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Flying Saucers : A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies Paperback – January 1, 1979

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"In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had their abode in the planets.... Even people who would never have thought that a religious problem could be a serious matter that concerned them personally are beginning to ask themselves fundamental questions. Under these circumstances it would not be at all surprising if those sections of the community who ask themselves nothing were visited by `visions,' by a widespread myth seriously believed in by some and rejected as absurd by others."--C. G. Jung, in Flying Saucers
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Jung's primary concern in Flying Saucers is not with the reality or unreality of UFOs but with their psychic aspect. Rather than speculate about their possible nature and extraterrestrial origin as alleged spacecraft, he asks what it may signify that these phenomena, whether real or imagined, are seen in such numbers just at a time when humankind is menaced as never before in history. The UFOs represent, in Jung's phrase, "a modern myth."

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160 pages
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English
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Princeton University Press
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January 1, 1979
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5.5 x 0.42 x 8.3 inches
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0691018227
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978-0691018225
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While Jung is known mainly for his theories on the nature of the unconscious mind, he did have an interest in the paranormal. In this essay, Jung applies his analytical skills to the UFO phenomenon. Rather than assuming that the modern prevalence of UFO sightings are due to extraterrestrial craft, Jung reserves judgment on their origin and connects UFOs with archetypal imagery, concluding that they have become a "living myth." This essay is intriguing in its methodology and implications as to the nature of UFOs and their relation to the human psyche.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press (January 1, 1979)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0691018227
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691018225
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.42 x 8.3 inches

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D. Krstulovich

Same questions today as ever

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2021

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Fascinating that the intrigue, experiences and ponderings of UFOs has not changed at all over the decades (or centuries if you count ancient spiritual beliefs). I suspect this means something. The question has ALWAYS been, "what?"

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Human Action

A different take on the UFO phenomenon from one of the world's most eminent psychologists

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2021

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Outstanding! Should be on every Ufologist's shelf. Interpretation of the problem as only Jung could do it.

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Barbara M. Hand

Carl Jung - what can I say?!!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2017

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Jung is always a heavy and healthy read

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Average Joe

Another skeptic turned believer

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2011

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What do Carl Jung and Allen Hynek have in common? Both were very skeptical men of science, that turned their professional knowledge and attention to the (Then very hot) topic of UFO's, and in the end they both became believers and spent most of the rest of their lives studying this incredible phenomena.

Jung was probably sick to death of hearing all the buzz in the early 50's about flying saucers and decided to discover the psychological underpinnings of what he saw as a form of mass hysteria.

He began his research, as Hynek and any good scientist would, by examining the cases first hand. As Jung was skeptical that the average man on the street could not provide accurate eyewitness accounts, he reserved his interviews to "Professional observers", pilots, military personnel, police and radar operators.

Over time he became unnerved, as he realized that these people were not only credible witness's, but were clearly quite sane. So just as Hynek eventually changed his view on the UFO phenomena, so to did Jung.

The big difference was that Jung still feared ridicule from his peers, so he never came out and said he was a believer, but it is very poignant that at the end of this short book, he leaves the topic open, by stating that either humanity is suffering some kind of mass hallucination, or we ARE being visited by aliens. He postulates that either option should give us plenty to be concerned about.

It is interesting to note that Jungs close friends claimed that he was fascinated by the UFO phenomenon for the remainder of his life.

This book is best suited for those who are fascinated with psychology, Jungs work and archetypes. If you are more interested in ufology as a whole, this book is less interesting.

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Miranda Simon

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Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2016

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I needed this book at the last minute to fulful a missed class ass assignment for a grad class for a professor who liked my prior work on Jung. I had one week to complete the entire research assignment lit review etc. The book shipped in time etc. to enable me to read it in its entirety and successfully complete the assignment

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Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2017

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Great academic literature. Came quickly and was as described. Physically the book was in perfect condition.

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ARE UFOS AN ARCHETYPAL PROJECTION? JUNG THINKS SO...

