WATCH THIS SHORT VIDEO FIRST BEFORE WATCHING THIS VIDEO: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mdB_odqFnr-UY3k.html It looks like I'm wrong about the Red Book actually being Jung's Red Book. HOWEVER, I think pretty much everything else about my theory holds up. Even if that isn't Jung's Red Book, I think Jung's theories nonetheless fit the movie well. Plus, the evidence that Kubrick was influenced by Jung and psychoanalysis seems quite clear.

Joker even mentions Jung in Full Metal Jacket, when the general is giving him a hard time about the peace sign on his helmet. Joker says something like "The duality of man. The Jungian thing."

You are one of the first people to ever cite "Collative Learing" he's ideas have been plagiarized in the past multiple times and I feel he is an underrated gem. Thanks.

There is another meaning to that RED BOOK and anyone who has ever managed in the hospitality industry knows what the Red Book is for; and Ulman hints at it as well when he talks about his predecessor and later, all the things, or the history of the Overlook. The Red Book is a communication tool between managers, when a shift ends and another begins, the incoming manager reads 'the story' of the day before. It is a history of that property and the things that happened--usually bad things. IRL it might contain complaints , accidents, problems, etc. IRL it might also contain financial/weather, and census information. When you see the size of it--you are seeing a long history of the Overlook. It would contain all the tragedies/accidents, etc. It is all the memories of the Overlook stored away in the unconscious mind of the entity called the Overlook.

Kubrick. The artist that just keeps on giving long after his death. This proves the eternal life of real film making. Using visual aid to educate our psyche

Max, I every once in a while come across something that changes my life. This essay is one of those moments. It may sound hyperbolic, but you just offered me an answer to something I've been looking for for a long time, and I'm not even talking about The Shining. Incredible, man. Incredible.

Clear, concise & vivid. Knowing Kubrick, The Shining probably has 237 different meanings. Great video!

I love how this movie still makes you think after all these years. I miss cinema like this.

A further hint: The hypnagogic state is a realm that is often.....Overlooked. 😳

THIS IS DEEP, i know this because i only understand 1/3 of this video.

I guess the Native American theory kinda makes sense, considering that Jack just randomly spouts that "white man's burden" line at the bar for no reason at all.

(Non important spoiler alert). When the adult Danny Torrance interviews for an orderly job in Doctor Sleep, the Red Book is on the table, and the office at the hospice looks and feels just like the office from the Overlook Hotel.

Excellent work. One thing that no one seems to notice are Jack's hands in the picture. His hands mirror the as above so below baphomet. This movie is more sinister than anyone realizes it.

Leads me to wonder, does the manager know all this when he hires the caretakers, and is there a higher purpose to it...

I always took Jack being in the picture as him being absorbed into the hotel - he was "always there" and will continue to "always have been there" because he is now a part of the hotel's collective consciousness/unconscious. And I thought that the Grady from the 1920's was a representation of the other Grady, as he is now a part of the hotel's unconscious mind. When Jack breaks the illusion of him being a butler at the bar and reminds me that he "killed his wife with and ax and then you blew your brains out", look at how quickly Grady changes. He just radiates hate and disgust towards Jack. I felt like Grady was the hotel slowly stirring awake, angry at who had disrupted its dreaming mind.

This is an excellent video! I never noticed the red book laying on the desk when I’ve watched this movie countless times. Elaborating on a detail like this is pretty awesome, and I really appreciate the effort you put into it. It’s gotten me all curious and interested in psychology and Jung and his Red Book.

The idea of the Overlook being a physical representation of the hypnagogic state is especially interesting when you watch The Shining Forwards and Backwards. The scene at the exact middle of the film is Hallorann receiving Danny’s telepathic communication from the Overlook. Viewed in the Forwards and Backwards edition, this scene visually mirrors itself in a hypnotic, uncanny, dreamlike way. Rob Ager of Collative Learning has suggested that this scene is a dream sequence, as are many of the scenes in the film, and as you discuss, this is the climactic moment of the story in which the characters (Danny and Hallorann) - and by extension the viewer(s) - tap into the collective unconscious of the story. This is also the moment of greatest crisis in the film. Amazing how Kubrick attempted to capture these psychological spaces and sensations, and ultimately did. Thanks for the video!

This is the most accurate description I’ve seen. Understanding the myth makers philosophy helps you to understand almost everything. There’s a reason movies and stories like this resonate so deeply with human masses.

I didn't realize I was watching a 24 minute advertisement for Doctor Sleep!

I never realized how many bizarre details I missed when I first watched this film until reading and watching all these analyses, and dismissed this film as boring. Now I've become more and more anxious, wondering how many such details I've missed in my own life.

