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Psychology of the Unconscious Paperback – January 27, 2003

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In this, his most famous and influential work, Carl Jung made a dramatic break from the psychoanalytic tradition established by his mentor, Sigmund Freud. Rather than focusing on psychopathology and its symptoms, the Swiss psychiatrist studied dreams, mythology, and literature to define the universal patterns of the psyche.
In Psychology of the Unconscious, Jung seeks a symbolic meaning and purpose behind a given set of symptoms, placing them within the larger context of the psyche. The 1912 text examines the fantasies of a patient whose poetic and vivid mental images helped Jung redefine libido as psychic energy, arising from the unconscious and manifesting itself consciously in symbolic form. Jung's commentary on his patient's fantasies offers a complex study of symbolic psychiatry and foreshadows his development of the theory of collective unconscious and its constituents, the archetypes.
The author's role in the development of analytical psychology, a therapeutic process that promotes creativity and psychological development, makes this landmark in psychoanalytic methodology required reading for students and others interested in the practice and process of psychology.

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Publisher : Dover Publications (January 27, 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 624 pages
ISBN-10 : 0486424995
ISBN-13 : 978-0486424996
Item Weight : 1.6 pounds
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.3 x 8.5 inches

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Digital version poorly transcribed.

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2018

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I don’t recommend purchasing the digital version of this book. Constantly finding words being attached together and/or misspelled.

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Brian Dilg

Typos render this Kindle edition unreadable

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This particular Kindle edition is unreadable - produced by faulty scanning and completely overrun with typos, words mashed together, misplaced titles, and completely erroneous characters. Should be taken off the store.

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RRandall

Dense and rewarding

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The description above correctly states that sometimes Jung trades readability for erudition. He was an astonishingly well read man, a polyglot, and seemingly an etymologist as well. He moves quickly from the myths of one society to another, sometimes assuming a familiarity which I do not have. Still, I was able to understand the myths that he referenced from context, for the most part.

Jung believes, in contrast to Freud, that the libido (that is, what he calls the genetic libido) is broader than the merely sexual libido. He "proves" this assertion through an analysis of the disinvestment of the world by the libido in psychosis. This disinvestment, Jung argues, is so complete in psychosis that it cannot possibly be merely the disinvestment of the sexual libido. That is, the subtraction of the sexual libido's energy from the individual's engagement with the world could not explain the completeness of the individual's disengagement with the world in psychosis. This seems to me to be a strong argument, if one accepts the premise that neurosis and psychosis can be explained by degrees of investment of the libido.

I was less convinced by his contention that as one becomes disengaged with the world, one regresses into oneself such that one's thought processes come to reflect the thought processes of earlier societies. For one, this is problematic because it assumes that some societies are more "primitive" than other societies. Secondly, it seems a bit outlandish to claim that, somehow, antique Greek myths are lying beneath the conscious mind of, for example, your average uneducated Middle American. Nonetheless, Jung marshals a huge amount of anecdotal evidence—from his practice and from mythology and literature—in support of this claim. It is enough, at least, to assume the claim is correct in order to follow his analysis of Ms. Miller through the rest of the book.

I won't go over his discussions of the importance of the symbols of fire, trees, the sun's going up and down, dragons, sea monsters, treasures obtained at difficulty, etc. All of his arguments are, again, supported by a frankly unbelievable array of examples in literature, mythology, and Jung's clinical practice.

In the end, I both was seriously challenged by and really enjoyed this book. I feel like it has given me another vocabulary with which to engage with literature, film, and art. I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the subject.

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Jarrod

Insightful and thought provocative read

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well written and detailed book however as stated in the introduction, the book will be most useful to those who are interested in thoroughly studying Jung's ideas as it might be quite a challenging read for the layman. A prior understanding of Faust as well as some Greek, Christian and Mithraic mythology and theology would come in handy to anyone interested in this book. Nevertheless the book offers great insight into Jung's early thought processes and I would definitely recommend it

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pko

There are at least 100 typos per page. Someone could not even copy a library book without making so many errors. Simply unreadable.

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2019

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Cannot read. At least 100 errors per page????? How is this even allowed for sale? Difficult reading when there are not a thousand typos.

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Luke A Bubb

Love how it starts off with the one myth I ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2017

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Love how it starts off with the one myth I truly wanted insight on which is the Oedipus complex. And thats only three pages in cant wait to lea4n more from this great sage of his time!

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Diana

Psychology of the Unconscious

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Jung’s philosophies are always intriguing.

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Great book just difficult to read. Def not a beginners book. So choose wisely if you're new to the subject matter.

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Robert Gordon Ferguson

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2016

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Excellent

Felipe Mazzi

Revela um novo continente a ser explorado.

Reviewed in Brazil on July 25, 2018

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Poderia criticar vários aspectos em que achei que as teorias iam mais longe do que as evidências eram capazes de suportar, mas isso não chega nem perto de superar a imensa erudição que Jung demonstrou nesse texto. Fiquei absolutamente obcecado pelas ideias desse livro, pode facilmente revolucionar o que você considera ser mais importante no pensamento humano, e o mais importante, revela um novo e imenso continente de conhecimento a ser explorado. A sensação é a de ter descoberto uma área inteiramente nova do conhecimento.

A edição é impecável. No índice, para cada capítulo há um extenso "resumo" em tópicos que te permite retomar as teses construídas com tanto cuidado pelo autor, e há folhas em branco ideais para anotações. A fonte e o tamanho da letra são ideais.

Quanto à dificuldade, diria apenas que em alguns momentos é difícil acompanhar a complexa associação que Jung faz entre narrativas mitológicas desconhecida para a maioria das pessoas, textos poéticos e observações clínicas da experiência do autor. Fora isso, desde que se tome o cuidado de registrar as ideias conforme elas aparecem, e atentar-se à sequência dos argumentos, o livro se torna perfeitamente compreensível e prazeroso.

Em alguns momentos, particularmente na segunda metade do capitulo "Symbolism of The Mother and of Rebirth", o livro atinge um clímax argumentativo difícil de encontrar na filosofia do século XX, e cada parágrafo trazia uma ideia mais inovadora e importante do que o anterior.

Se alguém estiver disposto, a leitura do livro pode ser bastante enriquecida se o leitor lembrar das estórias de "João e Maria", "Peter Pan" e "Pinóquio", que apesar de não serem citadas no livro (com exceção da primeira), contém paralelos impressionantes e ajudam na compreensão. Também é útil fazer uma leitura do evangelho de João, particularmente o capítulo 3, em que Jesus interage com Nicodemus. É uma experiência fascinante.

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Jorge Alonso

Perfectas condiciones

Reviewed in Mexico on September 14, 2020

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No lo he leído, lo compré para estudiar. Llegó en perfectas condiciones.

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Hard Read.

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