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Ages of Anxiety: Auden Reading Jung in Times of War

Author(s) : Craig E. Stephenson

Reviews and Endorsements

This is one of the most brilliant and original works by a Jungian analyst that I have read in the past decade: an astute and penetrating analysis and insightful extension of the meaning of W. H. Auden’s poem, The Age of Anxiety.
Steven Herrmann, author of William James and C. G. Jung: Doorways to the Self

An original and profound study of how war shaped Auden as a poet: how he used Jung’s psychology to understand the turmoil and dread provoked by war, to organize morally and aesthetically the responses of the individual psyche and society to fascism and to probe the poet’s responsibilities in time of war.
Ruth Padel, author of Darwin: A Life in Poems, In and Out of the Mind, and On Migration

In the current time of mounting political tensions, with dark echoes of escalating intolerance, Stephenson gives us an erudite and reflective reconsideration of one of the twentieth century’s most gifted poets. The central but subtle use of Jung’s view of the psyche, especially his typology, are shown to be woven through The Age of Anxiety, informing its deepest vision. Stephenson’s own creative brilliance manifests through the lightness of his touch.
Joe Cambray, author of Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe