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Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Flamingo S.) is an
extraordinarily frank account from Carl Jung that gives valuable insights into
his theory of the human mind, his life, and his relationship with that other
architect of the unconscious: Sigmund Freud. Jung documents his dreams and
their meaning with a clarity that belies his intelligence. In Freud he
perceives a great man, but one who is in the grip of an immensely powerful
repression. Unable to accept Freud's opinion on the sexual nature of the
unconscious, Jung relates the decisive moments in which he broke with his
mentor and forged his own perspective. Out of this break is born Jung's
intriguing theory of the collective unconscious and its archetypes. Reading
Jung opens up the mind to a whole new way of reading life and literature. Read
this book, absorb it, and when you have done that go read Joseph Conrad's
Heart of Darkness to see just how rich and important Jung's
theory is. |