I've come around to reading Jung's Red Book again. I come back to it every so often mostly for the imagery and introspection, even though I think Jung as an author is an unreliable interpreter of his dreams and he may fluff up some aspects. I have the version with a bunch of footnotes that help to keep track of the various references to folklore, myth, and esoterica that Jung likes to mention and the illustrations he's made to accompany them. It's not academic, more just introspection into the mind of a curious, sometimes delusional old man who has his faults as much as his endearing, almost childlike moments of whimsy. Get past his history of unethical medical practices, shitty personal history, and some snake oil salesmanship and you can see why he's a compelling thinker.
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I've come around to reading Jung's Red Book again. I come back to it every so often mostly for the imagery and introspection, even though I think Jung as an author is an unreliable interpreter of his dreams and he may fluff up some aspects. I have the version with a bunch of footnotes that help to keep track of the various references to folklore, myth, and esoterica that Jung likes to mention and the illustrations he's made to accompany them. It's not academic, more just introspection into the mind of a curious, sometimes delusional old man who has his faults as much as his endearing, almost childlike moments of whimsy. Get past his history of unethical medical practices, shitty personal history, and some snake oil salesmanship and you can see why he's a compelling thinker.
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