Comments on: Carl Jung’s Red Book

By: atoms555

atoms555 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:03:06 +0000

Can anybody place Jung with Einstein, historically other than Jung himself? I’m writing a biofiction in which they met over a series of dinners.

Tom atoms55@yahoo.com

By: Meadow87

Meadow87 — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:54:29 +0000

I am a college student….
I love some of the ideas psychology has to offer, i myself am a recovering addict and I love to learn about this disease and even the effects my misfortunes has had on others…. learning about this helps me succeed in staying sober and helping others i am also very happy this book is now available… C.G. Jung has other books as well and he seems like an amazing person who some people look at like he is crazy or strange (I know the feeling) and to see his success makes me believe anything is possible and it makes me strong…. I love this man and most of his ideas wish i could have met him…..

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:03:59 +0000

I havent read the book but as a result of this conversation have put it on the “To DO’ list.

Cheers

Rosemary

By: RonPrice

RonPrice — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:17:05 +0000

I wrote the following influenced by Jun g.-Ron Price, Tasmania
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SHAPING

The individual, according to Carl Jung, is possessed of a set of mythic symbols that relate to him or her alone. They are the by-products of having a unique history.(1) Another way of conceptualizing this idea is in terms of the metaphorical nature of physical reality. In this scheme we each assign a meaning to individual objects that cross our path, from their mythic meanings to their more simple, practical and often quite unadorned meanings. Success for writers and poets is not measured by the popularity of what they write, but by meaning, inward feelings and the simple desire to keep writing. A proactive stance and attitude, a taking what comes that can’t be changed, a sensitive play and utilization of the dichotomies of solitude-social, nature-nurture and activity-passivity and what can be changed all become quite significant. One does not seek a balance; one seeks what seems appropriate, timely, suitable to the spectrum of needs, wants and complex motivations in both oneself and in others in one’s immediate sphere of social interaction.-Ron Price with thanks to (1) Jay Parini, John Steinbeck: A Biography, Heinemann, London, 1994, p. 135.

In Latin fictio means ‘shaping’,
fiction’s first meaning: shaping.
And so I shape. It’s all shaping,
life’s endless material into form,
small forms, page after page,
a literary whole, so many little
things and great vistas and a future
that has only had its first shaping:
a shaping that’s called vision.

Ron Price
15 June 1999

By: jungcurrents

jungcurrents — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:19:29 +0000

I’ve been a clinician for thirty years, see a lot of mentally ill folks, a lot of folks looking for meaning in their lives. Of all the theorists in psychology, Jung is the most useful.

Dreams/fantasy/active imagination are often the best way to understand the way through life
issues.

His writing is a bit dense and obscure, but there are plenty of second generation Jungians (like Edward Edinger and Anthony Storrs, for example) who explain him well.

The drawings in the The Red Book are amazing.

Jung provides a compass to understanding much of the inner world — don’t leave Home without him.

sparker

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Ruling the Inner Chamber « Matrignosis: A Blog About Inner Wisdom — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:06:15 +0000

[...] but they absolutely do. Carl Jung demonstrated this with exquisite beauty in his recently published The Red Book in which he recorded some of his most meaningful waking and sleeping dreams. Everything he did for [...]

By: Usdating

Usdating — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:10:25 +0000

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By: spiritual_emergency

spiritual_emergency — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:50:13 +0000

I am hoping to initiate a discussion at psych central regarding the book: http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=125517

By: Helen Epstein

Helen Epstein — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:16:43 +0000

I read The Red Book as a spectacular contribution to the literature of memoir (see my three-part piece at http://blog.theartsfuse.com/2009/11/23/culture-vulture-reading-jungs-red-book-part-one/comment-page-1/) that goes back to St. Augustine. Of course, few memoirists were as adept artists as Jung. I hope readers will be able to get beyond their various political positions on Jung and deal with the book.

By: Art in NYC – Visual Arts in New York City » The Red Book of C.G. Jung at Rubin Museum of Art

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:23:39 +0000

[...] have more to say when I’ve had more time to spend with The Red Book – but I will say now, you have about 2 months to go see it before the show comes down, [...]

By: gibbs a williams

gibbs a williams — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:55:49 +0000

As is obvious by the omments so far – it is not an easy matter to be objective ither about Jung’s influence both as a man and as an explorer of his inner reality.

I am qaulifid to make this statement as I have been invesigating the perplexities and challenges of th nature and use of meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) for the past 42 years.

Initialy I was unknowingly a defacto Jungian who over the years became more Freudian in attitude to such matters as he nature of spirituality, the nature and acquisition of knowledge and the likes.

My findings are to be published in a book scheduled for release by either late Decemeber of 2009 or early Jan. 2010.

The title is: DEMYSTIFYING MEANINGFUL COICIDENCES (SYNCHRONICITIES): The Evolved Self, The Personal Unconscious, and The Creative Process.

P.S. My intuition is that Alex will like it.

By: Fin

Fin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:15:50 +0000

Jung’s “Man and His Symbols” saved my life, psychologically and spiritually. As an artist, writer, I was observing spiritual phenomena none of my peers could comprehend; and taking the trolley out to SF State, a stranger (student) approached me on the trolley, handed me this book (stated above) and told me to return it the next time I saw him on the trolley. I read the complete book that evening. Even the event of this book being shared, presented to me by a total stranger, was synchronistic, timely. I have the RED BOOK now. It is beautiful, resting atop a stone white table, awaiting me. I can’t open it until I have just the right four hours or so, uninterrupted, a candle lit. I opened it to one powerful image – a spirit energy and this spirit energy in human form. How stellar and poignant was that? We should be so very thankful Jung wrote as much as he did — and now, THE RED BOOK . . . When your cup is filled, fill another’s.

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A page from Jung’s Red Book « orbis quintus — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:45:24 +0000

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By: jewelle

jewelle — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:13:43 +0000

> Could someone please recommend a first book for my study?

Two Essays on Analytical Psychology was lucky for me.