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sreymey's review
5.0
It is a book about the subconscious mind and how is affects humans everyday life. This book is very fascinating to look at the hidden motives and meanings behind our actions and feelings. When the mind cannot fully grasp something, it seeks an explanation through symbols. This may be a myth, a religious or mythological image, or a dream. When we understand what a particular symbol means to us, we understand our inner minds better. It’s a way of exploring the unknown…
jpmaguire2's review against another edition
4.0
Solid entry into Jung
Man And His Symbols elucidated Jung's basic principles and mindsets about dreams, symbols, and psychology. The book explores the nature of dreams and Jung's theory that they are revelations of another piece of ourselves, the subconcious. The book.was generally easy to follow and we'll structured.
Man And His Symbols elucidated Jung's basic principles and mindsets about dreams, symbols, and psychology. The book explores the nature of dreams and Jung's theory that they are revelations of another piece of ourselves, the subconcious. The book.was generally easy to follow and we'll structured.
americalovesbooks's review
5.0
Man and his Symbols is a book by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.
Man and His Symbols is the last work undertaken by Carl Jung before his death and describes his influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.
In this book, he examines the full world of the unconscious, whose language he believed to be the symbols constantly revealed in dreams. Dreams offer practical advice, sent from the unconscious to the conscious self.
I am especially fixated on his idea of a ‘Collective Unconscious’. Jung claims that collective unconscious, archetypes, symbols, etc will show up in all sort of studies – social (political, economics, history, art, literature, mythology, religion studies etc) as well as natural (physics, chemistry, biology etc) exactly because everything is studied only through human experience and Jung’s theory tries to describe the ‘human’, the ‘observer’ in there.
Art is pointed out as bringing unconscious ideas and thought patterns that we shape into stories, some of which become myths. Art like singing and painting may be so fulfilling because our ability to connect to our unconscious.
“Part of the unconscious mind consists of a multitude of temporarily obscured thoughts, impressions, and images that, in spite of being lost, continue to influence our conscious minds.”
Man and His Symbols is the last work undertaken by Carl Jung before his death and describes his influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.
In this book, he examines the full world of the unconscious, whose language he believed to be the symbols constantly revealed in dreams. Dreams offer practical advice, sent from the unconscious to the conscious self.
I am especially fixated on his idea of a ‘Collective Unconscious’. Jung claims that collective unconscious, archetypes, symbols, etc will show up in all sort of studies – social (political, economics, history, art, literature, mythology, religion studies etc) as well as natural (physics, chemistry, biology etc) exactly because everything is studied only through human experience and Jung’s theory tries to describe the ‘human’, the ‘observer’ in there.
Art is pointed out as bringing unconscious ideas and thought patterns that we shape into stories, some of which become myths. Art like singing and painting may be so fulfilling because our ability to connect to our unconscious.
“Part of the unconscious mind consists of a multitude of temporarily obscured thoughts, impressions, and images that, in spite of being lost, continue to influence our conscious minds.”