Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book

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It is saddening that both Jung’s Red Book and this one appeared so late — the Red Book almost a Century after it was written and Lament of the Dead so late in Hillman’s life and career. Sonu Shamdasani is the perfect living dialogue partner for Hillman to have in the talks that make up Lament.

In the same way, religion and Jungian psychology are containers for the ancient unconscious forces in the vast ocean under the human psyche.As editor of the Red Book he knows more about the history and assembly of the text than any person save for Jung. These two - Hillman and Shamdasani - seem to have no idea what other people - people other than Jungians - have been doing with Jung's material. Kahneman continually refers to System 2 as “lazy”: We don’t want to think rigorously about something.

It is a moment that is not our moment and is only partially comprehensible to anyone but the author(s).In the time that Jung worked on the book he came into direct experience with the forces of the deep mind and collective unconscious.

It’s easy to laugh at somebody who claims to have reinvented psychology and can’t even tell you what you do with their revolutionary invention. He realized after his falling out from Freud that his own religious tradition and the available psychological framework was not enough to help him contain the raw and wuthering forces of his own unconscious that were assailing him at the time.

The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers. The skin that Shamdasani has in this game is as an academic while Hillman gets to play the prophet and hero of the new psychology they describe without threat or competition.

The activation rate is seemingly fixed at least others suggested that there is no status linked to the activation chance.The final conversations revolve around what has become of psychology over the decade since Jung began his explorations into the psyche. He has a reputation for keeping lock and key as regards the Jung family archive, and this is still quite present in his commentary. It would have been easy for me to merely critize his failures instead of seeing them as incomplete truths.