Discovered your channel a few hours ago and already hooked. Thank for mixing SH soundtrack and The Shining, all gets together.

I appreciate that you tried to cite me as the one who brought up the red book. It was 4th of July when I posted it on your Silent hill video about the red squares. Great video by the way, also I enjoyed the Always sunny reference in this one. Alex Cox might make another Repoman movie soon he just got the rights back. By the way, Ullman says that most of the artwork is Navajo and Apache, those two tribes were rivals and the name Navajo means the dark ones. Possibly dark and lights spirits roam the halls of the overlook hotel. Isn't it cool that Jack Nicholson's tie in the movie looks just like the hedge maze that isn't in front of the hotel when the entire Overlook is in view?

I love these videos because of them they've sparked my long lost interest in human beings and their psychology and philosophy, thank you Max

"ancestral experience". THAT sent shivers through me. Never ever thought of this, but it makes absolute sense. Hence some extension of deja vu for alot of us as well. FASCINATING.

The Red River is also a river in Northern Vietnam, moving through Hanoi...

Brilliant theory! I should also point out that if you listen to the opening score by Berlioz (Symphone Fantastique) that plays as the Torrance family is driving to the hotel, you'll notice that the sounds of Native American chants and screams were added by Kubrick.

I too fell out of my chair. I encountered the shining and Jung a little over a year ago around the exact same time, fair to say I've never been the same since. I could never really get to the root of why the shining was my favorite film of all time,even after exploring all the themes presented in room 237, there seemed to be an underlying depth to the film that nobody was tapping into, an unrealized thread. This is eye opening and I will definitely spend the following days contemplating the connection of the shining with Jung as a synchronistic even in my life.

Your comment about cycles, repeated patterns, and archetypes throughout existence really struck a chord with me. I've been pondering the exact same thing for a couple months now. Mostly in terms of biology and astronomy. Thinking on these subjects always left me with a certain "strange fear", especially after a certain incident in a friends bathroom involving weed. I digress though. Seeing that most basic human reactions can be summed up with some prevailing archetypes is a strange thought, and in some instances being able to describe cosmic occurrences and the like with basic factors now puts me at a precarious balance of true terror and over the edge ignorance. A sort of at ease midway point. Thanks for the videos and keep them coming :)

*Loved the Silent Hill music for the background ambience. Also really enjoyed the thoughts that explain in depth The Shining clues hidden in plain sight. It's a really good theory to suggest encapsulating three levels of consciousness of places & people; showing how that theory could solve the lingering mysteries of the film*

After reading and watching Collative Learning's take, I find one piece of evidence in the film that is impossible to ignore. Jack Torrance reads _Playgirl_ when sitting in the lobby, an issue with a feature about parents who commit child abuse. This is so specific and out of place that I can't take it to be coincidental. This is not mutually exclusive with your theory, but a theory that claims to tie all the pieces together needs to address that in my opinion.

I gotta say max, your analytical videos have honestly just changed me for the last few months. I delved into Jung after your video on the red squares from silent hill 2, because honestly, I feel like it had the same effect that the red squares had on James in a metaphorical sense. That’s what making the sub conscious, conscious does as it turns out. But my conversations with my best friends got much deeper philosophically. We contemplated the very nature of ourselves on the individual level, and we understood the philosophical implications of that. After that I began familiarizing myself with the 16 archetypes of the MBTI, which has allowed me to understand my primary cognitive functions, how they effect just why I’m so curious about the things that I’m curious about, and why other individuals I’ve met, or characters I’m familiar with behave in the ways that they do, which has helped me reflect off of people much more than I had in the past, which I had struggled to do for a long time while I was going through an episode of social/existential anxiety. Then in August, right before I started my semester at the university I transferred to, I downloaded Detroit become human from PlayStation plus, since it was one of the free games of that month. And I think I figured out why that was the game that was put up for that month after the first play through, when I made the choices to receive the ending that I received. Because it was quite clear that that had a very strong philosophical/moral message that likely would’ve resonated with other individuals as it did with me, many of which likely would’ve been starting college I would imagine, just like me. So I have a feeling that the fact that stoicism is experiencing a sudden resurgence, as well as the likely deliberate placement of Detroit become human on the PlayStation store will have a profound effect on our state in the future. And I have a strong gut feeling that death stranding is also going to have a large impact on it as well at this point, just by looking on the impact that the current state of the collective unconscious. Not only manifesting in the form of this sudden renaissance of philosophical and analytical thought reemerging, but the current affairs that are in the eye of the general public as well. I won’t say that I can accurately predict the future, but I’ve been paying closer attention to the details that I see and experience in the world around me, and waiting until I will find answers that will prove or disprove the implications that that information may potentially have on the world.

