Jungian reading log essay

Another good introduction to Jung the man is his memoir. As with Man and His Symbols, this book, Memories, Dreams, Reflections began with a publisher’s wish. In the summer of 1956 Kurt Wolff, the publisher of Pantheon books, told friends of his from Zürich of his wish to publish a biography of Jung. [26]

For a beginner student of Jung to tackle any one of these volumes would be like a beginner student of the piano taking up a Beethoven sonata! This essay endeavors to identify and introduce some of the more straightforward writings by Carl Jung (yes! there are such things!) that are both easy to understand and also full of his wisdom.

Likewise, Jung’s Seminar on Dream Analysis has 51 lectures that reveal Jung at his colloquial, informal best. [13] The general collection of Jung’s letters offers both readable English and also insights into Jung writing “off the cuff,” as it were (replete with ribaldry and jokes). [14]

Although he will shrink from no danger in building up his world of ideas, and never shrinks from thinking a thought because it might prove to be dangerous, subversive, heretical, or wounding to other people’s feelings, he is none the less beset by the greatest anxiety if ever he has to make it an objective reality. That goes against the grain.