Download or read book Jung and Aesthetic Experience written by Donald H. Mayo and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the source of artistic inspiration and the related effect of great art upon the audience or reader? This work provides the best answer yet given to this difficult question that has been speculated upon by artists and in philosophic writings since Plato. The author has extracted and explicated a coherent theory of aesthetics from Carl Jung's voluminous writings, arguing that Jung's is the best explanation of the phenomenon of artistic inspiration. Finally a scheme is proposed for a system of criticism based on Jung's writings.