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Title: Creation Myths by Marie-Louise Von Franz ISBN: 1-57062-606-5 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very readable!
Comment: Although this is a transcription from lectures it deserves the highest grade because M-L von Franz here combines here erudition and interpretative faculty to produce very thought-provoking interpretations of creation myths from all over the world. Von Franz introduces her own theories within the framework of Jungian psychology. C.G. Jung said that M-L von Franz was the one theorist that had accomplished the most congenial development of his own ideas. This book is no exception. It conveys some new ideas, while keeping the reader fascinated from cover to cover. Von Franz subdivides the myths into different categories like: "the first victim", "the two creators", "germs and eggs", etc. and interprets the different categories accordingly. She explains that the incipient of many creation stories seem to be a state of pre-conscious wholeness which is broken in two when "subject" and "object" are created. The book can be read by the layman without foreknowledge of Jungian psychology, but is equally interesting to the professional as creation myths often appear in the individual's unconscious. It also serves as a good mythological reference as particularly interesting creation myths are picked out. This is a fine piece which does not reduce the creation myths into grey two-dimensionality, but holds their mystery in high esteem. /Mats W
Rating: 5
Summary: Insight into the Creative Process
Comment: Marie-Louise von Franz is the most pre-eminent of Carl Jung's disciples, and one of the most respected expositors of Jungian psychology. This Jungian analysis of creation myths is one of her masterpieces. In the Jungian view, creation deals with the threshold between the conscious and the Unconscious. When we create a new "world" for ourselves (by a change in job, relationship, residence, life-status, etc.), we are at this inner threshold. This book uses images from ancient mythological systems to illustrate how a psychologically healthy person approaches the creative process. Although the theme may initially seem esoteric, the author is discussing issues that strike us all at our core.
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Title: Primal Myths : Creation Myths Around the World by Barbara C. Sproul ISBN: 0060675012 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 12 December, 1979 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: A Dictionary of Creation Myths by David Adams Leeming, Margaret Adams Leeming ISBN: 0195102754 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul by Marie-Louise von Franz ISBN: 0875484174 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: 1987 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Psychotherapy by Marie-Louise Von Franz ISBN: 1570626219 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche by Marie-Louise von Franz ISBN: 1570624267 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 16 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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