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Jung believes, in contrast to Freud, that the libido that is, what he calls the genetic libido is broader than the merely sexual libido. He "proves" this assertion through an analysis of the disinvestment of the world by the libido in psychosis. This disinvestment, Jung argues, is so complete in psychosis that it cannot possibly be merely the disinvestment of the sexual libido.

That is, the subtraction of the sexual libido's energy from the individual's engagement with the world could not explain the completeness of the individual's disengagement with the world in psychosis. This seems to me to be a strong argument, if one accepts the premise that neurosis and psychosis can be explained by degrees of investment of the libido. I was less convinced by his contention that as one becomes disengaged with the world, one regresses into oneself such that one's thought processes come to reflect the thought processes of earlier societies.

For one, this is problematic because it assumes that some societies are more "primitive" than other societies. Secondly, it seems a bit outlandish to claim that, somehow, antique Greek myths are lying beneath the conscious mind of, for example, your average uneducated Middle American. It is enough, at least, to assume the claim is correct in order to follow his analysis of Ms.

Miller through the rest of the book. I won't go over his discussions of the importance of the symbols of fire, trees, the sun's going up and down, dragons, sea monsters, treasures obtained at difficulty, etc. All of his arguments are, again, supported by a frankly unbelievable array of examples in literature, mythology, and Jung's clinical practice. In the end, I both was seriously challenged by and really enjoyed this book. I feel like it has given me another vocabulary with which to engage with literature, film, and art.

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I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the subject. Great book just difficult to read. Def not a beginners book. So choose wisely if you're new to the subject matter. Love how it starts off with the one myth I truly wanted insight on which is the Oedipus complex. And thats only three pages in cant wait to lea4n more from this great sage of his time!

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One person found this helpful. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. This book is a must for anyone who wants to know more about Jung. The poetry and mythology are actually more interesting than the psychology. Jung was a brave trail blazer going boldly where no man had gone before. Yet he makes too much of the Oedipus story and this is more Freud's fault than Jung's.

To associate the Oedipus drama, a purely fictional creation, with Western theology is a pretty warped idea. If you can filter out the Jungian sexual obsessions, it is a pretty thought provoking work. I don't agree with everything he says but this book is essential reading in understanding our minds. It isn't always pleasant confronting things unknown about the self but is necessary to improve one's life, so it is hard to say one would like or even love this book in the beginning but I think once the work begins one will come to love the man's thinking.

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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Amazon and Pink Panda should both be ashamed of this 99 cent "edition", though in fairness, I suppose you get what you pay for, and I more or less assume the text is complete. But no pagination, the many footnotes are not linked, and the so-called Table of Contents reduced me to helpless giggling: This public-domain hackwork should be free, not even 99 cents; in 5 minutes a competent secretary could have added the chapter links, and probably in another half hour do the footnotes.

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It's interesting to see an example of the mind of Sigmund Freud. I have heard great thing about him and been wanting to read his books. This one, in particular is a great read. It can be a great start into manifesting your own dreams. Mass Market Paperback Verified Purchase. One can imagine that modern dream research would have interested Freud as much as its reductionist speculations would have amused him. Certainly he'd never have argued that because a patient's stomach hurt during a painful recital of an early memory, this indigestible piece of emotional trauma was "caused" by the gastronomic rejection of a burnt piece of toast eaten just before the session.

And, perhaps, vice versa.


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What he'd have wanted to know was: One can't help but admire the boldness and honesty with which Freud presented his own dreams and associations. We might speculate in hindsight that Irma, the partially cured patient whom Freud tried to talk out of her hysteria, showed up in his dream with throat and stomach symptoms and an illness caused by a bad injection to protest the way he injected women with his sex-etiology theories, thereby in effect silencing their true voice; and smile at Freud's dream of an orator named Lecher, a dream he had shortly after accepting a position in which he did a lot of public speaking about psychology.

But that we can speculate thus we owe largely to the techniques inspired by Freud himself. He was often wrong, but the spirit of his endeavor lives on. What can be said about it? It's the translated work of Sigmund Freud. As a Behavior Analyst by trade, I am fascinated by the formative thinkers, Freud and Jung at the moment. These texts can be a bit daunting to read. The fact that it's translated means lots of extra brain power to make sense of some of the assertions Freud makes, but it's a worthwhile read.

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