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Jung on Death and Immortality

Disciplines:
psychology
theology

Summary

An anthology of Jung's writings on death, dying, and the afterlife — collecting his scattered reflections on what analytical psychology implies about the nature of the soul and its fate after death.

Core Contribution

Jung's eschatology: the psyche's relationship to death as a central problem of individuation. The archetypes of death and rebirth. Jung's agnosticism about literal survival combined with his consistent claim that the psyche experiences itself as non-temporal — and that this has implications for how we think about death. Draws from Memories Dreams Reflections, letters, and lectures.

Historical Influences

C.G. Jung

Intellectual Lineage

Analytical Psychology Comparative Religion

Allied Works

Memories Dreams Reflections Answer to Job Psychology and Alchemy

Contemporaries & Peers

The Soul and Death

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

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