Carl G. Jung – författare

The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred updated images that break down Carl G. Jung’s revolutionary ideas“What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both to psychology as a science and to our general understanding of man in society.”—The Guardian “Our psyche is part of nature, and its enigma is limitless.” Since our inception, humanity has looked to dreams for guidance. But what are they? How can we understand them? And how can we use them to shape our lives? There is perhaps no one more equipped to answer these questions than the legendary psychologist Carl G. Jung. It is in his life’s work that the unconscious mind comes to be understood as an expansive, rich world just as vital and true a part of the mind as the conscious, and it is in our dreams—those personal, integral expressions of our deepest selves—that it communicates itself to us.A seminal text written explicitly for the general reader, Man and His Symbols is a guide to understanding our dreams and interrogating the many facets of identity—our egos and our shadows, “the dark side of our natures.” Full of fascinating case studies and examples pulled from philosophy, history, myth, fairy tales, and more, this groundbreaking work—profusely illustrated with hundreds of visual examples—offers invaluable insight into the symbols we dream that demand understanding, why we seek meaning at all, and how these very symbols affect our lives. Armed with the knowledge of the self and our shadow, we may build fuller, more receptive lives. By illuminating the means to examine our prejudices, interpret psychological meanings, break free of our influences, and recenter our individuality, Man and His Symbols proves to be—decades after its conception—a revelatory, absorbing, and relevant experience.

Illustrated throughout with revealing images, this is the first and only work in which the world-famous Swiss psychologist explains to the layperson his enormously influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.From the Paperback edition.

Return to the Soul of Nature with C.G. Jung—a beautiful collection of essential writings, speeches, seminars, and letters on reawakening our connection to the natural world…and reclaiming our lost wholenessWhat does it mean to live cut off from the earth that nourishes us—and to which we’re inherently, inextricably connected?In this powerful exploration of Jung’s writings on nature, we’re invited to rediscover the beauty, connection, wonder, and awe that we’ve lost in a world of machines, haste, and spiritual severings.From his childhood reverence of mountains and rivers, to time spent at his retreat at Bollingen chopping wood and fetching water by hand, Jung embraced the same wilds he taught, embodying the wisdom that the human soul draws strength from its rootedness in nature, our connection to ancestors, and together with the more-than-human world.Included are excerpts from Memories, Dreams, Reflections, among other, lesser-known works. Across these pages, Jung warns of the costs of our so-called “conquest” of nature: environmental devastation, psychic epidemics, and the breathless exhaustion of modern life. He challenges the illusion that humans are here to dominate the earth, revealing instead that we’ve become possessed by unconscious and unexamined drives.Yet, these essays offer hope, too—and insights on finding our way back to the old paths. By listening to the wisdom of our dreams; respecting the ancient ways; and relearning to see nature as both matter and spirit, we can reclaim our vitality—and access the interdependence with the earth that is our birthright. He shows how our task isn’t to produce, consume, and set ourselves apart from earth, but to reintegrate with it—and to bring our consciousness back into harmony with its deep, instinctual rhythms.

In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, and collaborated with her in the preparation of the text based on these talks. On occasion, he was moved to write entire chapters of the book in his own hand, and he continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961.This edition of Memories, Dreams, Reflections includes Jung''s VII Sermones ad Mortuos. It is a fully corrected edition. From the Trade Paperback edition.