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americalovesbooks's review
5.0
Man and his Symbols is a book by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.
Man and His Symbols is the last work undertaken by Carl Jung before his death and describes his influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.
In this book, he examines the full world of the unconscious, whose language he believed to be the symbols constantly revealed in dreams. Dreams offer practical advice, sent from the unconscious to the conscious self.
I am especially fixated on his idea of a ‘Collective Unconscious’. Jung claims that collective unconscious, archetypes, symbols, etc will show up in all sort of studies – social (political, economics, history, art, literature, mythology, religion studies etc) as well as natural (physics, chemistry, biology etc) exactly because everything is studied only through human experience and Jung’s theory tries to describe the ‘human’, the ‘observer’ in there.
Art is pointed out as bringing unconscious ideas and thought patterns that we shape into stories, some of which become myths. Art like singing and painting may be so fulfilling because our ability to connect to our unconscious.
“Part of the unconscious mind consists of a multitude of temporarily obscured thoughts, impressions, and images that, in spite of being lost, continue to influence our conscious minds.”
Man and His Symbols is the last work undertaken by Carl Jung before his death and describes his influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.
In this book, he examines the full world of the unconscious, whose language he believed to be the symbols constantly revealed in dreams. Dreams offer practical advice, sent from the unconscious to the conscious self.
I am especially fixated on his idea of a ‘Collective Unconscious’. Jung claims that collective unconscious, archetypes, symbols, etc will show up in all sort of studies – social (political, economics, history, art, literature, mythology, religion studies etc) as well as natural (physics, chemistry, biology etc) exactly because everything is studied only through human experience and Jung’s theory tries to describe the ‘human’, the ‘observer’ in there.
Art is pointed out as bringing unconscious ideas and thought patterns that we shape into stories, some of which become myths. Art like singing and painting may be so fulfilling because our ability to connect to our unconscious.
“Part of the unconscious mind consists of a multitude of temporarily obscured thoughts, impressions, and images that, in spite of being lost, continue to influence our conscious minds.”
snailofdoom's review
4.0
Do not let the fact that i started this book 7 month ago defer to the fact that it was a delectable read.
Thanks to my my psych prof for the rec
Thanks to my my psych prof for the rec
boginja_opste_prakse's review
5.0
postoji li neki posao da ja naravno posto sam gods favourite girl, prezanimljiva prepametna prebogate simbolike u podsvijesti, budem podvrgnuta nekoj psihoanalizi i da taj psihoanaliticar pise eseje o mojim snovima i fantazijama i bude kao ...ona je postigla cjelovitost....sanjala je veliki san sa 16 godina......tako je duhovno razvijena..... (i naravno da budem placena, da mi to bude full time job)
henziger's review
3.0
Quite a complicated read and at times a bit too difficult for myself to even want to try to understand what is being written (similar to GEB by Hofstadter).
However, after reading it I have a better understanding of the archetypes and I think I have a closer and more active relation to my unconscious, so all in all exceeding expectations.
However, after reading it I have a better understanding of the archetypes and I think I have a closer and more active relation to my unconscious, so all in all exceeding expectations.