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ben_sch's review against another edition
3.0
At first this book made me really angry, because there's a section of the book near the beginning where he talks about (sexual/romantic) relationships being easy to get into for men, with the main choice being whether to have mature or immature relationships. I've read other books on masculinity that treat subsections of men as non-entities so was reading warily. Jung then goes on to treat all kinds of men, including those who have not had relationships, those who have been raped and sexually abused, homosexuals [who he pathologizes], with extraordinary compassion, perhaps more than I've seen in any other work.
There isn't a lot of content relating to patients, a lot of it is Jung talking about alchemical symbolism and the anima/animus and dream interpretation.
As for Jung as a person and author, he's growing on me. I have no idea how a person like Jung could be. Jordan Peterson might be closest, but he'd have take LSD for a year and majorly chill out before spending 5 more years wandering the world, living with tribes and different ethnic groups, hitching it, and becoming one with the earth.
There are some essays written by others with records of what he said--- imagine that you ask some guy a question and he responds
"Many souls are young; they are promiscuous; they are prostitutes in the unconscious and sell themselves cheaply. They are like flowers that bloom and die and come again. Other souls are older, like trees or palms. They find, or must seek, one complete animus, who shall perhaps be many in one. And when they find him, it is like the closing of an electric circuit. Then they know the meaning of life."
Dude. Invite this guy to my party.
A random sentence that struck me was "but in my opinion an immature man is quite right to be afraid of women, because his relations with women are generally disastrous". Both in the sense of honoring fears that I've had, and acknowledging that this is more going on than 'fear of rejection', I feel like Jung teaching young men about women would be a profoundly different cultural course, an examination of their own projections, fantasies and demons.
Also a lot of emphasis in the book that adolescent men should stop having sex with their male schoolmates and transition healthily to having sex with women when they grow up, otherwise they'll be homosexuals who are perpetual youths. Times have changed!
There isn't a lot of content relating to patients, a lot of it is Jung talking about alchemical symbolism and the anima/animus and dream interpretation.
As for Jung as a person and author, he's growing on me. I have no idea how a person like Jung could be. Jordan Peterson might be closest, but he'd have take LSD for a year and majorly chill out before spending 5 more years wandering the world, living with tribes and different ethnic groups, hitching it, and becoming one with the earth.
There are some essays written by others with records of what he said--- imagine that you ask some guy a question and he responds
"Many souls are young; they are promiscuous; they are prostitutes in the unconscious and sell themselves cheaply. They are like flowers that bloom and die and come again. Other souls are older, like trees or palms. They find, or must seek, one complete animus, who shall perhaps be many in one. And when they find him, it is like the closing of an electric circuit. Then they know the meaning of life."
Dude. Invite this guy to my party.
A random sentence that struck me was "but in my opinion an immature man is quite right to be afraid of women, because his relations with women are generally disastrous". Both in the sense of honoring fears that I've had, and acknowledging that this is more going on than 'fear of rejection', I feel like Jung teaching young men about women would be a profoundly different cultural course, an examination of their own projections, fantasies and demons.
Also a lot of emphasis in the book that adolescent men should stop having sex with their male schoolmates and transition healthily to having sex with women when they grow up, otherwise they'll be homosexuals who are perpetual youths. Times have changed!
james_z's review against another edition
3.0
Good excerpts from Jung's essays related to the topic of masculine. It is best to pick a few parts that are relevant to your study or interest.
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