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The contributions of Carl Jung to understanding of the human psyche are immense. Starting as Freud's most famous disciple, Jung soon broke away from his mentor to follow his own lines of investigation and discovery. Many of Jung's ideas are now considered fundamentals in the study of the mind, but other, more controversial theories dealing with the psychological relevance of alchemy, ESP, astrology, and occultism are only now being seriously examined. This condensation and summary of Jung's life and work by two eminent psychology professors is written with deep understanding and extraordinary clarity and, along with its companion volume, A Primer Of Jungian Psychology is essential reading for anyone interested in the hidden depths of the mind.

First published January 1, 1973

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177 reviews209 followers
March 31, 2019
نسبت به حجم کتاب مطالب زیادی گفته میشه. در موراد زیادی نیاز به توضیحات بیشتر در مورد مفاهیم احساس می‌شود. به هر صورت برای از یونگ دانستن، منبع مناسبی‌ست.

در مورد خود یونگ و روانشناسی‌اش، من رویکردهای تجربی‌تر را به روش یونگی ترجیح می‌دهم. گرچه روش یونگ در توضیح و تفسیر روان انسان، حسن‌های فراوانی دارد، از قبیل اینکه خلاق است، اسیر نظریه‌های پیش از خود نیست، تقلیل‌گرا نیست، و بلندپرواز است، ولی فکر می‌کنم در نهایت باید در جایی تصفیه شود و از بند تخیلات صرف و ادعاهای ابطال‌ناپذیر برهد.
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September 29, 2020
نوشته های یونگ به آبشاری پایان ناپذیر از خرد و فرزانگی می ماند، که انسان برای آموختن چیزی جدید درباره خود و جهان مه در آن زندگی می کند، می تواند به طور مکرر از آن الهام بگیرد...
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Author 3 books32 followers
November 14, 2017
This primer lays out Jung’s thinking in a systematic and cohesive way. In a nutshell, the authors say of Jung that we are born whole but, as we develop and operate in the world, we stray from our true self. We emphasize certain parts of our psyche too much and our personality becomes “lopsided.” Jung’s goal is to restore balance by rediscovering the wholeness that was once there but has been lost. This is about self-realization. It’s a “drawing out…of something that is already there in a nascent state.” (1) This is the process of transcendence. Dreams and symbols are the key tools to draw these dynamics out of ourselves, into awareness, so that we can rebalance ourselves.

When unaware, we are driven by hidden forces within. Through therapeutic intervention, deep reflection, and periodic retreats from the world, we regain our lost wholeness. Determinism gives way to teleological causation in which we choose to be who we are meant to be. (2) The psyche operates at three levels. Most are only aware our conscious self, which has ego as its gatekeeper, reflecting what is dominant within the psyche’s four main ways of functioning (thinking, feeling, sensing, intuiting). Underneath lies the personal unconsciousness. It is filled with complexes (clusters or constellations of tendencies) that have a hold over us and push us in various directions. But these rest on the deeper foundation of the collective unconscious that is genetic and universal in nature, constituting our “race” or species memory. It is filled with “primordial images,” “archetypes” that tie inner disposition to see the world in certain ways with objects in the world that correspond to inner need. The archetypes shape “our personalities and behavior.” (3) The persona is our mask, the ideal we present to the world, but it hides our inner self. The anima and animus are our male/female characteristics. The shadow is our animal nature, and the self is “the archetype of order, organization, and unification.” It’s our attempt to be one and whole. We become unbalanced when we, for example, deny the male and female sides of our nature. When we suppress our animal side by accentuating our persona, we decrease “the motive power for spontaneity, creativity, strong emotions, and deep insights.” When we repress our shadow (animal) impulses, we project them unto others.

There are many parallels between Jung’s thinking and that of Darwin (biology) and Schopenhauer (Jung’s favorite philosopher the authors say). The foundation for Jung’s theory, the collective unconscious, is not inconsistent with Darwinian theory (species memories created by mutation and natural selection). Jung’s observations on inborn, variable character-personality types align with Darwin's own thinking. Energy (for Jung, libido is psychic energy in general), energy imbalances, distribution of energy to the various psychic structures, equilibrium, disturbances via energy intake from the world, etc., all might be seen as the tangible evidence of Schopenhauer’s Will as it operates within the psyche.

