The Creation of Consciousness: Jung’s Myth for Modern Man Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the author attempts to create a world-view which brings together science and its search for knowledge with the religious quest for meaning. The focus of the book is on the life of the individual set against modern threats to the global community. About the Author Edward F. Edinger was a medical psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and American writer. Edward F. Edinger Jr. was born on December 13, 1922, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, earning his Bachelor of Arts in chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington and his Doctor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine in 1946.