Great video, one of the most interesting and enjoyable film theories I've seen in ages. I think it lost me a little at the end (when it tries to explain the photo and links to Doctor Sleep) but overall, really really great, thanks so much.

"All work and no Red Book makes Jack a dull boy"...

Superb, trenchant analysis that nails how artists work. Absolutely outstanding.

I really like how respectful this video is regarding the cited theory. And the fact that it gives a crash course on it at all!

Really fantastic, and I did almost spit out my coffee laughing when you said, "Regardless if Kubrick was one of the few people to read the Red Book..." Funny, because there is zero chance that he didn't read and delve deeply into this book. Kubrick's very essence is about exploration and wanting to "know," and so this video makes so much sense.

This was a great deep dive into a movie I have loved for a long time. Thank you.

I have seen the movie many times and never felt as though Jack hated his son. But very intricate theory, thank you for sharing.

Aww man this is so good, one of the best (if not the best) Shining interpretations I've heard.

Interesting theory, enjoyed it very much! Also learned new things. Thank you for this! Also also, using soundtracks from Silent Hill games was a very nice touch and soothing for this video. The soundtracks from The Shining are so nerve wrecking, that I always get slightly paranoid.

I'm glad you didn't take down this video. It had some great points and was very interesting.

This video blew my mind, you did a really great job.

Wow Max I love the Shining. I've seen all kinds videos about the movie but this comes from a different angle. Thank you I love it.

This is a very intriguing approach to the construct of the movie. Well done!

Yessss collective learning pioneered the shining theories, I feel like Kubrick would appreciate his depth’s. Amazing video!

There's a lot of symbolism about buildings -- especially houses -- being representative of the mind in dream analysis, too. Each room represents a different part of the psyche, like the bathroom is emotional, the basement is the subconscious, etc.

A truly remarkable video. I have been analyzing "The Shining" for years now and a dream I had just a few nights ago solidifies the "Great Mother" theory for me. Uncanny, really.

Blew my mind man! I appreciate the time you took to make this!

The more I read Jung (and other great thinkers, who think “out of the box”), including his The Red Book, the more I understand about myself and the world I am part of. This is both (sometimes) scary (but certainly not nearly as scary as what humans sometimes do to each other out of spite or hate) as well as a consolation. This is a thing I feel I need to do. This is the second video of yours which gave me a real ‘aha-erlebnis’, and that is precious to me. What you say in the first minute of the video about the mind needing to make logical sense of reality (conscious and unconscious, natural and super natural), and going as far or deep as possible with that, made so much sense to me as someone with ASD: wanting to find the deeper (and deepest) meanings and workings of (my) reality is a constant tool (technique, in a Hedeggerian sense?) which I need as to not go mad or sink into desperation about the seeming banality and senselessness of day-to-day Reality (the “whittled down”, culturally relative version of reality, which encompasses everything, microcosmically and macrocosmically, physically and psychologically), where everything is ordered according to a logic that is often rather limited and utilitarian, guided by politics and ideology. (Sorry for the convoluted sentence. I guess it is a mirror of my mind.) P.S. To me it seems there are parallels between Jung’s collective unconscious and Sheldrake’s morphogenetic field. Just a thought.

Max, you released one of the deepest videos in a while. It really helped me to actually know the devil within me (shadow). I struggled to articulate and integrate this aspect to my psyche, but somehow you just poked something very deep enough to understand the cycle and dynamic between the conscious and the unconscious mind. Brilliant work Max! Keep making us fall off our chairs!

I think this is the perfect theory, it takes in everything to have been analysed so far and gives context where there was none previously. It makes all the prior analysis fall neatly in place with this interpretation, even connecting ideas which haven't been linked before. All executed clearly and concisely, very good job sir.

I agree w/ you 100% & these things you explain are exactly what I've thought all these years about The Shining movie. Brilliant vid, all fans of this movie should see this, 'cuz the psychological aspect is the very nucleus of it- thanx so much!!!

I love this video keep up the great work. And u put in my beloved Silent Hill and the one thing that I noticed is the save point in Silent Hill looks like the red book.

"The Shining" move is more complex than I ever imagined.

Brilliant. I love it. It's a fantastic breakdown, even if it is something you've interpreted completely independent of their intention. The beautiful part about art, is that you can glean something this profound from it, and this is quite a genius level concept. I have to watch the film again now. Thank you so much!

