Landscapes of the soul: C.G. Jung and the exploration of the human psyche in Switzerland

Abstract

"Switzerland has long been home to “mappers of the mind” such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Carl Gustav Jung. The international development of psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis from the pioneering Rorschach Test and Ludwig Binswanger’s Daseinsanalyse to Jungian analytical psychology remains closely tied to Switzerland even today. In 1910, Sigmund Freud even considered making Zurich the “world capital of psychoanalysis.” Painting a lively picture of how mind and landscape are interlinked, this book unfurls a “psychogeography” of Switzerland that includes visionary works of art by Henry Fuseli, Heidi Bucher, H. R. Giger, Meret Oppenheim, and Thomas Hirschhorn, as well as texts by Murray Stein, Verena Kast, Stefan Zweifel, Christine Lötscher, Peter Schneider, Gesa Schneider, Lothar Müller, Ita Grosz-Ganzoni, Thomas Fischer, Elizabeth Leuenberger, Urs Germann, Ursina Klauser, and Michael Jakob, as well as an interview with Alain de Botton."-- Back cover.