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arj_51's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Really fun and quick read. The illustrations are brilliant and do a great job at making the concepts digestable, particularly in the final third.
anitaashland's review against another edition
5.0
This book is in a graphic novel type of format. It covers Jung’s biography and the main concepts of his work. It is very easy to read and digest.
wbfreema's review against another edition
4.0
not a bad introduction. i love this series. man Jung got really out there later in life.
strajk's review against another edition
3.0
As someone who knew almost nothing about Jung, the book was really hard to understand and confusing to me... After reading few wiki articles and documentary about Jung, the book made sense. But as the introduction to Jung, the book is as confusing as Jung himself.
eleana's review against another edition
4.0
I found some bits confusing but overall this book had lots of interesting concepts.
archos404's review against another edition
5.0
Insight into a creative genius
I had heard about Jung before and some of his ideas, but until this book I didn't know the amazing breadth and insight of Jung's ideas.
I had heard about Jung before and some of his ideas, but until this book I didn't know the amazing breadth and insight of Jung's ideas.
mikuthemuso's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book, it was a great summary into Jung’s ideas.
mveldeivendran's review against another edition
3.0
I've got to say this one may not work very well for people who have less or no knowledge about Jung and his works. However with the graphic illustrations, the book attempts to portray his life and overall radical, spooky (or whatever you want to call them) ideas, theories and field researches in a very brief way. I've recently read his lectures given at Tavistock Clinic, London (1935) as an introduction to the notions of analytical psychology which helped me understand better with the depictions here. As much as I find the work useful, I'm not sure it'd have been fruitful if I directly headed here. So yeah, for a beginner if you ask me, grab a good book of his, understand his basic ideas in his own words ( Either Tavistock Lectures or Memories, Dreams, Reflections would help) and get back here to grasp the overall adventures of his during childhood, with domains like Alchemy, Astrology and others because it would avoid give the readers a sense of oversimplification and triviality.
nyx53's review against another edition
3.0
Definitely an interesting overview, although I feel like the attempt at simplicity leaves some concepts without enough explanation.
terminatee's review
3.0
Book wasn't bad; illustrations/cartoons were appreciated. But Jung's whole body of work seems like "hooey" to me. What would make us think that he has things any more right than anyone else? His theories seem complicated, and I don't know how useful they really are in practice. I know that there are many "Jungian" analysts, and therefore many Jungian "analysands." But does this stuff really work? Why? Because of my lack of background in psychology, I'm not qualified, by any stretch of the imagination, to say one way or the other.
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