Personality, Divination and the Tarot [Paperback]

Carl Sargent (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Inner Traditions (November 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892812192
• ISBN-13: 978-0892812196
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,606,384 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Exploring the links between the tarot and psych archetypes, March 26, 2001

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"buffy0001" (Adelaide, South Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Personality, Divination and the Tarot (Paperback)

I saw this book in a second hand shop and subsequently devoured its contents... Cambridge professor Carl Sargent had expressed what I had felt for years - that the Tarot pre-dated Freud and Jung by at least 5 centuries in detailing the psychological 'journeys' we as humans will make in our lifetimes.

Sargent is an expert on both subjects, and draws both intuitive and scientific parallels between the older tarot and modern day psychological and personality theory. He explains the poignant theories of personality simply and easily, so the reader has no need of prior psychological knowledge.

This book is a must for those that like to focus more on the archetypal nature of the cards, in particlular in self-exploration. The extra depth this book gave to my understading of tarot was invaluable, and I have since found more recent books on the subject to continue my own exploration.

5.0 out of 5 stars "Our own imaginations and understanding.", November 22, 2006

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Fulgour Prentice (Flora Township) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Personality, Divination and the Tarot (Paperback)

My friend Llynn recommended this book, and so I'll let her words be my recommendation to you:

I haven't got a definitive guide to the TdM but... 'Personality, Divination, and the Tarot' by Carl Sargent, was recommended because the author uses the TdM. Why did the author choose the TdM? Because the cards come without a LWB! 'The Marseilles deck...forces us back upon our own imaginations and understanding.'

As the title suggests the cards are described using personality theories, but then suggestions are made for reading with the cards. Rather than upright and reversed meanings he gives positive and negative interpretations.

If you like a psychological approach to Tarot then this may be a good book to use.

:) Thanks, Llynn!