Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 17: The Development of Personality

Dr Jung has made a unique contribution to the psychology of childhood in this collection of eight papers and has gone far in applying modern analytical concepts to educational theory and practice.  He has repeatedly underlined the overwhelming importance of parents and teachers in the genesis of the intellectual, feeling, and emotional disorders of childhood.  Three lectures on “Analytical Psychology and Education” expound his views on this subject.  This volume also contains essays on psychic conflicts in the child, gifted children, and the significance of the unconscious in education, and a stimulating paper on “Marriage as a Psychological Relationship.”  Finally, the essay giving the present volume its title links together the problems of child development and individuation.