Perhaps, the finest, and most well produced theories I've contemplated, yet. Just like Kubrick's work, itself, your production is endlessly intriguing, warranting multiple "re-runs". Thank you VERY much.

Congratulations on another great video that I'm just seeing now, you are one of my favorite youtubers by far and your content is simply one the most distinct in the whole platform, have a nice week

David Lynch, anyone? What you said about hypnagogia sounds a little like Lynch's description of his creative process.

"He" is the conscious mind. "She" is the subconscious mind. -Neville Goddard

Out of all the theories I've seen, this is the best one. Spot on.

You r so right. And I know cause I can understand all you mean and yet my exposure to Jung is limited to the fact that some human being with that name existed in our collective awareness. I don’t know how this relates to what you are explaining, but for the last few days before clicking to your video an idea had just manifested to me without any source I can think of and because of it, I didn’t pursue its meaning till this very moment and now I feel really compelled to try and understand it and see how I can prove it or disprove depending on what I discover after i follow it to some source I don’t exactly know where and when it resides. That uninvited thought was, is, will be that all matter like stones and anything we believe to be unable to be alive, in its atomic core has memory and consciousness and do expirience some kind of life... I will now expand the idea to places...

While I both appreciate the symbolism of Kubrick's film and the thoughts of the characters in King's book, I find it interesting that Kubrick decided that Jack is ready to do the deed before even coming to the hotel. Whereas in the book Jack believes that the hotel is his chance to get his life back on track and remove the sins of his past. The movie coaxes Jack into doing something he was already leaning into, but the book slowly takes over his mind and forces him to do things that he resists.

Most thorough and probably the most plausible/accurate interpretation to date, imho.

Wow this is actually very well presented and makes sense. Great job!

Dude as I been watching this, I loved the silent hill audio creep in and then I noticed the video you have saved called pyramid head who he reallly is, and I love how you brought up the actual game! I love it man that was really cool! The Shining and Silent Hill 1-4) are the best things ever made!!! Thank you for this video!🕯

I always felt that the overlook hotel and Hill House were similar because they both feel alive and personified

The 4k edition of this movie will have us exploring and discovering for decades again. :)

Incredibly interesting video. Thanks for this new perspective on The Shining. Even if you've seen Room 237, this video adds some great interpretations to it.

one of the best videos I have watched in my life, the physcology of this movie is incredible and your video has pointed this out. Thank You.

"How'd you like some ice cream Doc?"

I interpreted Jack being in the photo as being incorporated into the Overlook Hotel. Pretty simple

awesome work you did here !

I'm a big fan if Kubrick and the Silent Hill series. Your essay was a big suprise and great joy to listen to! Never expected such a pairing to be discussed, though you can feel they are alike in more ways than one! I want to ask you. In part, this essay is about the fundamental processes of the mind, and a little about the specific forces portrayed in the film. Which subject fascinates you to make videos more? Understanding the process or the specific portrait of a film? Thanks!

Could you make a simular video about Shelley Duvall? From my understanding, she had a very difficult time on set during the filming of The Shining. It seems it was a very traumatic experience for her. I would like to hear your take on what you think happened to her psychologically while being apart of this film. Thank you!

I'm putting _Maps of Meaning_ on someone's desk in my psych horror masterpiece.

Neat and thorough explanation of your theory. Thanks for sharing.

Your video is FASCINATING. Well done. I love THE SHINING. You now made me want to rewatch the movie YET AGAIN. The intricacies of this movie are more vast than I ever imagined. Kubrick truly put alot of thought into this movie. Again, GREAT VIDEO.

17:07 Interesting theory. I got the impression that Tony was a Spirit Guide* that supported Danny. Tony warns Danny about the nature of the hotel and possesses Danny to help shield his mind from the trauma that would come from his own father trying to kill him. They idea that Tony is a Spirit Guide (a being that often appears as a ghostly Native American) also supports Danny somehow knowing how to obscure his footprints in the maze. * - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_guide

It is a known fact that Kubrick was a super genius. He was an artist that could take another artist's work and embellish and contort it to tell a better story. I have wondered why the greatest writer ever, which King could objectively be considered, has had so few theatrical successes. Art is interpretation. I think King disliked Kubrick's changes because he managed to improve upon it. King in his infinite creative genius has wittingly or maybe even unwittingly created his own universe. How many people in this case can say the movie is better than the book? A lot. And just as a side note, King says the themes of his stories come from his dreams. In dreams, the past, present, and future are often concurrent. So maybe this story isn't just about "A" dream, but dreaming in general. That's why time seems so out of whack in the Shining, cuz it's all happening simultaneously. And maybe the Red Book symbolizes a history of bloodshed. And maybe the guy in the dog costume blowing the other guy represents the fact that Cujo sucked balls.

