Marie-Luise von Franz

Carl Gustav Jung

Aniela Jaffé

Jolande Jacobi

Joseph Lewis Henderson

Explores Jung's psychological concepts regarding the nature, function and importance of man's symbols as they appear on both the conscious and subconscious level

Man and His Symbols

Laura Mei

For most people the years of youth are characterized by a state of gradual awakening in which the individual slowly becomes aware of the world and of himself. Childhood is a period of great emotional intensity, and a child's earliest dreams often manifest in symbolic form the basic structure of the psyche, indicating how it will later shape the destiny of the individual concerned. The actual process of individuation — the conscious coming-to-terms with one's own inner center or Self — generally begins with a wounding of the personality and the suffering that accompanies it. This initial shock amounts to a sort of "call," although it is often not recognized as such. One [seeks] something that is impossible to find or about which nothing is known. In such moments all well-meant, sensible advice is completely useless. None of that helps, or at best only rarely. There is only one thing that seems to work; and that us to turn directly toward the approaching darkness without prejudice and totally naively, and to try to find out what its secret aim is and what it wants from you.

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Simon Oosterdijk

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Jose Szucs

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Felix Jamestin

Alice

Yeng Tan

Victoria Bartlett

Joshua Line

For use in schools and libraries only. Illustrated throughout with revealing images, this is the first and only work in which the world-famous Swiss psychologist explains to the layperson his enormously influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.

Aarti Talwar

Raul Popadineti

Man and His Symbols

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