Though Jung does not use this terminology, the individual’s interaction with the world is dialectical. We operate out of need to do what we must, to be who we need to be. We encounter opposition and conflict (the failure to adapt), which creates tension within as well as without, prompting, ideally, the individual to move toward wholeness (“psychosynthesis”). And some of the Jungian archetypes reflect basic, biological needs. The “shadow” is our animal self (Freud’s id), which contains the needs we seek to satisfy. Because of the shadow self’s conflicts with society, we present ourself to others through our “persona” to conform, thereby masking our shadow self to conform to societal expectations. The mother archetype (and father) represents our need for nurture and protection, and the demon archetype represents all that’s “out there,” real or imagined, that constitutes a threat to what we have and who we need to be.

I think that Jung’s idea of self-realization that presumes a good result for others is wrong. Given our variable, inborn nature, and the role of power to promote or protect the self, he minimizes aggressive tendencies. Aggression for Jung comes from the lack of inner balance whereas for Freud it is inherent to who a good many of us are. In some cases (e.g., sociopaths), it could be that self-fulfillment is completely antithetical to social harmony.

This is the best summary of Jung's thought that I've come across.

(1) The authors write: “Man does not strive for wholeness; he already has it, he is born with it. What he must do throughout his life span, Jung says, is to develop this inherent wholeness to the greatest degree of differentiation, coherence, and harmony possible, and to guard against it breaking up into separate, autonomous, and conflicting systems. A dissociated personality is a deformed personality.”

(2) This is not free choice per se. Rather, it is a choice to be who we really are and who we are meant to be. An inherent end point draws the individual toward itself. Again, as the authors state elsewhere, “The individual begins his life in a state of undifferentiated wholeness. Then, just as a seed grows into a plant, the individual develops into a fully differentiated, balanced, and unified personality.”

(3) While the authors believe that the formation of the collective archetypes can occur through normal evolutionary processes (mutation and natural selection), they comment that Jung believed these were created through Lamarckian processes (experiences acquired in a personal lifetime could be passed along genetically), which could account (via the conflation of personal and collective unconscious) for the extensive number of archetypes Jung saw.
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104 reviews92 followers
April 11, 2017
ایراداتی از قبیل این که وارد دسته بندی بشی و فقط الف رو گفته باشه و گذشته باشه دیده میشه؛ ولی در کل خیلی ساده و منسجم توضیح داده هرچیزی رو که گفته. برای شروعِ یونگ گزینه‌ی خوبیه.
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49 reviews5 followers
September 1, 2020
Tranquilo de ler e bem fácil de compreender a psicologia de Jung.
Me esclareceu algumas questões que eu tinha, por exemplo o por quê de não estudarmos ele e os estudos dele na universidade, como estudamos Skinner, Freud, Köhler, Piaget, etc etc...
Recomendo para quem tiver curiosidade sobre psicologia analítica❣️
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1,678 reviews63 followers
October 26, 2014
Having brushed up on my Freud, I moved on to Jung, who always strikes me as the psychological equivalent of a tarot card reader. That said, I'm far more willing to buy into his theories of balanced opposing forces than I am into Freud's grand conviction that I spent my childhood wanting to make out with my Dad.

As with his Primer of Freudian Psychology, Hall (this time with co-author Vernon Nordby, which has to be one of the great unused hero names of 19th century novels) provides a brief overview of Jung's personal and professional life before launching into a dispassionate examination of his psychological theories and his impact on "modern" (as of 1972 anyway) psychology.

Perhaps I'm more inclined to ascribe to Jung's beliefs (well, more inclined than I am to Freud's) since he comes off, even in this brief overview, as far more erudite than Freud, open to both other lines of inquiry and to life experience in a way that Freud, locked in his office in Vienna, never seemed to be. I'm also inclined to wonder just how Jung would feel about the continued popularity of the Myers-Briggs personality types, which are a rank bastardization of his work.

