The Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf is not just a book of the sixties, an anthem to the hippies movement of “make love, not war.” It is actually the record of Hesse’s own deep turn inward during a period in which two Jungian analysts played a critical role in both his life and work as an author. It combines the […]
Androgyny: The Opposites Within
“Androgyny is stirring within us.” So claims June Singer in her 1976 book Androgyny, a classic in Jungian studies and the subject of our review. Trained in Zurich, Singer was co-founder of the Jung Institute of Chicago and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, co-author of the Singer-Loomis Inventory of Personality (SLIP)–an alternative to the […]
The Parental Image: Its Injury and Reconstruction
Esther Harding, who had a personal analysis with Jung, was also one of Jung’s inner circle. She was very close to the fire. Everything she has written is in the mode of “the classical school,” as Andrew Samuels described it in HIS now classic: Jung and the Post-Jungians. Some of Harding’s titles include, The I […]
Dynamics of the Self
“Jung has established the idea of man as part of the cosmic pattern. And man, as part of the cosmic pattern, has been given back his dignity as an individual.” Gerhard Adler, Ph.D. Gerhard Adler was born in 1904 and raised in Berlin. He took a doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 1927. And, […]
The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap Into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life: by Jeremy Taylor
The first dream book I read by Jeremy Taylor came out in 1983, 40 years ago. The one under review is Taylor’s final contribution, which came out in 2009, the year the Red Book was published. It is loaded with a career of insights garnered from his lifetime commitment to the psyche and to group […]
Reflections On the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung: by Aniela Jaffé from conversations with Jung
In this review, I am departing from the approach that has guided previous reviews on our website. I am not addressing a “classic” Jungian text. Instead, I am addressing a book that has to do with the origins of a classic, namely Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963). Specifically, this review is about the recent publication of […]
The Illness That We Are: A Jungian Critique of Christianity
John Douley’s 1984 Inner City book is a short (100 pages), heavily endnoted (16 pages) text that successfully captures Jung’s complex perspective on religion and religious experience. The subtitle of this book is as important as the title: A Jungian Critique of Christianity. Much has been written on this subject. This is such a big […]
In Midlife
Forty-one years ago, Murray Stein gave an eight-part course for the Jung Institute of Chicago called “The World of Hermes and the Experience of Liminality,” a title, he confessed, that would probably scare off potential readers if put in book form to the public at large.
The Creation of Consciousness: Jung’s Myth for Modern Man
Forty-two years ago, Daryl Sharp, the publisher of Inner City Books, had a mother of an idea: “I am going to publish nothing but manuscripts by Jungian analysts.”