Has Jung written anything worth reading?
yep
yeah
uh huh
>>7393924
His memoir. Also the Red Book that just came out a couple of years ago.
>>7394280
If you need some explanation of why the red book is the worst place to start, it's his individual record of the years he spend sitting in his study and self-inducing hallucinatory states to explore the hyperspatial dimensions of the collective unconscious via his own. It's filled with biblical allegory and requires a working knowledge of how he thought and someone who's fluent in his descriptive idiom to really take from it what's meant to be taken.
>Obligatory reminder that Jung was a Nazi sympathiser during ww2
Ok with that out of the way-
"Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle" is god-tier alternative reasoning. It lays out an operating model for reality which is totally different to the cause and effect model and would seriously challenge a lot of modern theory if anyone still took Jung seriously
An oft overlooked but equally important work is his "Flying Saucers: A modern myth of things seen in the sky." Difficult to source but nonetheless worth it, Jung was one of the only major thinkers of his time or ever to deal with UFO's not as a problem of real vs. false but as a philosophical question..very intriguing stufff
>>7394033
>The Red Book
>I think I'll start with this one
please don't read the red book until you have read literally everything else he ever wrote....seriously....
>>7394322
what were jung's philosophical positions? objective reality?
>>7394373
If you expect it to fit into a label or an "ism" like that you're about to get bored.
>>7394373
Jungism
>>7394424
>uses extremely general world like "idealist" to describe someone without giving definition of what that word means
Tell us what you think an idealist is and we'll tell you. Literally anyone can be an idealist depending on the definition
>>7394322
>Obligatory reminder that Jung was a Nazi sympathiser during ww2
Thats wrong. Pure misinformation. Jung worked for CIA giving them psychological profiling on Hitler. (seriously)
>>7395556
It has also come to light that Jung operated as a spy for the OSS (the predecessor to the CIA). He was called "Agent 488" and his handler, Allen W. Dulles, later remarked: "Nobody will probably ever know how much Prof Jung contributed to the allied cause during the war."
"During the second world war, [Jung] also worked for the Office of Strategic Services, America's first intelligence agency, having been recruited by Allen Dulles, its Central European representative, who wrote about Jung's “deep antipathy to what Nazism and Fascism stood for”. Jung's analysis, written in 1945, of how best to get the German population to accept defeat was read by many, including General Eisenhower."
>>7393924
I started with pic related and it's been a pretty good intro to his dream theory and collective unconscious in general
