Man and His Symbols | Carl Jung

Man and His Symbols is the last work undertaken by Carl Jung before his death in 1961. The principle aim of “Man and His Symbols” is an introduction to Jung’s work and ideas.

It is an examination of man’s relation to his own unconscious, emphasising the importance of dreams in the life of the individual.

The book was first published in 1964 and is divided into five parts, four of which were written by Jung’s closest associates in the world of analytical psychology.

One of the most important part of the whole book is his idea of individuation, the process by which consciousness and the unconscious have learned to live at peace and to complement one another. This addresses the essence of Jung’s philosophy of life: Man becomes whole when (and only when) the process of individuation is complete.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━

📘 The Book

▶ Man and His Symbols (1964)

📚 Other Introduction Books

▶ Modern Man In Search of a Soul (1933)
▶ Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1961)

📚 Excellent books (in no particular order, choose what interests you)

▶ The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious - Collected Works Vol.9 Part 1 (1969)
▶ Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self - C.W. Vol.9 Part 2 (1969)
▶ Symbols of Transformation - C.W. Vol.5 (1967)
▶ Psychological Types - C.W. Vol.6 (1971)
▶ Two Essays on Analytical Psychology - C.W. Vol.7 (1967)
▶ The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche - C.W. Vol.8 (1969)
▶ Psychology and Religion: West and East - C.W. Vol.11 (1970)
▶ Psychology & Alchemy - C.W. Vol.12 (1968)
▶ Mysterium Coniunctionis - C.W. Vol.14 (1970)
▶ The Red Book (2009)

🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial:

━━━━━━━━━━━━━

━━━━━━━━━━━━━

⌛ Timestamps

0:00 Introduction
1:05 Part I. Approaching the Unconscious - Carl Jung
3:28 Part II. Ancient Myths and Modern Man - Joseph Henderson
4:52 Part III. The Process of Individuation - M.L. von Franz
6:55 Part IV. Symbolism in the Visual Arts - Aniela Jaffé
8:17 Part V. Symbols in an Individual Analysis - Jolande Jacobi

━━━━━━━━━━━━━

🎶 Music used

1. Dark Times - Kevin MacLeod
2. Earnest - Kevin MacLeod
3. Wounded - Kevin MacLeod
4. Sunset at Glengorm - Kevin MacLeod

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

━━━━━━━━━━━━━

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you.

Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!

#carljung #individuation

[Eternalised]

*“The one thing we refuse to admit is that we are dependent upon “powers” that are beyond our control.”*
— Carl Jung

[lovetownsend]

Symbolism is one of the coolest things, it's subtleties that reveal a bigger truth, which psychology is all about.

[MG-bcng]

"People don't have ideas. Ideas have people"

[Zexa]

What a legend, has a dream that told him to do something and he just goes and does it. Legend

[yopoxikeweapescai]

Gotta say at least once on the internet that i consider him one of the greatests mans of the last century and i love his work and persona.

[nevillehenry]

I’m a 25 year old engineer named Henry, who’s stuck due to a continual tension with instinct and anima… That was scary.

[jimmyjames]

“3 motifs: the stone, the animal, and the circle.” I find this claim very interesting particularly as we learn more about Gobekli Tepe. In these 12000 year old structures, we find all 3 present.

[zamaxtechno]

Just barely I saw this book on my parents bookshelf and took an immediate interest in it, after looking through it for a second I got on my phone and saw this video recommended on my feed literallly right after taking a look at the book. I think somethings talking me to read this.

[dylanmateo]

Well done! The art images are intense!

[TheLivingPhilosophy]

I remember coming across this book at a market in Brisbane and it was my first Jung book and it blew my mind. Funnily enough I never read Jaffé's chapter (who is the Jaffé who wrote Memories Dream Reflections with him I now just realised) but now realise that I must return and give it a read again. As ever great work that awakens the thirst for more reading

[kj]

It's a shame people saw his work as mysticism.
Makes you wonder what the world would be like if people stopped ignoring their unconscious.

[somethingyousaid]

It's over the last 13 years or so that I've been gaining these crucial insights about myself. I can only think that it's the unconscious part of my mind informing the conscious part. The process itself feels quite natural to me. Even so, how extraordinary it is.

[alexpacheco]

i want a poster of the Archetypes playing poker

[pavankumarr]

Loved it! Reading and listening about both philosophy and psychology at the same time is exciting; and one cannot deny the striking presence of Nietzschean concepts layered in this book. I loved the explanation, and am excited to read the book now.

[nil]

This is one of my favorite books, you did a really nice job summarizing it.

[onlypearls]

I had a dream that there was a machine called "The Internet, " where people seemingly connected via different ports called "Computers." which they believed themselves as operators of, though they themselves did not exist outside of the machine. In my dream there were millions upon millions of connections being made simultaneously, while still maintaining an individual essence that was differentiated into as many parts as there were connections being made. And in this dream I became lucid, coming face to face with the fact that I had only imagined, what a moment before becoming lucid, seemed to be so real. Confused and frightened by this awakened dream state, I screamed in my bed, and awakened myself at once into consciousness and reality. I rushed from my bed to the table appearing in my dream where the "Computer" sat, intent on discovering that I was not mad. However, upon arriving at the table, there was no computer, and no internet, and no connection to anything, or anyone.

[SavvyEver]

“Words are not reality. Words are symbols of reality.” -KRSOne

[hichamboulos]

Great video and a very rich description box! Congratulations.

[aminberjaouitahmaz]

Amazing as always! Road to 20k subscribers. You earned it!

[PhilosophyToons]

Damn you read and work fast, great vid!