A review by smeetfrog
Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung
4.0
Where do you even begin with this?
Jung’s insights laid the groundwork for so much of what I believe in today. It’s a shame that his research is usually dismissed as pseudoscience (you can make that claim about a lot of psychology tbh). His work on the unconscious and the archetypes of the collective unconscious holds so much therapeutic weight for the modern day person. Bogged down by our industrial and technological advancements, we have lost much of the connection early humans had with the psychic mind. So much so that I don’t know if it’s repairable.
I particularly loved the essay on the symbolism of art. Art history embodies the collection of humanity’s symbols, and it’s crazy to think how these symbols that are incorporated into our psyches were not consciously created, but they were images that, by chance, passed through the unconscious into the conscious mind. And it’s wild how they connect nuclear physics and evolutionary biology with all of this as well.
Too tired to even begin extrapolating here.
Jung’s insights laid the groundwork for so much of what I believe in today. It’s a shame that his research is usually dismissed as pseudoscience (you can make that claim about a lot of psychology tbh). His work on the unconscious and the archetypes of the collective unconscious holds so much therapeutic weight for the modern day person. Bogged down by our industrial and technological advancements, we have lost much of the connection early humans had with the psychic mind. So much so that I don’t know if it’s repairable.
I particularly loved the essay on the symbolism of art. Art history embodies the collection of humanity’s symbols, and it’s crazy to think how these symbols that are incorporated into our psyches were not consciously created, but they were images that, by chance, passed through the unconscious into the conscious mind. And it’s wild how they connect nuclear physics and evolutionary biology with all of this as well.
Too tired to even begin extrapolating here.