Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Dreams by C. G. Jung, Carl Gustav Jung ISBN: 0-691-01792-1 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1974 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dreams not only as wish fulfilment
Comment: Carl Jung says he has analysed more than 2.000 dreams per year, a very impressive number by anyone's standards. In his Dreams book, which a very good collection of many of his dreams experiments, he is after demolishing some Freudian's dreams concepts, mainly the one which asserts that the purpose of dreams is to fulfill infantile sexual wishes repressed in the unconscious, which don't find adequate outlet trough conscious activities.
To add content to this dispute, one has only to have in mind that Jung was a very ardent disciple of Freud in the beginning of his career, but the relationship turned sour after 1914 in the figthing for prestige at the foundation of the Psychanalisys in the beginning of the 20th century.
In Jung's view, dreams are not only wish fulfillers, but they are also compensatory vis-a-vis our daily conscious life. So, the purpose of them is to balance our conscious and unconscious life. So, if life is good, dreams are bad and vice-versa. At the end of his life, Jung said in one of his testimonials that by means of a very representative dream he closed a circle, which meant he got a balanced mental life between unconscious and consciousness.
Also, dreams should be taken not as isolated entities, but rather as a series of concatenated manifestations of the unconscious, something which could be represented by the ancient mandalas (Sanscrit for circle) of many peoples from the ancient world (mayas, hindus, polinesians, etc...), where the ultimate end is to attain a balance mind. Jung's theory of the unconscious is, in my opinion, pretty much more attractive than Freud's, specially in what it regards the timelessness of the unconscious and the unconscious collective.
Reading "Dreams" after reading Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams" is a magnificient experience and the winner is surely the reader, who gets the most of two of the most proeminent and polemical psychanalysts of all times.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not only in dreams
Comment: About God, Jung said, I don't believe, I know.
As soon as you read 'Dreams', you will have a complete sense of his amazing insights, not only on the subject matter, but on the complete human pysche. And this includes, as I tried to hint at from the very beginning, the very meaning of our existence.
Perhaps there would not be a Jung today, if there had not been a Freud preceding him. But a completely ignorant educated man here says, having read them both, that Jung's proposal is far more clever, ellaborate, comprehensive and convincing.
Jung was a unique scholar, he had a very distinctive ability to blend a lot of knowledge from seemingly unrelated areas of science into pyschology. His biography is an essential starting point to understand how he managed to develop this quality, which I think was key to his original thinking.
'Dreams' is a book of rare brilliance. Thanks to Jung, for providing a 'basis' for all things.
Rating: 4
Summary: some of Jung's dream stuff in one volume...
Comment: Useful if you don't feel like poring over the Collected Works looking for some of Jung's theorizing on working a dream. You might also check out Jung's Dreams seminar.
 |
Title: Man and His Symbols by Carl G. Jung ISBN: 0440351839 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
 |
Title: Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung, Carl Gustav Jung, Aniela Jaffe ISBN: 0679723951 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
 |
Title: The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung, R.F.C. Hull ISBN: 0691018944 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 18 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
 |
Title: Synchronicity by Carl Gustav, Jung ISBN: 0691017948 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1973 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
 |
Title: Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Gustav Jung ISBN: 0156612062 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1955 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
