Reviews for Jung: A Biography

The average rating for Jung: A Biography based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-12-28 00:00:00 Rodney Newkirk Carl Jung had an incredibly deep understanding of the psyche, which especially reflects in his work on the archetypes and his discussions of symbols. It is certain for me that there are few who has had as big of an impact in the psychology of personality as Jung had, and i believe that the same could be said about his addition to culture, and the collective conscious. To give a rating to a book about a mans life is hard, but the book has managed to deliver an essence of what i believe a biography should be; a good review of the mans life, that draws clear parallels between the mans own journey and the work that his journey produced. Jung was deeply concerned about diving into the spiritual realms of his own mind, dreams and thoughts. He explored countless ways of thinking of the world, from that of our shamanistic, gnostic and alchemical ancestors to that of modern time philosophers. He went great lengths to achieve different mental states, paradigm shifts, or what you would call in psychology "the individuation prosess". This book gives account for the steps he took to become the great thinker and man that he was. From his explorations of parapsychology, to his world travels and Nekyia - his night sea journey in the steps of Homers Hero in the Odyssey. Jung deserves attention if you want guidance to achieving new revelations of mind and dipping your toes in new realms of chaos and uncertainty. We have become all to protective of our own psyches and opinions, but the legacy of Jung leaves us with tools to live a more fulfilling and philosophical life. Jung could look thousands of years back in the past when thinking about a problem, an ability that we rarely see in these times of material consumption and connectivity. And it could be said that the main concern in his life work as a whole was that of reviving or revivifying culture. - perhaps it could be said of Jung that he offered us to drink from the blood of the God that Nietzsche left dead, the god that accounted for the most fundamental structural components of our western society. Jung wanted to find a way for mankind to learn from the past so that we could live in a way where we would not destroy ourself or each other. «The psyche is not of today! Its age is measured in many millions of years. Individual Consciousness is only the flower and fruit of a season, which grown up from the perennial rhizome under the earth, and finds itself more in harmony with the truth if it takes the existence of the rhizome into account. For the root-network is the mother of all things.»

Review # 2 was written on 2017-06-27 00:00:00 Robert Mosby Its a very nice introduction to Jung's Pyschology, Gerhard focuses more in the origen and the development of the terms used in Jung's Pyschology. I studied Jung before reading this, so it feelt easy going but i did learned some interesing facts i did not know about Jung in this book. I reccomend it to anyone interesed in Jung's Pyschology.