Carl Jung Explained

In 1961, a few months before he died, Carl Jung wrote a letter that led back to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. It contains one of the strangest sentences in psychology: spiritus contra spiritum. This video follows Jung from a Swiss parsonage to the Burghölzli hospital, from his break with Freud to the vision-filled self-experiment behind The Red Book, and asks a hard question: when a pattern keeps appearing in human life, have we found a deep structure of the mind, or a pattern our own interpretations keep imposing on it? In this video: Jung’s life, from childhood to the Burghölzli and the word association experiments The break with Freud, and why it changed the direction of psychology The Red Book and Jung’s confrontation with the unconscious Complexes, the collective unconscious and archetypes, with the evidence for and against Persona, shadow, anima and animus, the Self, and individuation Dreams, active imagination and Jung’s method Psychological types and why Myers-Briggs isn’t Jung Alchemy, synchronicity and religion The controversies, including the 1930s and his reputation A fair way to judge his ideas Sources and further reading: Jung, Man and His Symbols (1964) Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962) Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933) Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928) Jung, Psychological Types (1921), Aion (1951) and Answer to Job (1952) Jung, The Red Book (2009) Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970) Shamdasani, Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology (2003) Noll, The Jung Cult (1994) Roesler (2013), “Evidence for the Effectiveness of Jungian Psychotherapy,” Behavioral Sciences Welcome to Simply Explained. #CarlJung #Psychology #Philosophy #Shadow #Archetypes #SimplyExplained