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. This paperback edition of Jung's classic work includes a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani, Philemon Professor of Jung History at University College London
Entre 1870 y 1930 se establecieron las principales escuelas de la psicología moderna, y una de las figuras fundamentales fue sin duda Carl Gustav Jung. Pero ¿quién es Jung y cómo hay que enfocar su psicología? Este es un libro sobre Jung y sobre el surgimiento y desarrollo de la psicología y las terapias modernas. Basado en fuentes reales y cotejadas, trata las principales cuestiones de la obra de Jung.