C.G. Jung and the archetypes of the collective unconscious.

1 Introduction. 2 The Renaissance ideal. 3 The birth of the scientific method. 4 Immanuel Kant's legacy. 5 The precursors of experimental psychology. 6 Experimental psychology's founders. 7 The history of hypnosis. 8 Clinical psychology's founders. 9 Sigmund Freud. Part 2: The Psychology of C.G. Jung. 10 The background for Jung's ideas. 11 Jung's model of the psyche. 12 The creativity of the unconscious. 13 A dynamic model of the psyche. 14 The shadow. 15 The anima/animus. 16 The self. 17 Alchemy as a model of psychological development. 18 The mysterious union. Part 3: Godel's Proof. 19 The roots of modern mathematics. 20 Mathematical formalism. 21 Self-referential systems. 22 Godel's proof

'The author presents a stimulating panorama of Jung's psychology, and shows how accurately it corresponds to the strange world described by twentieth-century scientists in fields other than psychology. He traces the development of the concept of the archetypes of the collective unconscious from the dawn of the scientific method in the Renaissance to twentieth-century mathematician Kurt Godel's proof of the limits of science. Robertson's presentation of Jung's psychology is the most complete to date, treating it as a connected whole, from the early experimental studies to the final work using alchemy as a model of psychological dynamics.'

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