The Portable Jung Mass Market – 1986

The Portable Jung Mass Market Paperback – 1986
Author: Joseph Campbell ID: B001RBFU6U

In making this masterful selection from the vast corpus of Carl Jung’s writings, Joseph Campbell has aimed to introduce the elementary terms and themes of analytical psychology, to provide an overall understanding of scope and direction of Jung’s entire works, to enable readers to grasp the bearing of mythic lore upon their own individual psychic processes.

Mass Market Paperback: 660 pagesPublisher: Viking Press (1986)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0140150706ISBN-13: 978-0140150704ID: B001RBFU6U Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.3 x 1.5 inches Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces Best Sellers Rank: #1,104,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #37900 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Psychology & Counseling
The introduction to this volume, written by Joseph Campbell, promises that anyone who proceeds through it faithfully from the first page to the last will emerge with a substantial understanding of Analytical Psychology and a new realization of the psychological relevance of mythic lore to his or her psychological development. Having read its nearly 700 pages from the first to the last, I can attest that it has lived up to its promise. The Campbell introduction provides a good overview of Jung’s life along with a detailed chronology. The English translation by R. F. C. Hull is very readable; however, Jung’s writings are very scholarly and contain a good deal of Latin and Greek. Most of the Latin and Greek is parenthetically translated, but not all. Not being adept at those languages, I found it helpful to have a Latin-English and a Greek-English dictionary available for reference. Although Jung can be very abstruse at times, for the most part his concepts are clearly expressed and supported with concrete examples. The book begins with a selection of works designed to help the novice learn Jung’s terminology and basic concepts. After building the appropriate foundation, it then ranges through a cross section of his life’s work including the psychological aspects of marriage, personality types, art, dream symbolism, science, religion, and Eastern and Western culture. Jung was first and foremost, an empiricist. He offers no metaphysical theories to explain the psyche, but he takes great pains in documenting and correlating its tremendous variety of conscious and unconscious content. He establishes the reality of the psyche as a whole (conscious and unconscious) on its observable effects.
I am not a psychologist. I am a curious reader who wanted to know more about Jung’s psychology. I had not read any of Jung’s work before, and now, having read the book, I feel I have a good grasp of Jung’s major concepts.
Joseph Campbell edits this volume and writes a nice introduction, explaining briefly Jung’s major achievements. At the end, he’s included an outline of Jung’s complete works, which catalogs the amazing fecundity of Jung’s mind. I was hoping that Campbell, hero of mythology that he is, would have included some of Jung’s mythological work in this book, like a clip from "Symbols of Transformation," but he didn’t. What a pity.
After Campbell’s intro, the book consists of three parts: one focusing on Jung’s theory, one on Jung’s application of his theory, and the third part contains some curiosities that demonstrate the range of Jung’s thinking.
(Part I) Introduces Jung’s Big Ideas. The collective unconscious; archetypes; the psychological types (introversion/extroversion and all that jazz). Most of this section is easy and stimulating to get through, until you hit the psychological types, which get very technical. If you think about how the types apply in real life to people you know, it makes plowing through Jung’s dry descriptions a little easier.
(Part II) Jung in action. Campbell gives us a healthy serving of Jung’s dream analyses, which I recommend skimming, unless you’re really into alchemical symbology. The two essays on contemporary life are still fresh.
(Part III) The essay on synchronicity is a mind-bending read, and it makes you suddenly aware of all those little coincidences in life.

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