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He has some fascinating ideas about synchronicity

he built his own fucking house you spastic, tangible enough?

>>1680349

Yeah, he has some interesting ideas that borders towards mysticism. But I was thinking about stuff that actually has the potential to be useful from a psychological/anthropological point of view.

>>1680361

...Have you actually read his work?

>>1680369

What if I haven't?

>>1680342
If you want an extremely dumbed down summary of the work of Carl Jung, why don't you just look him up on wikipedia?

>>1680398
>2011
>using wikipedia

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>>1680388

What do you think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Psychology

Start there. Not the best quality, but it's an ok overview of it (look mainly into clinical theories, complexes and unconscious for a properly practical use of analytical psychology; take "psychological types" with a grain of salt at this point, it isn't just type labeling).

If you want to start reading any of it, I recommend looking into the Tavistock Lectures.

>>1680401

oh look, a /g/-tard

>>1680401
I have his complete works sitting on my shelf, if you know, you want to borrow them.

>>1680402

much obliged

>>1680410

Sure. Next time, come back after Wikipedia, if you will? Doesn't hurt to start off somewhere, even if it's there.

Speaking of Jung, I have a copy of "Man and his symbols" I picked up from a thrift store lying on my shelf. You guys reckon it's a good read?

>>1680424
I read it and it's really accessible and interesting..I am more into lacan myself

>>1680424

Well, as of now I've only read Jung's chapter on it, and it was pretty good IMO. Since it's one of his last works, you mightn't even feel you're missing out on any of his points on a first or second read (his prose is much more coherent in a traditionally literary point of view as it was in much previous years), but once you start studying him, that chapter opens up in quite a number of layers.

>>1680428

Pretty much this. Really nice read, and it has them purdy pictures!

>>1680428
>>1680431

Always when I come to /lit/ I'm taken by surprise of the amount of people that fall in the "gentleman and scholar"-category.
Stay classy :)

>>1680428

Have he written anything else that you would say is equally accessible?

>>1680442
thanks bro
>>1680468
I read a book called "A primer of Jungian Psychology" once and it was a good introduction.

He developed the concept of the "collective unconcious." As a contemporary of Freud's, Jung had similar ideas about dreams being a gateway to understanding the unconcious, but unlike Freud, Jung emphasized the cultural significance of the symbolism of dreams.

>>1680468
He also wrote an autobiography titles Memories, Dreams, Reflections. It's really interesting. I read it back when I was in high school, so I'd call it accessible. I don't even remember why or how I got it...I just read it randomly. I think it was a gift because I was interested in psychoanalysis

>>1680498
*titled

>>1680468

As I mentioned before, the Tavistock Lectures were a good starting point (for me anyway), as its then medical jargons are considered general cultural nowadays.

>>1680442

Thanks man!

It seems to me that Wotan hits the mark as an hypothesis. Apparently he really was only asleep in the Kyffhauser mountain until the ravens called him and announced the break of day. He is a fundamental attribute of the German psyche, an irrational psychic factor which acts on the high pressure of civilization like a cyclone and blows it away. Despite their crankiness, the Wotan-worshippers seem to have judged things more correctly than the worshippers of reason. Apparently everyone had forgotten that Wotan is a Germanic datum of first importance, the trust expression and unsurpassed personification of a fundamental quality that is particularly characteristic of the Germans. Houston Stewart Chamberlain is a symptom which arouses suspicion that other veiled gods may be sleeping elsewhere. The emphasis on the German race – commonly called “Aryan” – the Germanic heritage, blood and soil, the Wagalaweia songs, the ride of the Valkyries, Jesus as a blond and blue-eyed hero, the Greek mother of St. Paul, the devil as an international Alberich in Jewish or Masonic guise, the Nordic aurora borealis as the light of civilization, the inferior Mediterranean races – all this is the indispensable scenery for the drama that is taking place and at the bottom they all mean the same thing: a god has taken possession of the Germans and their house is filled with a “mighty rushing wind.” It was soon after Hitler seized power, if I am not mistaken, that a cartoon appeared in Punch of a raving berserker tearing himself free from his bonds. A hurricane has broken loose in Germany while we still believe it is fine weather.

>>1680498
In his autobiography he highlights the falling out between Freud and him--so you get a sense of the differences between their theories and ideas. It also delves into his mysticism.