Overall, this is another great intro by Hall (and Sir Vernon Nordby!), well-organized and lucidly written, but only the tip of the Jungian iceberg. Best for beginners, or those simply looking for a brush-up.
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Author 1 book3 followers
September 8, 2014
A short overview of Jung's ideas about the 8 types of personality and the importance of symbols and archetypes.
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640 reviews29 followers
August 18, 2008
This was the first book I read in an attempt to get my head around Jung. It helped, but I soon discovered that it's best to go to the source: the man himself and his own writings. This was useful as an intro, but for the kind of work I was doing (writing a thesis) more in-depth studies were wanting.
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5,167 reviews1,454 followers
September 26, 2015
A fair introduction to Jung's analytical psychology. Calvin S. Hall also did an introduction to Freud's psychoanalysis. Neither are very demanding.
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68 reviews1 follower
May 26, 2023
O livro se propõe a dar uma visão geral sobre a psicologia de Jung sem una perspectiva crítica, o que por si só é questionável. Esse papel ele cumpre, mas a escolha de exemplos é aplicações dos autores faz toda teoria parecer muito simplista, reducionista mesmo, sem contar que são exemplos totalmente voltados pra uma realidade estadunidense sem noção. Me preocupou eu ficar com uma má impressão de Jung por isso.

Me impressionou muito perceber como vários conceitos de Jung foram cooptados (e provavelmente deturpados) pelo mundo corporativo, desde os testes de personalidade até alguns termos.

Fora isso deu pra me familiarizar com a teoria a um custo de tempo pequeno. Ok.
25 reviews1 follower
April 6, 2025
my experience reading this is rather succinctly described by a sentence on the last page: “again and again, the reader will experience a “shock of recognition”; he will recognize truths he has known but which he has not been able to express in words.”

it was quite the perfect time for me to pick this up; i’ve been thinking about my personality and behaviors quite a bit, and i was stunned by the way jung’s ideas captured my inner turmoil, drive, and confusion. quick read that will be immensely helpful in framing my further self-reflection!
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28 reviews
November 11, 2021
A very practical, concise overview of Jungian psychology. Would recommend for anyone interested in learning more on the subject.
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30 reviews1 follower
February 20, 2021
Over the past few years of consuming somewhat haphazardly-selected readings in cognitive science and psychology, the name Carl Jung has appeared time and time again with increasing frequency, seemingly proportional to just how far down the rabbit hole I've fallen, aware or unaware. However, in the past half year, I became very interested in the work of the clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson, specifically in his work concerning personality. Having made it through the entirety of only one of his lecture series' posted online, titled Personality and it's Transformations, I found the amount of times he referenced Jung finally pushed the desire to search him out specifically up to the conscious. Not knowing where to start, I kept an eye out while browsing through used library bookstores, a twice weekly occurrence these days, for anything Jung and gratefully stumbled upon this book. It took another couple months to crack it for the first time, due almost entirely to my beginning another of Peterson's lecture series', Maps of Meaning, in which his references to Jung seemed to increase seven-fold, mostly concerning symbols.

I don't know much about Carl Jung. Or, rather, I didn't know much about Carl Jung. In honor of the virtue of full transparency (and potentially short-lived, yet quite acute and momentary verboseness), everything I know about Jung came from Alan Watts and, of course, Jordan Peterson. And maybe a few old strung out fellow philosophy majors back in my undergrad. But we won't count those because as far as I know, sobriety was not a shared trait among any of us.
This work is an excellent introduction to Jung. I began with nothing and left with what I felt was far more than just something. I departed with an understanding. An understanding I could take to somebody and feel confident about. While I may be quite the highlight-to-reread nut, I can say with a solid amount of confidence that I retained a great deal of the information contained in this book, even through a first read. And there will be more in the future, I'm sure.
This was an excellent place to start. The only reason I'm throwing four stars at it instead of five is because I have never read any Jung prior to this and, consequently, have no idea how spot on Hall and Norbdy's summarizations are. Obviously they seem to fit the queue enough to push them to the front and warrant them experts, but I wouldn't be able to say that with certainty without standing on the same front.