OMG I was just reading about Jung and looking for modern contextualization on film, literarature or culture in general, then looking for animes that I need to watch after watching NEON GENESIS EVANGELION.... and your channel has it all! Jung and anime like Serial Experiment Lain! I'll be binging your videos men. Thank you!

This is a creative and helpful interpretation of Kubrick’s classic film. Please expand on this at greater length. Good work.

Silent Hill soundtrack in the back! Well done! Edit: Got further in the vid. You've gone full Silent Hill! Well done.

YES! I am OBSESSED with the Shining! Thank you for this!

Great theory. Always enjoy your content!

Fantastic job brother ! Abd thank you for your videos about aspergers syndrom i didnt even know this syndrom exists and i might have had it when i was young or maybe even now

Kubrick: Psychological explaining Supernatural Lynch: Mundane explaining Macabre

I NEVER noticed the Red Book until now! Plus the sign that says “Camera Walk.” Perhaps that is the genius of Kubrick is that you notice something new each time you see one of his films with The Shining being an exemplary example.

This is by far the GREATEST explanation of the Shining I have ever seen!!! GREAT GREAT JOB!!!

This was very interesting. Thanks for posting!

You know it's right when your gut feeling tells you that those pieces as presented here, fit like a glove. This was really good content for any type of journalism or entertainment or video. Awesome thanks!

Yep, sounds like you finally solved the mystery of The Shining. great job!

Well said. Spot on! Your theory is amazing!

Outstanding upload, thank you for sharing, as I have also devoted a great amount of time and effort to probing the occult, kinetic might of the Shining and it's dense subconscious substrate. I'll share a brief anecdote: I am a huge Room 237 fan, and the segment which most resonated with me was John Fell Ryan's, which I felt literally towared over the other theories, and to my great pleasure, we ended up friends on Facebook for a while (we have not spoken in at least 2-3 years now) and had some fascinating private discussions on the film. Ryan's intense hyper focus on Kubrik's effort continued onwards well beyond the release of the documentary. Being an audio/visual artist (Ryan is a performing musician), the overlays discovered through the forward/backwards theory could not have had a more profound impact, the nature of which I should quantify: I believe that these nightmare overlays were absolutely no random occurrence, but I also refused to believe that so many, and of such pointed revance to the plot arc were the product of a conscious effort by Kubrick. It's just impossible, yet they exist, and in a large number of individual pieces which dovetail flawlessly with the scenes they are taken from. The only viable means to explain their existence would have to be a functional expression of Kubrick (and possibly even his cinematographer). As such, they stand as tangible, forensic evidence that supports Jung's theories, and does so in a manner which I've never seen repeated or matched by anyone else's mind. Kubrick was a burning sun of raw genius, and his subconscious mind was easily just as powerful. Thank you! - Donovan

Quick note: Describing Kali as "negative" is a Western misinterpretation. Her essence is the destruction of ego, and the darkness of meditation. Philosophically speaking, there can be no enlightenment without her.

At 4:23 a page from the Red Book is shown and on the top left there is a design that is similar to the painting at 5:44. This painting is also on the top left. This is definitely a far reaching detail but I noticed it so I decided to share it. It’s also worth noting that the carpet designs in the film have a resemblance to Jung’s artworks from the book. There is a large emphasis on red and yellow together as well as green and purple. I’m not an analyst of any sort tho, just a guy with an internet connection

Very interesting and well presented. There's absolutely a thread of what you're theorizing to be found in the film. I think it coexists with a number of other layers of meaning also present in this extraordinary movie by an artistic genius of the highest order.

Brilliant! It looks like The Shining (film) backs up you theory of the Overlook as a locus for the Unconscious. I’ve seen the film 18 times and your insights have good consistency. While living in Boulder CO, I made sure I spent my honeymoon (in 1983) at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park CO, so I could see the inspiration for the interiors of The Shining for myself. (The exterior shots of the Overlook were actually the Timberline Lodge, in the Hood River area of Northern Oregon.)

omg so this is why ghosts keep getting trapped in AHS

Good work. I'm seeing THE SHINING 4K in a cinema two days from now and look for the RED BOOK and ponder your interpretation.

I love both the book and the movie and have probably watched damn near every interpretation video about the movie and I must say that I really like your take on it in particular. The odd thing is that as I listened to you speak, I think that I subconsciously thought the same thing but just didn't realize it, if that makes any sense at all.🤔