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Title: The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung ISBN: 0-691-01894-4 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 18 October, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Closest to the Holy One as Psychologist!
Comment: I have never felt nearly as close to Holiness in reading such Psychologists as Adler, Erickson, Fosdick, Freud, Fromm, or even Wayne Oates as this little gem of Carl Gustav Jung! Early 1980's found me hooked between Fosdick and Freud, still trying hard to bridge the gap between Religious Education and Seminary. My 1986 trip to England's Canterbury Book stores, took me deeply into Carl Jung's "Answer to Job". Recently in delving into sermonic reading for prison inmates, I became hooked by Robert Johnson's "Balancing Earth and Heaven." He took me back into his early bouts as organist and later being exposed to Madame Jung, Dr. Jung, Helen Luke in Zurick and ideas of "synchronicity." Also he referred often to this Gem of "The Undiscovered Self!"
"Most people confuse 'self-knowledge' with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities." I was smack into the stuff of real life-inmates! People measure their self-knowledge by what the so-called average person knows of himself...coming forth as a very limited knowledge. Chap IV's "The Individual's Understanding of Himself" begins: "The contradiction, the paradoxical evaluation of humanity by man himself is in truth a matter for wonder... in other words..."man is an enigma." That Jungian statement opened the door for Robert A. Johnson and Karen Anderson in "Through the Narrow Gate" to use adverbs as enigmatically and implicitly for their repeated efforts to describe their personal crises reflections!
All of this comes out as my "sort-of rebutal" of Mike McGarry's review speaking of Carl Jung as, "not unapproachable and not unnecessarily esoteric." I surely cannot agree with those terms in similiar ways as not being able to relate to my own personal influences from Robert Shaw and Walter Brueggemann!
So much for my near-60th review from a new perspective! Retired Chaplain Fred W Hood
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth reading
Comment: This is essentially Jung's version of "Civilization and its Discontents," a broadly sketched overview of Who We Are and How We Got Here. Jung basically argues for the importance of the individual as opposed to the mob, the latter taking the form of totalitarianism. Despite many references to the Iron Curtain (this book first appeared in the 1950's), it is not really "dated," unless you want to argue that contemporary society has since become immune to the dangers of mindless group-think. Jung's point here has nothing specifically to do with Communism.
Still, I found some of Jung's thought tediously familiar. Let's face it, practically every intellectual from Rousseau to the Unabomber has believed that their contemporaries had somehow lost touch with their true nature, and has had their own ideas about reuniting us all with our Inner Whatever-you-call-it. In its general outline, "The Undiscovered Self" does not exactly represent an advance in human thought--at least not in my view. But Jung does have some compelling insights, particularly his notion (which I cannot help but think is the absolute truth) that human conflicts essentially boil down to the tendency to project our own weaknesses (our "shadow side") onto others. It will, if nothing else, give you something to think about.
Also, this book (in the R.F.C. Hull translation) taught me my favorite word of the day: "chiliastic."
Rating: 5
Summary: BRILLIANT
Comment: This is a great introductory book to one of the best psychologist/philosophers of our time. It is a king of tough read, but not a like his other works. This one can be read (with dictionary of course) as opposed to studied, although I did read it twice. Simply a fascinating book to read. Do yourself a big favor and get to know Jung.
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Title: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Harvest Book) by Carl Gustav Jung ISBN: 0156612062 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1955 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Man and His Symbols by Carl G. Jung ISBN: 0440351839 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung, Carl Gustav Jung, Aniela Jaffe ISBN: 0679723951 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Synchronicity by C. G. Jung, R. F.C. Hull ISBN: 0691017948 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1973 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Dreams by C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull ISBN: 0691017921 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1974 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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