Jung on Death and Immortality
Jung treated death not as a medical event but as the task the second half of life is organised around, in writing gathered here across five decades.
Jenny Yates gathers Jung’s writing on mortality across five decades, including the late essay “The Soul and Death”, into a single volume. Jung treats death not as a medical event but as a psychic task that the second half of life is organised around, and writes about it with unusual directness.
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Five years later, Jung developed these ideas in his most intellectually elegant essay, titled “Death and the Soul” and included in Jenny Yates’s altogether magnificent anthology Jung on Death and Immortality (public library).
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