C.G. Jung

Altair

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C's recommended to study Gurdjieff and Jung. There is a great deal of Gurdjieff related threads on the forum but scarcely ones dedicated to Jung. Moreover there are no Jung's books in the recommended read list. Why is it so? Are his works hard to comprehence or just not related to the Work? Could someone recommend his books? Is the "Man and his symbols" a good choice to start with?

Many thanks

Altair
 
Man and his symbols seems to be a good start as recommended by a few members,
for instance in this thread: https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,27390.msg334818.html#msg334818

There are also a few other threads on Jung.

https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,13665.msg102497.html#msg102497

https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,25403.msg299903.html#msg299903
 
I agree that "Man and His Symbols" gives a good overview of Jung's work. I have read a few of Jung's original writings - they are quite challenging. Jung's student Marie Von Franz is an author whom I like. She makes Jung easier to understand - at least for me. She has a written one or two chapters in "Man and His Symbols" - if you like her style you can check out some of her works as well. Von Franz covers quite a bit of ground like her teacher Jung - so specific book suggestions would depend on what you want to delve into.

I do not know why there are not as many discussions about Jung here. From what I have read about Jungian psychology, I think it complements the Work.

My 2 cents
 
I agree that "Man and His Symbols" is the best place to start reading Jung's work and is a very good overview. It is the only book written by Jung that is for the "lay person" at the end of his life, being convinced to do so by his colleagues/students. Although it ended up as a book where Jung is the editor as several of his colleagues and students wrote different chapters in it in addition to Jung's writing.

All other books written by Jung are written for other psychologists and can be more difficult to read. You can also search for keywords: alchemy, psychology, Jung. There should be a couple of threads that come up. Oh, and I also agree that Jungian psychology and his life's work complements the 4th Way Work. Hope this helps some.
 
Anthony said:
Man and his symbols seems to be a good start as recommended by a few members,
for instance in this thread: https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,27390.msg334818.html#msg334818

There are also a few other threads on Jung.

https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,13665.msg102497.html#msg102497

https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,25403.msg299903.html#msg299903
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Thanks Anthony,

I'll check the threads.
 
I always like reading biographies and autobiographies of the thinkers whose thoughts I'm trying to grasp.
Jung's own Memories, Dreams, Reflections is easier to read than his academic works.
Colin Wilson's CGJung: Lord of the Underworld and the more recent Jung the Mystic by Gary Lachman both argue that Jung was naturally and mystic and/or Occultist, and that the pressure he put on himself to appear as "scientific" as he could is one reason he is hard to read. Many Jungians argue that Jung was a terrible writer, but obviously a hyper important and seminal thinker.
Freida Fordham's An Introduction To Jung's Psychology is a good, concise, and economically primer.
CGJung Speaking: Interviews And Encounters is a good read, especially if his formal works are aggravating or too dense. The interview format gives you a sense of his active intelligence, and his humor.
Jung's "breakdown" is interesting in the light of Dabrowsky's theory of positive disintegration.
One of Jung's most important contributions was what he called Active Imagination, and yet he wrote surprisingly little about it. The best source on the subject I have found is Barbara Hannah's Encounters With The Soul: Active Imagination As Developed By CGJung.
 
Altair said:
Hi there
C's recommended to study Gurdjieff and Jung. There is a great deal of Gurdjieff related threads on the forum but scarcely ones dedicated to Jung. Moreover there are no Jung's books in the recommended read list. Why is it so? Are his works hard to comprehence or just not related to the Work? Could someone recommend his books? Is the "Man and his symbols" a good choice to start with?

Many thanks

Altair
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Murray Stein's "Jung's Map of the Soul:An Introduction" is a very good read. The parallels between Gurdjieff and Jung's thinking as outlined in that book are startling. I'd highly recommend it. It's a relatively cheap paperback that summarizes all of Jung's work in an easy to understand way, and it does make it easier to understand Jung's more advanced works IMO.

As it says on Amazon:
Probably the best one-volume English language summary of Jung's thought. . . Stein develops the cartographical metaphor of the title by beginning with the "surface" (ego) of the psyche and exploring successively more complex areas, including complexes, libido thoery, shadow, "anima/us," the self, individuation, and synchronicity. The map soon resembles the multidisciplinary chart of a solar system more than it does a flat map. In each subject area, Stein draws heavily on papers that Jung wrote late in his life, but he sets these in the context of Jung's earlier developing thought. This method allows the author to demonstrate the interconnectedness and coherence of Jung's mature work. -- Choice, 10/15/98
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Thanks for the recommendation Hesper. It looks like a very good place to start. Just ordered the Kindle edition :)
 
I have a book by Jung entitled "psychological types" that was given to me by my mother. It was her mother's, along with a few other books on psychology, and all her notes. I found this quite interesting, as my grandmother was a schizophrenic, and dissapeared out of our lives all together for over thirty years until my mom's husband found her a couple years before she died. I don't remember much of her, but my mom told me that she stopped letting her babysit me when i came home terrified that my mother was gonna chop me up in peices, and put me in a garbage bag. :scared:

i'm just curios if anyone has read this book, and what they think of it?
 
I have another question. Did anybody happened to read "The ReadBbook" by C.G. Jung? It's considered as the most mysterious of his books. Is it worth reading?
 
Altair said:
I have another question. Did anybody happened to read "The ReadBbook" by C.G. Jung? It's considered as the most mysterious of his books. Is it worth reading?
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Were you referring to The Red Book: Liber Novus? Wiki: _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_%28Jung%29

If so, I've not a chance to read it but it's on my list.
 
Zadius Sky said:
Altair said:
I have another question. Did anybody happened to read "The ReadBbook" by C.G. Jung? It's considered as the most mysterious of his books. Is it worth reading?
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Were you referring to The Red Book: Liber Novus? Wiki: _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_%28Jung%29

If so, I've not a chance to read it but it's on my list.
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Yes, I mean The Red Book: Liber Novus? It's rather expensive so I just wanted to ask whether somebody has already read it before I buy the book.
 
Hi Altair,

I know of its existence and am interested in it too but I haven't read it yet.

Would you want to read reviews of it, amazon always is the first place to look at for those -- there are 137 of them:

_http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Book-Philemon-Jung/dp/0393065677

The book itself can be read and downloaded here: _https://archive.org/details/LiberNovus-TheRedBookjung

I'm not sure it's the latest edition of it, though.

Hope this helps a bit. :)
 
Hey friends, I have a copy of the Red Book. I have read it...it's very interesting and esoteric, and a bit beyond my full understanding. It's quite large and has many illustrations that Jung made. I would like to donate it to the whole forum. Then all who desire to read it could do so for just the shipping costs instead of shelling out the $100.00+ for their own personal copy.

So if your in the US ( I don't think it would cost effective to ship it across the pond) and you can wait a bit, I can pack it up and send it to North Carolina donation address. I have a couple box's of work I need to send to TN tomorrow and will be going to the UPS depot and the post office.

If the mods want me to send it someplace other than the NC address please let me know. Thanks, Dave
 
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