Psychology of the unconscious

The title Psychology of the Unconscious, which was bestowed on this translation of what may have been the most influential work by C. G. Jung, has been problematic since the book was published in 1916. The public of that day would have expected a book on "the psychology of the unconscious" to offer a presentation in general terms of the newly emerging school, or schools, of depth psychology. Rather, though Jung's treatise belongs to such a school, it was his entirely individual attempt to find a coherence among ideas in religion, psychoanalysis, philosophy, cultural history, literature, and his personal situation. As for coherence, Jung himself said that his book consisted of fragments strung together in an unsatisfying manner, a description easy to accept.