A review by ayla_derammelaere
Archetypen by C.G. Jung

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

I have a bachelor degree in psychology (specialized in psycho-analysis) but this is the first book by Jung that I've ever read and I found it difficult. 
I've been reading books written by Freud for a long time and since Jung, at a certain point, had been a student of his, I assumed I would be able to read Jung 'just as easy' as I've been reading books written by Freud.

Jung obviously is a very smart man, combing both psychology, mythology, religion and science in one sentence to come to a conclusion. Many times I needed to reread sentences (and I'm not used to needing to do that) to (partly) understand what he meant. I think I will need to reread this book once I have more knowledge of his theory since now there's a lot I don't think I completely understood.

When I started the book, I thought he was going to provide a list of archetypes that exist and give us examples of different times and places where you can find the archetypes, proving his theory but that doesn't really happen. He talks about a few archetypes and gives some examples but it's mainly an explanation of the theory (or that is what I understood of it at the moment).
I've bought some other books written by Jung and I hope that when reading/read them, I will be more able to understand his theory and come back to this book.