) Volume 13 – Alchemical Studies (1968) Volume 14 – Mysterium Coniunctionis (1970) Volume 15 – Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature (1966) Volume 16 – Practice of Psychotherapy (1966) Volume 17 – Development of Personality (1954) Volume 18 – The Symbolic Life (1977) Volume 19 – General Bibliography (Revised Edition) (1990) Volume 20 – General Index (1979) Additional content [ edit ] A better explanation of Jung’s theories on the collective unconscious can be found in his book ”The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.”Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 15: Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-20. Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 19: General Bibliography (Revised Edition)". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-21. The book contains material on directed thinking vs. associative thinking (dreaming), the Hieros gamos, and extensive analysis of the fantasies of a Miss Frank Miller, including the symbols of the hero, mother, and sacrifice. [16] Editions [ edit ] The particular element of the dragonfly attributes to overwhelming change that is able to take place one step at a time. Dragonflies also represent light and progress. They also symbolize satisfaction, flexibility, and a connection with nature. Freud & Psychoanalysis, volume 4 in The Collected Works, contains most of Jung's published writings on Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis from 1906-1916, with two papers from later years. The former period extends from the time of enthusiastic collaboration between Jung and Freud, through that when Jung's growing appreciation of religious experience and his criticism of Freud's emphasis on psychopathology led to their final break. [13] Subjects covered include Freud's theory of hysteria, the analysis of dreams, the theory of psychoanalysis, and more. [14]

Jung claims to find much archetypal imagery in the poetry of an obscure poet he names “Miss Miller.” If his concepts had more validity we would expect to find archetypical imagery in popular literature written from the oral tradition, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer, and the East Indian epics the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Jung rarely mentions these. His archetypical images do not appear in them. Jung appears not to have read the Ramayana, and to be unaware of the Mahabharata.

The other explanation is that certain common symbols are rooted in the common biological inheritance of all human beings, who all share a common set of conditions and developmental crises, such as birth, dependence on caregivers, waxing and waning of individual powers, and a confrontation with the reality of death. What Jung has to convey is so truly original and so far ranging in its implications that I suspect this book will be a real challenge even to those most psychologically sophisticated. What he here presents in rich and documented detail can perhaps best be described as an anatomy of the objective psyche. Editions [ edit ] We have to embrace and adapt to change even if we don’t want to. Frogs make us understand that all change is, inevitably, for the better. Frogs are associated with the water element. They also imply purification, feminine energy, and the universe of feelings. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung ( German: Gesammelte Werke) is a book series containing the first collected edition, in English translation, of the major writings of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. I find Jung's thinking and writing to be of monumental importance, and this book in particular spells out the core theory persuasively and comprehensively in a way I haven't found in the numerous other books I've read by the author. These days Jung's theory is waning in popular interest, which is too bad, because his thought is groundbreaking and completely relevant, as much so today as when it was written.