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Title: The Jungian Tarot Deck by Robert Wang ISBN: 0-9715591-2-0 Publisher: Marcus Aurelius Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Cards List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Beautiful major arcana, minor arcana unimaginatively done
Comment: My major complaint about this tarot deck: the minor arcana are so unimaginatively rendered. The suit cards merely show the appropriate number of cups, wands, swords, or pentacles. And so the minor arcana cards fail to carry any visual indication of their individual meanings.
The book's explication of the major arcana is informative but feels more heady and less earthy and rooted than Sallie Nichol's excellent book, Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey. I prefer her book to Wang's: hers is more comprehensive, visual, written more creatively with a more curious, personal tone. Yet Wan'gs book is packed with wonderful mythological information. Unfortunately, Wang sources his work more in Jung's original and now outdated formulation of the anima/animus concept than in more recent and less sexist theories such as Gareth Hill's work with Masculine and Feminine. It would also help break through the too-often gender-stereotypical exploration of archetypes to give female examples of "male" archetypes, such as the Hermit/Wise Old Man. Wang fails to take this opportunity to expand our consciousness and inner experience of the archetypes. Then again, insofar as the Magician is viewed as androgynous, containing both anima and animus, it seems another lost opportunity in expanding social consciousness and widening social application of myth not to connect such a figure with the Native AMerican Two-Spirit archetype, which represents a very significant mythological role of gay and lesbian individuals. Yet A strong point: Wang does bring Buddhism into the exploration of the Major Arcana: a nice addition of the East to an originally Western symbolic system.
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Title: Tarot and Psychology : Spectrums of Possibility by Arthur Rosengarten ISBN: 1557787840 Publisher: Paragon House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Forest of Souls: A Walk Through the Tarot by Rachel Pollack ISBN: 1567185339 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot by Rachel Pollack ISBN: 0722535724 Publisher: Thorsons Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Rape of Jewish Mysticism by Christian Theologians by Robert Wang ISBN: 0971559104 Publisher: Marcus Aurelius Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Tarot As a Way of Life: A Jungian Approach to the Tarot by Karen Hamaker-Zondag ISBN: 087728878X Publisher: Weiser Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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