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1) Paperback Book The Portable Jung (Viking Portable Library) by Penguin (Non-Classics). About twenty years ago I began reading Jung and found this volume to be my most trusted of trusted companions. It was edited by the great Joseph Campbell and provides the best introduction to Jung´s writings that I´ve come across. I always keep the volume handy, and each time I visit the various chapters I learn something new about human psychology, about the unconscious, about the shadow, about the complexities of the psyche and of human behavior itself. The volume is like a roadmap, a lonely planet guide that enables you to handle all the winds of misfortune that, without rhyme or reason, are guaranteed to hit you in life, all the grief, pain and sorrow that comprise the human experience.
-Tom Maremaa, Author of the Forthcoming novel "Metal Heads" from Kunati Books in Spring 2009¤ 2) Paperback Book The Portable Jung (Viking Portable Library) by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book came exactly as described. Its a wonderful book if you like Jung and as with most stuff written about Jung its not an easy read but necessary
if you want to really understand the man and his Philosophy.¤ 3) Paperback Book The Portable Jung (Viking Portable Library) by Penguin (Non-Classics). The book was in excellent condition when I received it. So far I have had only good experiences with all books ordered through Amazon. I am very impressed.¤ 4) Paperback Book The Portable Jung (Viking Portable Library) by Penguin (Non-Classics). This is a fascinating book on Jungian thought and his psychological concepts. If you avoid being intimidated by the size of the book, and you methodically go through each page from the beginning to the end, you will grasp the extent and depth of Jung´s intellect and ideas.
The word "archetype" is used by Jung to describe the concept of the strong unseen influences that result in predictable psychological states. He describes an archetype as psychic in form where instinct and conditioned behaviour can be observed in the behaviour of people. This can be observed in religious symbols, fairytales and stories.
Jung describes the existence of three layered psyche consisting of the conscious or active part of the mind, the personal unconscious, that is thinking over which we have little or no control and the collective unconscious, which he describes as animal-instinctive mental activity. The collective unconscious tells us that people are the same at the lowest, biological levels.
The book is a must read for those people who want a deeper understanding of their existence and some tools to help them explore the unknown. I recommend reading Jung´s works and then compare and contrast them with that of Freud, who uses a different style. Reading these contrasting works should enable one to have a fuller appreciation of their existence.
¤ 5) Paperback Book The Portable Jung (Viking Portable Library) by Penguin (Non-Classics). I don´t consider myself to be a total idiot. I´ve read a little psychology, a lot of philosophy, quite a bit of mythology, and have a fair grasp of history. At the same time, I´m also open to what today we call "New Age" or "occult" even if I am always going to be a bit of a skeptic. None of that really helped here. Ever read a paragraph and realize that you didn´t really get what you just read? This might happen if you´re tired, or lose your focus for a minute. Then you go back and re-read it and it makes more sense. Well, The Portable Jung reads like that initial scenario for me from start to finish, no matter how focused I am. The thing is, when I read a summary of Jung´s ideas from another writer, I understand exactly what is being said. The collective unconscious,anima/animus, the shadow...it makes sense. Then I read Jung´s own writing and can´t connect the sentences. My grandmother says it just must be "bad writing." I don´t know. Maybe Jung sensed in his own time the hostility and ultimate rejection of his ideas by the scientific community and always wrote and spoke that way to avoid the ridicule that plainer speaking of such unorthodox subject matter would provoke. (Wow, multiply the awkwardness of that sentence by 10 and you´d think I was channeling the spirit of ol´ Gustav). Ironically, Jung has pretty much been ditched by the psychological community and embraced by English majors, such as myself, who would receive the written equivalent of a scowl from our professors if we ever wrote with the pretentiousness and virtually alien syntax of this book. Anyway, I worked and worked at appreciating The Portable Jung, reading as carefully as possible. I really wanted to like it. But first I needed to understand what I was reading sentence by sentence. I never did (however, the reasoning, when the clouds occasionally parted, seems to be pretty much what you´d expect from anyone trying to justify what is essentially parapsychology. Check out the references to the 300-something "random" interpretations of a patient´s dreams, which, ta-da, remarkably revolve around the idea of alchemy and an Asiatic symbol called a mandala). 2 stars, though, since I did start keep track of my dreams a bit more (however I have concluded that a recent dream involving rollerskating had more to a movie preview I saw the day before of "ATL" rather than the Wheel Of Life).
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