In twelve essays, an internationally known analyst explores important aspects of psychotherapy from a Jungian perspective, incorporating her wide-ranging interests in the fields of mythology, alchemy, science, and religion to illuminate such topics as transference, personality types, and dream interpretation.
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Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998) was the foremost student of C. G. Jung, with whom she worked closely from 1934 until his death in 1961. A founder of the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich, she published widely on subjects including alchemy, dreams, fairy tales, personality types, and psychotherapy.
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This is an important book for those interested in Jungian Psychology. It helps give one a practical understanding of some of the more important themes that come up in therapy. Having read several of von Franz's analyses of fairy tales, and been quite impressed with her sensitivity and depth of understanding, I was looking forward to seeing her principles at work in a practical setting. I was not disappointed. Von Franz was a "thinking" type (unfortunately she died in 1998), and it shows in the quality and clarity of her writing. Many specific examples are included that help keep the theory grounded in the reality of everyday life.
This book is a collection of essays that were published at different times in different journals. The first essay (which takes up about 40% of the book), covers the inferior function. It is a great help to those who are trying to determine their own type and perhaps the types of loved ones. This is important, because understanding types can help you become aware of and anticipate your own and others weaknesses, and deal with them in a constructive manner. Other essays cover active imagination, the nature of transference, projection, group psychology and analysis as a profession. Each essay contains rare insights, refreshing points of view, analyzed dreams and a healthy dose of von Franz's distinctive personality. This book helped me pull together a lot of ideas that were expounded in other books with a narrower focus. Like her other books, it is most rewarding to those who take the time to reflect on what is being said. Together with Edward F. Edinger, von Franz will continue to allow a broader audience to appreciate Jung's genius. Recommended.
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As always with Von Franz her writing is clear, concise and direct. No room for confusion here. With the book presented as a series of lectures it allows for ease of reading if one has limited time. One for the permanent collection.
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Anyone who has read anything else by Marie-Louise von Franz knows what to expect from one of her books - erudition, encyclopedic knowledge and plenty of down to earth clinical advice. The spirit of Jung breathes out of every single page and can't help but capture and hold your attention.
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Self-realization is a word that is being used today by various psychological schools, for the most part in a way based loosely on Jung's concept of individuation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aeternus problem, inferior sensation, inferior intuition, extraverted sensation type, filius regius, inferior function, introverted sensation type, real active imagination, extraverted feeling type, extraverted thinking type, introverted thinking type, introverted feeling type, extraverted intuitive, inferior feeling, inferior thinking, introverted intuition, superior function, dreamer herself, introverted intuitive, outer facts, intuitive type, puer aeternus, fourth function, fourfold structure, mysterium coniunctionis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Magical Attitude, New York, Some Aspects of the Transference, Individual Therapy, Religious Background of Puer Aeternus Problem, Don Juan, Mircea Eliade, Princeton University Press, Great Mother, Psychology Club, Psychology of the Transference, Bruno Goetz, Psychology of Jung, Der Traum, Herr von Spat, Herr von Spit, Holy Ghost, Bollingen Series, Iron Hans, John Maggee, The Myth of Meaning, Therefore Jung, Ulrich van Spit, Zen Buddhist New!
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Self-realization is a word that is being used today by various psychological schools, for the most part in a way based loosely on Jung's concept of individuation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aeternus problem, inferior sensation, inferior intuition, extraverted sensation type, filius regius, inferior function, introverted sensation type, real active imagination, extraverted feeling type, extraverted thinking type, introverted thinking type, introverted feeling type, extraverted intuitive, inferior feeling, inferior thinking, introverted intuition, superior function, dreamer herself, introverted intuitive, outer facts, intuitive type, puer aeternus, fourth function, fourfold structure, mysterium coniunctionis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Magical Attitude, New York, Some Aspects of the Transference, Individual Therapy, Religious Background of Puer Aeternus Problem, Don Juan, Mircea Eliade, Princeton University Press, Great Mother, Psychology Club, Psychology of the Transference, Bruno Goetz, Psychology of Jung, Der Traum, Herr von Spat, Herr von Spit, Holy Ghost, Bollingen Series, Iron Hans, John Maggee, The Myth of Meaning, Therefore Jung, Ulrich van Spit, Zen Buddhist New!
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- Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 14) by C. G. Jung on 7 pages
- Psychological Types (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.6) by C. G. Jung on 6 pages
- Psychology and Religion (The Terry Lectures Series) by Carl Gustav Jung on 5 pages
- The Psychology of the Transference by C. G. Jung on 5 pages
- Analytical Psychology by C. G. Jung on 4 pages
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