I have an inkling Jean Piaget is next on this ever-growing list of must-studies but I have a hard time being told what to do. Sometimes, obviously.
3 reviews
February 1, 2011
Absolutely fascinating read about the human psyche. The Anima and Animus provide great insight on how humans (personalities) relate with eachother and ultimately the universe. Have read this extremely thought-provoking "work" multiple times and will continue to do so. Christine
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February 18, 2018
Like many other reviewers, I found this to be a satisfactory, albeit brief introduction to C.G. Jung's thought. For those interested in further reading, like Calvin S. Hall and Vernon J. Nordby, I would suggest Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung and C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse by Miguel Serrano.

Here are some quotes and passages I found interesting from the text (attributed to C.G. Jung):

On Complexes
A man does not have a complex; the complex has him.

On the Artist-Archetype
He is fated to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

On the Self-Archetype
…the self is our life’s goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

On Dreams
Dreams are impartial spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche…they show us the unvarnished natural truths.

The general functions of dreams are to try to restore our psychological balance.

On Psychotherapy
The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport the patient to an impossible state of happiness but to help him acquire steadfastness and philosophical patience in the face of suffering.
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57 reviews1 follower
January 6, 2021
Shall I review the book or Jung?!

The book was written pretty well. For a person like me who was only generally familiar with psychological concepts and of Jungian psychology, it explained everything in simplest terms and with clear and understandable examples. Even though the authors did have a positive bias toward Jung, it did not affect the writing to make it biased, except the last chapter where they represented their own opinions and thoughts about Jung's psychology and the man himself.

As for Jung, I don't think I'll be able to explain my opinion of Jung in here. So I want to make it short. The man was a courageous human and one who searched for truth everywhere, not limiting himself to the accepted ways of searching in his era. His findings might have ended up being controversial, but the search, the way of his being, that's what interests me.
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6 reviews1 follower
December 13, 2021
I picked this one up kind of on a whim and, frankly, enjoyed it way more than I expected to. The author write in a way that (to me) was very clear and didn't read like a textbook, yet I still learned a lot. Having known next to nothing about Jung before picking it up, I felt it was a good introduction. There were several ideas here that I found myself using to describe my everyday experiences, and many seem to be mimicked in some of the research taking place today, though often under a different name.

It is worth mentioning that this was written in the 70s, so there are a few moments where the language is...regrettable. I'm not sure whether that language was the author's or if it was borrowed from Jung himself, though.

Overall this was dense at times but a good read!
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26 reviews
April 17, 2024
"'The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport the patient to an impossible state of happiness but to help him acquire steadfastness and philosophical patience in the face of suffering.'
'Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncrasy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.'"
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57 reviews57 followers
January 4, 2020
Thought Provoking

This book is not like "pop-psychology" books. For being a "primer," I was really impressed with the content in this book. The conscious, the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious are discussed along with symbols, the anima and animus and Jung's definition of personality is discussed.

I definitely had a few moments in this book where I had to stop and think about why I perceive things the way I do.

Because psychology is such a broad topic, it will help me decide which direction to take when I start reading material that is not considered "pop-psychology."

This book was written in 1973 but has extremely valuable information within.

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Grammatical Error Count: 1
Profile Image for Ricardo Dias.
Author 3 books
February 10, 2020
Este livro é pequeno, quando comparado com outros livros. Ainda assim, sintetiza o que de melhor existe de Jung, possibilitando expandir o conhecimento a partir do seu trabalho.
Para quem quiser conhecer o trabalho de Jung, é um livro que recomendo.
Sou suspeito. Adoro Carl Jung.
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13 reviews1 follower
February 2, 2025
این کتاب دومین کتابی بود که برای آشنایی با یونگ خوندم
خیلی روان و خوب بود. از مسائل ساده تر و قابل فهم تر شروع شد و کم کم انتزاعی تر شد.
قسمت قشنگ و جالبش این بود که آخر کتاب توضیح داده که ترتیب خوانش آثار یونگ چطوری باشه که بهترین نتیجه رو در درک روانشناسی یونگ داشته باشه
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3 reviews21 followers
April 17, 2018
No doubt that i got to move on to the next jungian book
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311 reviews149 followers
March 22, 2018
All things considered, June Singer's version remains the most accessible (yet).
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30 reviews10 followers
August 26, 2019
I'm giving this book four stars because it is a good summation of Jung's theories of psychology. I do not approve of his psychological theories, though.
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