Lectures on Jung's Typology (Seminar Series) [Paperback]

Von Marie-Louise Franz (Author), James Hillman (Author)

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Series: Seminar Series | Publication Date: January 1, 1971

First presented as lectures at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, the two authors expand, each in their own way, upon Jung's famous theory of types: Introversion and Extroversion as attitudes; Feeling, Thinking, Sensation and Intuition as functions of the personality.

Hillman elaborates upon the feeling function and differentiates it from eros, from emotion, from femininity and suggests ways of its educations.

Von Franz, perhaps Jung's closest pupil and follower, brings many practical examples to show the ways in which the inferior, unadapted side of personality uses the four functions for better and worse in relationships, in work, and in the development of the psyche.

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James Hillman is a renegade Jungian, worldwide lecture and cultural critic, and leading figure of Archetypal Psychology. The author of A Terrible Love of War, The Soul's Code, The Force of Character, and the Pulitzer-nominated Re-Visioning Psychology has received various honors and awards for his original approach to psychotherapy. Of his more than twenty books, Spring Publications has published Healing Fictions, Anima, Loose Ends, Archetypal Psychology, Suicide and the Soul, Insearch, Oedipus Variations (with Karl Kerényi), The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World, Inter Views, and Lectures on Jung’s Typology. He lives in Connecticut.

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Spring Publications, Inc.; 1st edition (January 1, 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 088214104X
• ISBN-13: 978-0882141046
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #515,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars von Franz masterful; Hillman ..., November 28, 2002

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This review is from: Lectures on Jung's Typology (Seminar Series) (Paperback)

If one has "read a little" of Jung's typology but has not ventured yet, or has ventured only partially, into Jung's seminal work Psychological Types, this book by von Franz and Hillman is a very good tutorial to get some of the concepts organized in ones head a little better. The book is divided into two sections. Both sections are transcripts of lectures given at the Jungian institute in Zurich. The first section is by von Franz and covers the Inferior Function. Hillman's half covers the Feeling Function. Although von Franz's section is focused on the development of the psychological type that is one's weaker type (ie: "inferior"), her exposition does cover all of the types. Each of von Franz's lectures is followed by a question and answer section as recorded during the seminars (Hillman's are not). One can say only that von Franz is masterful in her explanations. If one has read any of Jung's own seminars from the 1920's and 30's, von Franz's echo these here. Without overstating it, von Franz truly was closest to Jung in depth of understanding and ability at expression, perhaps better in the latter regard. She was primarilty a "thinking" type and it shows in her thoroughly thought out and well presented arguments. Hillman is another matter. Perhaps it is his disadvantage that his text follows von Franz's, but he does not rise to the same level, at least not for me. He must be a feeling-type as his arguments undulate choppily, taking a sideroad here, a back alley there, a forward lob somewhere else. He uses almost no examples, preferring to "define" as he goes along and seems to expect the reader to nod in agreement. Too much patience is expected of one, I'm afraid, and I didn't finish reading his part. Sorry. Von Franz' section is certainly worth the price alone, however. But feeling-types may prefer Hillman.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jung's typology without having to read Jung's Colleted Works, June 8, 2005

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This review is from: Lectures on Jung's Typology (Seminar Series) (Paperback)

Marie-Louise von Franz describes very clearly and with her usual sense of humour the different psyhcological types according to C. G. Jung. Short of reading Jung himself, it is the best book I have come across on the subject.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing, consciousness raising, October 7, 2010

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I have read much over the years of Jung's typology and the Myers-Briggs typology. Yet, this set of lectures kept me spellbound in almost every paragraph, particularly Hillman's lectures on the feeling function. When I consider that these lectures were given relatively early in his career and before 1971 I am all the more impressed. I have not read anything that describes the feeling function in such depth and clarity. My perseptive is quite adjusted. This is a consciousness raising book and not a self help book.