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Title: C. G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time by Marie-Louise Von Franz, Marie-Louise von Franz, Marie-Luise Von Franz ISBN: 0-919123-78-3 Publisher: Inner City Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: an extended study in idealization
Comment: The author, who is one of THE most under-rated and under-written-about female theorists who studied under Jung (where is there a substantial biography for her??), is always brilliant to read, her work packed with fascinating insights and an almost superhuman erudition. This book is no exception.
At the same time, however, it gets nowhere near the quality of her other books. Propped up by endless quotes from Jung's supposedly autobiographical MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS, a book I often go back to but always with the knowledge that it's been heavily censored, von Franz sustains a justificatory tone throughout that is embarrassing to read.
At one point, for instance, she deals with the accusation that Jung had anti-Semitic tendencies, perhaps because he had some shadow issues to work on. She quashes this notion strenuously and puts it all down to Jung's "optimism" and tendency to say too much (not to mention his opponents' projections...always a good place to go when defending one's allies). God forbid that Jung should cast a shadow!
It saddens me that von Franz so seldom struck out on her own without checking in with Jung first or crediting him with the tremendous innovations she brought to his thinking. But nowhere is her unwillingness to question Jung more evident here, where scarcely a paragraph escapes the praise piled high on the Great Man's head.
That he was a great man, a truly daimonic genius who gave us the golden key to transpersonal symbolism, does not change the fact that he was a human being who could be narcissistic, irritable, arrogant, impatient, misogynistic, intolerant, racist, bad-tempered, and downright cruel to the women he supposedly loved.
When I write I often refer to teachers who've impacted my insights about human nature; ordinarily, it would be inconsiderate for me to bring in their human flaws and blind spots. But were I to undertake a biography of any of them once they had shuffled off the mortal coil, it would be incumbent upon me not to whitewash them. You will find many interesting observations about Jung's life in this book; but the picture it offers of him is thoroughly one-sided.
Rating: 5
Summary: An inspiring and personal biography of a great man.
Comment: This is Jung from the inside, by one of his most talented and most authentic followers. It is not just the dry facts but deep personal experience. All life is story and this is Marie-Louise von Franz's story of Jung as she knew him. An invaluable work.
Rating: 1
Summary: Unbelievable.
Comment: It's astonishing that one could present a biography of Jung and not deal with the many allegations of unprofessional, irresponsible, and certainly bizarre behaviors that have been advanced about this man. For shame!
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Title: Alchemy : An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psycholog by Marie-Louise Von Franz, Marie-Louise von Franz, Von Franz Marie Louise ISBN: 091912304X Publisher: Inner City Books Pub. Date: January, 1981 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung ISBN: 0440351839 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 August, 1968 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance. Originally Presented As Lectures at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich by Marie-Louise von Franz ISBN: 0919123023 Publisher: Inner City Books Pub. Date: December, 1980 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Jung: A Biography by Deirdre Bair ISBN: 0316076651 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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