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Visions (2 Volume Set)

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Excellent editing by Claire Douglas. A profound work of one woman's individuation process by Jung.

Although peppered with Jung's usual mix of intuition with vast erudition, this seminar, based on a series of visions experienced by lay analyst Christiana Morgan, was painful to read, perhaps because Jung's racist bigotry and unresolved feelings toward women was so evident throughout it. He is particularly adept at interpreting women's strength and assertiveness as pathological animus activities, nor does he pause to wonder at the impatience in some of his statements or the disagreeing reactions of some of the women in his audience.

This quotation is out of context, of course, but its flavor illustrates what I mean: "I am afraid," decides Jung, "women often have a tendency to talk of things as they ought to be or as they desire them to be, or as they should become, but never as they are." UGH!! Still more alarming is how infrequently the audience openly questioned such outrageous remarks by the great man.

If you can get past all that and Jung's endless demonstrations of how smart he is, then you'll find treasures and glowing grottoes of psychological insight here and there, such as his brief description of how the Self differentiates out of the collective unconscious.

This edition has an informative intro that sums up some of the other issues brought into the seminar and why it was prematurely terminated.