what do you think about Jung?

While reading this book in 2018 I first started dreaming a lot more, a lot of dreams were about symbols, I started questioning a lot and somewhere in the middle of the book I started to experience panic attacks (I had anxiety before), my life turned upside down, I started working on myself, got out of a toxic relationship 2 months after that and at the end everything changed for the better. No major anxiety after that. I am happy. But in the midst of all of that I was afraid to finish the book for another year or so. But I still think of this as one of the most significant books I have ever read, it transformed me and made me go through darkness to find light again. To let go of everything that didn't serve me. Planning to read it again now.

I have just finished the Red Book. Emotionally evocative on many levels, sorrow, joy and bliss. As someone who is naturally introspective, I could not have read any of Jungs work five or ten years ago. I am ready now

I used to check this book out of the library all the time. I found it very interesting. However, the mandala symbol meant nothing to me and I found it strange that he insisted the symbol was so important. His patients dreamed of the symbol all the time, but I never dreamed of it. Later, I dumped Jung. He couldn't prove anything. But I had told someone that Man and His Symbols was my favorite book, and that person found a library discard of the hardback version and gave it to me as a surprise. I felt a little bad about that, but I have the book and I look through it, sometimes. I did have one dream, once, about a kind of mandala. It was a spiral of the brightest light I had ever seen. It descended down from the sky and told me that my time had not yet come. I took it to Jesus. I expect to see him again when I die and he will tell me that my time has come. :)

Thank you my friend. This book is arriving for me tomorrow. I’m hyped.

I appreciate the summary and I want to add that Jung is not for everyone. Also, psychology field is so vast with so many frameworks and anyone that gets into this field will have... well, preferences. Studying Jung takes a lifetime to understand the nuances and subtleties. To add on top of this, no theory in psychology is scientifically demonstrated as all studies (no matter the framework that you ascribe to) show correlations and not cause and effect.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on Gayle Delaney’s book, Living Your Dreams.

Do you think "Approaching the Unconscious" is a good introduction to Jung?

Did you make it to Alchemy by von Franz? If so, what did you think of it in relation to this book?

Good review

This book stays in my bag 🕊️

I disagree with the fact that when meeting someone you know in a Dream means you have to interact diferent or beware around them. What the book implied it that generally that person represents a part of your psyche wich you should pay more attention to.

Isn't it weird that Jung wrote an introductory book to his ideas at the end of his life. Btw I am also reading it after the portable Jung.

I've been just listening to the audiobook. There are a lot of points I really want to invest in, but overly speculative analyses are making me a bit uneasy. Dreams and symbols can never be so concrete and he admits the uneasy texture of dreams but I guess I expected more since I have been advised that Jung is pretty solid for self-help and self-motivation, being different from all the mediocre garbage we have been reading and watching

I have heard there is too much pseudoscience in this book , i wanted to know your opinion

Jun is the base of psychi analysis

Its very cute that the little kid dares to rate an eminence like Carl Jung

Funny how with psychology all they do is measure and quantify. Yet so much of psychology is immeasurable

I don't understand why people are so interested in the works of psychologist like Jung or Freud. If I want to study medecine, I will not search for books that's 50 or a century old, that would be absurd, even if the doctor who had written it was an expert in his days. I am not judging because I don't know so much about psychology but if someone is willing to explain, that would be great.