/lit/ - Literature

I am just getting into Jung myself but I found a book today and was pretty enthusiastic about it:
>Jung and the making of modern psychology: the dream of a science, by Sonu Shamdasani (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

The table of contents makes it look like a really good, historically contextualised overview of Jung's development, which is what I like to start with when getting into a thinker.

>>14682472
Man and his Symbols. Overseen by Jung himself at the end of his life for just that purpose.

>>14682472
The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann
there's even a foreword by Jung himself, praising it in effect as the book he would have wanted to write, had he not been doing the difficult work of pioneering the field

>>14682678
>As I read through the manuscript of this book it became clear to me how great are the disadvantages of pioneer work: one stumbles through unknown regions; one is led astray by analogies, forever losing the Ariadne thread; one is overwhelmed by new impressions and new possibilities, and the worst disadvantage of all is that the pioneer only knows afterwards what he should have known before.

>>14682715
>The second generation has the advantage of a clearer, if still incomplete, picture; certain landmarks that at least lie on the frontiers of the essential have grown familiar, and one now knows what must be known if one is to explore the newly discovered territory.
>Thus, forewarned and forearmed, a representative of the second generation can spot the most distant connections; he can unravel problems and give a coherent account of the whole field of study, whose full extent the pioneer can only survey at the end of his life's work.

>>14682472
>Jungian psychology
Retroactively refuted by René Guénon (pbuh). Read the Upanishads instead, as they are actually a better explanation of the show while having the added benefit of expounding a true metaphysics.

>>14683339
but guenon's reading of the upanishads is crypto-buddhist? if people want to read the upanishads they should read them, not a ripoff buddhist interpretation of them by some neovedantist

>>14683347
>Buddhism
Buddhism was shown to be a deluded false doctrine by René Guénon (pbuh) drawing from the Shankaracharyan (pbuh) retroactive refutation of it.

>>14682472
Psychology is not real. The psyche is a myth

>>14682472
>getting into Jungian psychology
Why? Nobody in psychology takes it seriously.