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"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." Carl Jung has written hundreds of books in his lifetime. Some of his works that explained his theories are The Red Book, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Man and His Symbols, and Psychological Types. Most of the works credited to him are written by other people, but are a collection of essays, lectures, and papers that he has written.
"ONE DOES NOT BECOME ENLIGHTENED BY IMAGINING FIGURES OF LIGHT, BUT BY MAKING THE DARKNESS CONSCIOUS." ―Carl Jung |
The Red Book
Recently published in 2009 was the most famous book written by Jung; The Red Book. It was in the form of a journal, and had been a mystery because it was never actually published. It includes mythology and takes the reader through his hallucinations to try to get to the core of his unconscious. He wrote down everything he had experienced, seen, and felt. As he moved from taking notes in little journals, to writing fantasies in big red books, his writing became more professional and more detailed than just psychological journeys in his mind. His voyages included encounters with unusual people who were present in shifting dreamscapes. He filled 205 large pages with calligraphy and rich colored elaborate artworks.
"Jung had become disillusioned with scientific rationalism — what he called “the spirit of the times” — and over the course of many quixotic encounters with his own soul and with other inner figures, he comes to know and appreciate “the spirit of the depths,” a field that makes room for magic, coincidence and the mythological metaphors delivered by dreams." ―Dr. Sonu Shamdasani
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
"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."
―Goodreads.com
―Goodreads.com
Psychological Types
"One of the most important of Jung's longer works, and probably the most famous of his books, Psychological Types appeared in German in 1921 after a "fallow period" of eight years during which Jung had published little. He called it "the fruit of nearly twenty years' work in the domain of practical psychology," and in his autobiography he wrote: "This work sprang originally from my need to define the ways in which my outlook differed from Freud's and Adler's. In attempting to answer this question, I came across the problem of types; for it is one's psychological type which from the outset determines and limits a person's judgment. My book, therefore, was an effort to deal with the relationship of the individual to the world, to people and things. It discussed the various aspects of consciousness, the various attitudes the conscious mind might take toward the world, and thus constitutes a psychology of consciousness regarded from what might be called a clinical angle."
―Goodreads.com
―Goodreads.com
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