When Carl Jung and Carl Kerenyi got together to collaborate on this book, their aim was to elevate the study of mythology to a science. Kerenyi wrote on two of the most ubiquitous myths, the Divine Child and The Maiden, supporting the core stories with both an introduction and a conclusion. Jung then provided a psychological analysis of both myths. He defined myth as a story about heroes interacting with the gods. Having long studied dreams and the subconscious, Jung identified certain dream patterns common to everyone. These archetypes have developed through the centuries, and enable modern...

Psychological reflections about dictatorship and its supporters are urgently needed today and Jung explores the problems for psychotherapists at such times and shows how they can help in the process of renewal and reconstruction.

Written in the 1950s at the height of popular fascination with UFO's, this is the great psychologists brilliantly prescient meditation on the phenomenon that gripped the world.

How can difference in the rate of suicide be explained? That is the central question in this classic work by the father of modern sociology, Emile Durkheim. What interested Durkheim was not so much the reasons for an individual's suicide but why one society had a higher rate of suicide than another and why there were variations between social classes or religious groups.

Of all the books of the Bible few have had more resonance for modern readers than the Book of Job. For a world that has witnessed great horrors, Job's cries of despair and incomprehension are all too recognizable. The visionary psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung understood this and responded with this book, in which he set himself face-to-face with the unvarnished spectacle of divine savagery and ruthlessness.

In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. He called the new process deconstruction. Rewriting the ways in which we use language and literature, deconstruction affected every form of intellectual thought, from literary criticism to popular culture. It also criticized the entire tradition of Western philosophy, from Plato to Bataille."

This complete reference guide to Chinese grammar presents a fresh and accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Chinese. It is ideal for use in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types. The volume is organized to promote a thorough understanding of Chinese grammar. It offers a stimulating analysis of the complexities of the language, and provides full and clear explanations. Throughout, the emphasis is on Chinese as used by present-day native speakers.

In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. His influence dominates contemporary thinking. Madness and Civilization is Foucault's first book. His other books expand on themes established here: power and imprisonment are at the very heart of this study. Madness and Civilization could change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself."

In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Levi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence.

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the 20th century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existentialist movement which he helped to found, whereby God is replaced by an ethical self, proved hugely attractive to a generation that had seen the horrors of Nazism, and provoked a revolution in post-war thought and literature. In this work, Sartre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to...