In The Undiscovered Self Jung explains the essence of his teaching for a readership unfamiliar with his ideas. He highlights the importance of individual responsibility and freedom in the context of today's mass society, and argues that individuals must organize themselves as effectively as the organized mass if they are to resist joining it. To help them achieve this he sets out his influential programme for achieving self-understanding and self-realization. The Undiscovered Self is a book that will awaken many individuals to the new life of the self that Jung visualized.
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This is a very important book indeed -- J.B. Priestley
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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). Founded the analytical school of psychology and developed a radical new theory of the unconscious.
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As relevant in todays world of mass marketing and mass production as it was when it was written this volume examines man's relationship with and separation from his social surroundings and questions how much our environment shapes and controls the way we think. Jungs theories of the collective versus the individual are eye opening. One of many arguments that struck me was that the denial of a spiritual self is really a backlash against organised religion. He finally convinced this once hardened agnostic that to truly have an open mind requires accepting and living with an open soul.
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Considering the ambitious scope of this book, I feel it has achieved something truly remarkable. It speaks to a depth in our consciousness many of us remain perilously disidentified with; and its recognition or reawakening is both the premise and purpose of the book. Clearly, a longer and more detailed explication of the underlying theories (or, rather, relative realities) would have made some paragraphs a little less abstract and a little more concrete, but I believe this is the book's strength rather than its weakness, as it invites the reader to see its propositions in a more comprehensive and symbolic sense. In a world obsessed with objectification and externalisation, it is a depth charge to submerge in one's unconscious...
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Basic start point for those who seek within to get out, shows the one and only opponent to fight, the only war there is, the only dance to dance.
Undiscovered due to the illusion we keep intact, which can be used to NOT think for yourself (Bill Dawson, Bute).
A bit tough to start on as your first Jung, try first: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
Read more to design your own visions, Jung is THE non-opinionated writer on the subject not to force the theory onto the reader but let him/her discover his/her own progress items.
Undiscovered due to the illusion we keep intact, which can be used to NOT think for yourself (Bill Dawson, Bute).
A bit tough to start on as your first Jung, try first: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
Read more to design your own visions, Jung is THE non-opinionated writer on the subject not to force the theory onto the reader but let him/her discover his/her own progress items.
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A superb existential and psychological study
In many ways an existential examination of the individuals subordination to the state, whether it is in the totalitarian regimes of what was, at the time of writing, the Eastern... Read more
Published 24 months ago by A. J. Smith
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"A million zeros joined together do not add up to one..."
...says Jung, who, in this slender volume, describes a world of mass politics and trash culture which in its attempt to cater for everyone finds it sustains no-one, leaving masses... Read more
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older jung rambles on
definately not jungs best. general political thoughts on communism and the cold war and the state of religion. get something else.
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Remarkable insight
Not the first of Jung's works that I encountered, but the one that made me love his stuff; the work that actually reached inside me and changed my relationship to the world. Read more
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