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A review by oihanesaez
Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction by Murray Stein
4.0
★★★★ 4 STARS
I was gonna give it 3 stars up until I reached the last two chapters. It was really instructive and interesting the part of the ego, persona and shadow. You can really see how that would fit in the real world. But then the anima/us part I completely disagree with. I thought the view of the anima/us was a very reduced view of a person and sometimes based on stereotypical behaviours. And also I didnt like how the book claimed Jung was empirical and everything was based on science. But I couldn't see where the empirical part was. It only described the achievements or conclusions which I can understand since the book is literally called 'Introduction' but it would have been nice to add what Jung did empirically to reach these conclusions. And the last two chapters are my realm of physics which I guess I can understand better and gave me more insight and I got a little bit of the taste of the empirical aspect of Jung. Also I found his idea of synchronization really really interesting and having published a work about it with the great Pauli makes me pop my eyes even more. The idea that the psyche and physical world might be a continuum is very intriguing. Overall great book.
I was gonna give it 3 stars up until I reached the last two chapters. It was really instructive and interesting the part of the ego, persona and shadow. You can really see how that would fit in the real world. But then the anima/us part I completely disagree with. I thought the view of the anima/us was a very reduced view of a person and sometimes based on stereotypical behaviours. And also I didnt like how the book claimed Jung was empirical and everything was based on science. But I couldn't see where the empirical part was. It only described the achievements or conclusions which I can understand since the book is literally called 'Introduction' but it would have been nice to add what Jung did empirically to reach these conclusions. And the last two chapters are my realm of physics which I guess I can understand better and gave me more insight and I got a little bit of the taste of the empirical aspect of Jung. Also I found his idea of synchronization really really interesting and having published a work about it with the great Pauli makes me pop my eyes even more. The idea that the psyche and physical world might be a continuum is very intriguing. Overall great book.