/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10784318]

Hey /lit/, what is the proper way to understand this book?

[Anonymous No.10784356]

I don't think anyone has read it here. I know i haven't. But i read it's pretty hard to find

[Anonymous No.10784378]

>>10784356
>speaking for everybody on an anonymous board
>espousing the idea that a book by an extremely well known author is 'hard to find' in the golden age of digital piracy
>(all praises due to that one volume of poetics by aristotle)

[Anonymous No.10784390]

>>10784318
>>10784356
Got access to a nice edition from the library of the college I go to. It's basically his schizophrenic ramblings with some amazingly beautiful and compelling drawings. He did something like "trance writing", or free association, letting his subconscious dictate what he wanted to write and bringing up everything repressed, fantastic, and archetypal in his subconscious. Or, more accurately, you could call it "active imagination", which I think is what he called it -- trying to make his imagination as active and verbal as possible. Jung had the idea that it was necessary to bring our subconscious to the level consciousness, thus integrating our psyche and becoming whole and complete in a new way, almost reborn. The book is filled with religious, mythological, and archetypal themes and images, as well as some amazingly passion and fiery self-analyses, but, again, is sometimes on the verge of schizophrenia. He writes dialogues between himself and another as if he is talking to spiritual/transcendent/otherworldly beings, or writes as if he is dictating with a spiritual being is telling him, and remains seemingly agnostic about whether these characters are just aspects of his subconscious psyche or real entities outside of him.

[Anonymous No.10784460]

>>10784390
Whats the proper way to go through it though? The book talks about coming into contact with the Anima and looking into your own soul and such but im having a difficult time understanding how youre supposed to do such

[Anonymous No.10784500]

>>10784318
Have you even read Jung's collected works yet? If not I'd recommend before that reading Freud and also the myths that Jung draws from (Holy Bible, Gnostics, Greeks, Norse, Hindu, Buddhist, Occult, Platonist, ect)

[Anonymous No.10784511]

Does anyone have a psychology reading guide?

[Anonymous No.10784521]

>>10784500
considering Jung couldn't fully read hebrew, sanskrit, old norse, etc I find it hard to believe Jung didn't just draw from meme victorian interpretations of world texts instead of actually fully exploring a single tradition

universalism is the ideology of the cancer cell

[Anonymous No.10784539]

>>10784500
Ive read man and his symbols and bought his book on Alchemy is all

[Anonymous No.10784562]

>>10784539
I would recommend reading Modern Man in Search of a Soul and Memories, Dreams, Reflections next. If you still want more after that then you can check out his collected works, you can read in order or just check out whatever interests you.

[Anonymous No.10785147]

>>10784390
>He did something like "trance writing", or free association, letting his subconscious dictate what he wanted to write and bringing up everything repressed, fantastic, and archetypal in his subconscious.
So, poetry?

[Anonymous No.10785323]

>>10784318
I suggest to get the Reader Edition instead because, the facsimile is huge (12.3"x18") and makes reading it uncomfortable, and it's much less expensive. If you want to look at the pretty pictures, you can find an ebook of the facsimile here: http://dlx.b-ok.org/genesis/744000/5989b7d57f08de6c04e5ce00539a268d/_as/[Carl_Gustav_Jung,_edited_by_Shamdasani_et_al.]_Th(b-ok.org).pdf

[Anonymous No.10786209]

>>10784356
I saw the full illustrated version in a library once

[Anonymous No.10786222]

>>10784356
Literally for sale in a chain book store in my city

[Anonymous No.10786272]

>>10784318
>Hey /lit/, what is the proper way to understand this book?
Why do people ask this question. It's in english. Read the introduction, it will tell you.

Also, if you're familiar with the Elder Scrolls mythos, think of the Red Book as analogous to Vivec's 36 Lessons. It is part journal, part psychopomp's travelogue for the reader, and part metaphysics. Like Blake's mythology as well: it is Jung on Jung. If you aren't already familiar with his descriptions of human mind, read something else first.

>>10784356
hey man have you read The Iliad? I heard it's some real estoric shit, pretty hard to find. I know I haven't read it.

[Anonymous No.10786300]

>>10784356
>Thinks expensive means hard to find