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Readers leafing through the Manchester Guardian on 26 July 1955 might have been somewhat surprised to find a leader noting the eightieth birthday of Carl Gustav Jung. The editors of the paper saw the occasion as a fitting opportunity to consider the Swiss thinker’s intellectual legacy and continuing relevance: “to-day is not an occasion for paying lip-service to a celebrated thinker. It is a time to take note of his works, especially those which may help to get ourselves out of the fantastic social and political muddles we have got ourselves into.” The leader went on to emphasize the breadth of Jung’s thought, noting how his early work in psychoanalysis gave way to “intellectual excursions [that] reach far beyond the consulting-room.” Unlike Freud, “who belonged essentially to the nineteenth century,” Jung’s intellectual excursions marked him as fundamentally “a twentieth-century figure” with abiding significance.1
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Vincent Brome, “The Man Who Woke the World,” Guardian, 19 July 1975, 9.
H. I’A. F., “Dr. Jung,” review of Modern Man in Search of a Soul, by C.G. Jung, Manchester Guardian, 13 September 1933, 5.
Andrew Von Hendy, The Modern Construction of Myth (Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002), xvi–xvii.
R.G. Collingwood, The Philosophy of Enchantment: Studies in Folktale, Cultural Criticism, and Anthropology, ed. David Boucher, Wendy James, and Philip Smallwood ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007 ), 170.
Anthony Storr, “Commonsense About Jung,” Times Literary Supplement, 18 May 1962, 356.
Roy Perrot, “The Relevance of Jung,” Observer, 28 January 1973, 34.
Carl Gustav Jung interviewed by Gordon Young, “The Art of Living,” in William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull eds., C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters ( London: Thames and Hudson, 1978 ), 429–30.
Philip Toynbee, “Jung’s Inner Life,” Observer, 7 July 1963, 23.
Oliver Louis Zangwill, “Introductions to Jung,” Times Literary Supplement, 30 July 1954, 489.
Kathleen Raine, “Job and the Unconscious,” Encounter 4, no. 4 (April 1955): 86.
Kathleen Raine, “A Serious Call,” Times Literary Supplement, 2 September 1955, 513.
Philip Toynbee, “Jung’s Inner Life,” Observer, 7 July 1963, 23.
Philip Toynbee, “Symbols of Our Time,” Observer, 25 October 1964, 26.
Philip Toynbee, “God and Dr Jung,” Observer, 20 June 1976, 27.
See H.L. Philp, Jung and the Problem of Evil ( London: Rockliff, 1958 )
David Cox, Jung and St Paul: A Study of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith and its Relation to the Concept of Individuation (London: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1959 ).
Laurens van der Post, Jung and the Story of Our Time ( London: Hogarth Press, 1976 ), 232.
Geoffrey Wansell, “Explorer of the Unconscious,” Times (London), 20 November 1971, 12.
Robert Ellwood, The Politics of Myth: A Study of C.G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell ( Albany, NY: State University Press of New York, 1999 ), 3.
C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959 ), 4.
F.R. Leavis, “Two Cultures? The Significance of C.P. Snow,” Spectator, 9 March 1962, 297–303.
For an excellent recent interpretation of this episode see Guy Ortolano, The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature, and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 ).
John A.T. Robinson, Honest to God (London: SCM Press, 1963). A more detailed discussion of this episode can be found in Chapter 8 below.
Grace Davie, Religion in Britain since 1945: Believing without Belonging ( Oxford: Blackwell, 1994 ), 94.
Grace Davie, “From Obligation to Consumption: A Framework for Reflection in Northern Europe,” Political Theology 6 no. 3 (2005): 281–301.
Anthony Storr, “Child and Man,” Times Literary Supplement, 29 September 1961, 647.
G.C. Bunn, A.D. Lovie, and G.D. Richards eds., Psychology in Britain: Historical Essays and Personal Reflections ( Leicester: BPS Books, 2001 ).
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Sterenberg, M. (2013). Myth and the Quest for Psychological Wholeness: C.G. Jung as Spiritual Sage. In: Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137354976_6
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