/lit/ - Literature

Something other than Jung, please.

>>21584184
Inside Delta Force by Eric L. Haney.

What are the best books on the Celts and the Druids?

>>21314423
No, Jung corrects most of Freud's problems, he gets overlooked because he is awkwardly placed subject-wise. A lot of it is honestly just a consequence of the general turn away from psychoanalysis (which was already misguided) and being overshadowed by Jung. The other half of it is that he is discredited by popular misinterpretations of his work, such as it being a metaphysical theory - he emphatically states that it is not, and abundantly corrects all the misinterpretations people damn him for now.

A third and smaller factor is that his interests are unusual. He entertained things you are not supposed to entertain, things that are threatening to the identity of science. Such as mysticism and fate and such. The very same becomes the driving force of his popularity in those confused subgroups of hippies, crazy people, and whoever OP is talking about - they also misinterpret him, and don't really read him.

Okay there is one more factor I'm forgetting, and this is big, listen up:
Reading Jung with a background in philosophy, especially German philosophy, exposes A LOT of what is going on. Psych majors try to read Jung and find it bewildering. It's because they are missing the tools. What happens here is that Jung takes TOO MUCH EFFORT TO EVALUATE, and few people are going to be inclined to do so.

Jung insists that he is not being philosophical, but partly for the style of his thought and partly for the nature of studies at this time (everything was closer to philosophy, psychology most of all, as a budding sprout out of philosophical soil). But philosophy does a lot for him. Knowing Kant, and seeing him relate parts of his theory to Kant, suddenly made Jung make a lot of sense. Do you have to read Kant to understand Jung? Of course not. But it's an example of how missing context makes it that much harder to access what he means.

TLDR:
- Came at the wrong time, psychoanalysis was shoved out
- Is evaluated on the basis of extreme misinterpretations of his work, which constitute most of his reputation
- Associated with forbidden subjects, such as mysticism
- Takes too much effort to evaluate, for better or for worse
- Steeped in a context that people aren't likely to be informed on, for which his way of thinking won't be grasped at all without an unreasonable amount of effort.

Jung is the shit. An honest, brilliant, and unique thinker. Worth reading for rare perspective on neglected subjects if nothing else.

I would recommend that you pick up a collected works or anthology of Jung's writing like "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious" but here a some selected works that I would specifically recommend.
>Modern Man in Search of a Soul
>Man and His Symbols
>The Red Book
After this you can graduate to Jordan Peterson's works.