The Portable Jung (Portable Library)

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Section 1: The Stages of Life
This section refers to the dynamics of psyche according to Jung. Yes, there is psychoanalysis, incorporated but it's all through symbolic constructs. He speaks of a physiological change in flux with a psychic revolution, meaning

that man's physiology can't not be insinc with man's true instincts. He speaks about the process of thinking (or thoughts) how this is confusing to man, as man continues to change from childhood-to adolescence and then to adulthood. But more importantly, Jung claims somewhere either centered or periphery in our thoughts there are primordial images or archetypes. This is the beginning of what he explains to us as how we are all essentially the same. He uses examples later about hypochondriacs and schizophrenics explaining that though their cognition starts out the same, how they deal with this images isn't.

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LibraryThing member mykl-s

Good selections of some of his thought, some down-to-earth, some almost mystical.

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