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2010

Jung wrote in the Preface to the First English Edition, "In 1954 I wrote an article ... In 1958 this article was suddenly discovered by the world press and the 'news' spread like wildfire ... but---alas---in distorted form. I was quoted as a saucer-believer. I issued a statement ... (but) nobody, as far as I know, took any notice of it... one must draw the conclusion that belief that UFOs are real suits the general opinion, whereas disbelief is to be discouraged. This creates the impression that there is a tendency ... to believe in saucers and to want them to be real ... Why should it be more desirable for saucers to exist than not? The following pages are an attempt to answer that question."

Here are some representative quotations from the book:

"One can hardly suppose that anything of such worldwide incidence as the UFO legend is purely fortuitous and of no importance whatever. The many thousands of individual testimonies must have an equally extensive causal basis."
"The plurality of UFOs, then, is a projection of a number of psychic images of wholeness which appear in the sky because on the one hand they represent archetypes charged with energy and on the other hand are not recognized as psychic factors."
"(T)he heyday of astrology was not in the benighted Middle Ages but in the middle of the twentieth century, when even the newspapers do not hesitate to publish the week's horoscope."
"Thus there are times when, as I have often seen, a dream that is not understood can still have a compensatory effect, even though as a rule conscious understanding is required..."
"It boils down to nothing less than this: that either psychic projections throw back a radar echo, or else the appearance of real objects affords an opportunity for mythological projections."

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Jennifer Grey

I can't be the only person who read this because of The X-Files

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2014

I fully confess to having purchased this many years ago almost entirely due to my conviction that a similar copy likely occupied a place of honor on Fox Mulder's bookshelf. The amount of time it took me to get around to reading it therefore owes more to my opinion of the series finale of The X-Files than it does to my opinion of Jung. Having just done a little Jungian brush-up, however, I decided it was finally time to tackle this one.

Sadly, I must report it's a bit of an anticlimax. Although I found Jung's main theory that UFOs are a sort of mass manifestation of a newly agnostic society's Cold War anxiety fascinating, most of this slender volume is actually dedicated to the interpretation of dreams or paintings featuring UFOs. This gives Jung license to wax on about mythology and literature with a fairly astounding amount of erudition, but it's decidedly dull (unless, I suppose, the dreams or paintings happen to be yours). I kept perking up every time Jung alluded to J.B. Rhine, hoping things would take a turn for the para-psychological, but alas, allusions were all they were. In the end, I most enjoyed the original letter/article Jung wrote to a German newspaper disabusing them of the idea that he could speak definitively as to the existence of UFOs one way or the other.

As interesting as it is to see one of the great minds of psychology take on the slightly goofy topic of extraterrestrials, the payoff here is significantly less than the promise. Though it may serve as a useful deterrent for anyone considering undergoing dream analysis.

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Starwalker

Must read ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2021

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Jung's thoughtful and illuminating views on UFOs etc. Read it decades ago, and again just recently. Even more meaningful now.

DS1111

manipulativer Umgang mit Worten, keine eigenen Erfahrungen, daher ermüdend

Reviewed in Germany on October 7, 2018

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Es ist stets problematisch über ein Thema zu schreiben, mit dem man selbst (laut eigener Aussage) keine eigenen Erfahrungen gemacht hat. Herr Jung meinte offensichtlich dennoch, sich in die sog. "UFO-Diskussion" einklinken zu müssen.

Mir fallen gleich zu Beginn der Abhandlung die deutlichen sprachlichen Manipulationen auf, wie z.B. das UFO-Thema als "Problem" zu bezeichnen (ist es denn eins? Fragt sich, für wen.) oder z.B. als "Legende" (ist es nur eine Legende? Hofft er das?).

Fazit: Ich spare mir das Weiterlesen. Es ist - das ist meine persönliche Ansicht - schon ziemlich arm, dass jemand, der sich selbst für so sehr spirituell hielt, so oberflächlich mit ausgerechnet diesem Thema umgegangen ist.

Für unsereins ist so eine Schrift jedenfalls aus der Kategorie "die Erde ist eine Scheibe" und daher ermüdende Zeitverschwendung. Daher von mir nur 1 Stern, eigentlich würde ich gerne gar keinen vergeben. (Ich beziehe mich auf die ersten Seiten des Buches, der Rest mag spannender sein?)

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