Carl Gustav Jung

*Winner of the Gradiva Award for Best Book from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis* Sherry puts Jung and his work in historical context, providing a gold mine of obscure facts along the way. Extensively research and documented, the book provides an unbiased treatment of Jung's work. This study is a must for those interested in Jung and the intellectual climate of his time. Recommended. - CHOICE 'Jay Sherry's study is by turns indispensible for the future of historical research on Jung and disturbing in the picture it paints.' Journal of Analytical Psychology In placing Carl Jung in the full context of his time and place, Jay Sherry's book does what all good history does. Carl Jung: Avant-Garde Conservative displays the nuance and balance often lacking in the contentious literature on Jung. While sympathetic to Jung as a thinker wrestling with the challenges and conflicts of modernity, Sherry comprehensively and critically examines the shadows as well as the shadings of Jung's thoughts and actions. Of particular note in this regard is the author's careful contextual analysis of Jung's words and actions concerning Hitler and the Nazis. - Geoffrey Cocks, Julian S. Rammelkamp Professor of History, Albion College Jay Sherry goes to great scholarly lengths to paint the complex picture that was the cultural and political backdrop of the life and work of C. G. Jung. He handles these complex factors with a balanced intelligence and lack of bias. In so doing, he enables the reader to appreciate deeply that Jung was not only a truly exceptional individual but also a product of a broader world. Dr. Sherry is to be commended for so comprehensively and ably filling a significant and problematic gap in the world of Jung scholarship. - Stephen A. Martin, Co-Founder and President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation and former Editor-in-Chief of Quadrant: The Journal of Contemporary Jungian Thought