Jung For Beginners
Jon Platania and Illustrated by Joe Lee
Price
825
ISBN
9788125031673
Language
English
Pages
156
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
158 x 240 mm
Year of Publishing
2007
Series
Territorial Rights
Restricted
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan
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Carl Gustav Jung merged Eastern mysticism with Western psychology, brought scientific respectability to religion, laid the foundation for 'the New Age', and is second only to Freud in influence and importance. So it is easy to see why some people consider him a genius. But others... Put it this way: Some people are so good that all we can do is look up to them. He was a great man who made great mistakes. The two most (in) famous events in Jung's life were his break with Freud and his sojourn with the Nazis. Most books on Jung minimize his Nazi period. Author and psychologist Jon Plantania, finds nazism too hideous to minimize, so he tells this part of the story without pulling any punches. Platania then takes us on a tour of the work that made Jung one of the pillars of modern psychology. And what a body of work it is! Jung's open-mindedness was astonishing, wherever he went - Calcutta, Egypt, Palestine, Kenya - Jung learned something that expanded his views. His open-ended psychology incorporated yoga, meditation, prayer, alchemy, mythology, astrology, numerology, the I ching - even flying saucers! He taught us that psychology and religion can not only coexist peacefully together, but that they can enhance us, inspire us, and complete us.