Understood in terms of his own psychology as a symbolic representation of the archetypes of the collective unconscious, Jung found in astrology a wealth of spiritual and psychological meaning and suggested it represents the 'sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity. The book will be of great interest to analytical psychologists, Jungian psychotherapists and academics and students of depth psychology, Jungian and post-Jungian studies, as well as to astrologers and therapists of other orientations, especially transpersonal.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the perfect introduction to the theories and concepts of one of the most original and influential religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Lively and insightful, it covers all of his most significant themes, including man's need for a God and the mechanics of dream analysis.
One of his most famous books, it perfectly captures the feelings of confusion that many sense today. Generation X might be a recent concept, but Jung spotted its forerunner over half a century ago. For anyone seeking meaning in today's world, Modern Man in Search of a Soul is a must. Stephani L. It will also be of great interest to Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, analytical psychologists and practitioners of other psychological disciplines interested in Jungian ideas.
This volume from the Collected Works of C. Jung has become known as perhaps the best introduction to Jung's work. In these famous essays he presented the essential core of his system.
This is the first paperback publication of this key work in its revised and augmented second edition. The earliest versions of the essays are included in an Appendices, containing as they do the first tentative formulations of Jung's concept of archetypes and the collective unconscious, as well as his germinating theory of types. While never losing sight of the rational, cultured mind, Jung speaks for the natural mind, source of the evolutionary experience and accumulated wisdom of our species.
Through his own example, Jung shows how healing our own living connection with Nature contributes to the whole. Jung's lectures on the psychology of Eastern spirituality—now available for the first time Between and , C. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from dream analysis to the psychology of alchemy.
An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. In the spring of , when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story.
Jung continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, , making this a uniquely comprehensive reflection on a remarkable life. He can no longer create fables. As a result, a great deal escapes him; for it is important and salutary to speak also of incomprehensible things. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is controversial because it was still in manuscript form when Jung died, and required further editing to become the final version.
But it found the popular audience that Jung had always hoped for, and inspired many people to become psychoanalysts. Like a Christmas cake, it will be too rich and dense for some; for others it may inspire a life-long interest in Jungian psychology, which aims to reveal the spiritual forces that lie behind the science of the mind and personality.
In this environment Jung naturally grew up dwelling on religious issues. The God he imagined was not personal or enlightening, but simply represented the power of the universe in all its light, darkness, chance, and infiniteness. He felt that the truly spiritual person is a free thinker who demands experience of God rather that mere faith.
This idea of the divine as not all sweetness and light, and his belief that Christianity had never been able to deal satisfactorily with the question of evil, put Jung at odds with orthodox Christianity. Modern people are too objective, he wrote, their spiritual horizons too narrow; many lives are lived almost entirely on the plane of the conscious, rational mind.
Were they to close the gap between their ego and unconscious minds, Jung believed, people would return to full mental health. His experience with psychiatric patients led him to believe that the psyche is by nature religious, and that the spiritual dimension is a basic element in psychology. The emphasis was on symptoms and making a diagnosis. This self-knowledge would allow a sense of unity of purpose about our life and our personality to emerge. His own No. We appreciate that its integration is necessary for mental health.
Without such integration, we tend to project onto other people or things what we do not recognize in ourselves, with often harmful consequences.
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