Jung, Carl Gustav by Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

Princeton. 2010. October 2010. Princeton University Press. 1st Printing of This New Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780691150505. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. With a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani . 144 pages. paperback. keywords: Psychology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This paperback edition of one of Jung's classic works includes a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani, editor of The Red Book and Philemon Professor of Jung History at University College London. Jung was intrigued from early in his career with coincidences, especially those surprising juxtapositions that scientific rationality could not adequately explain. He discussed these ideas with Albert Einstein before World War I, but first used the term ‘synchronicity' in a 1930 lecture, in reference to the unusual psychological insights generated from consulting the I Ching. A long correspondence and friendship with the Nobel prize–winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli stimulated a final, mature statement of Jung's thinking on synchronicity, originally published in 1952 and reproduced here. Together with a wealth of historical and contemporary material, this essay describes an astrological experiment Jung conducted to test his theory. Synchronicity reveals the full extent of Jung's research into a wide range of psychic phenomena. inventory #37821 ISBN: 9780691150505.