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Non tutti sanno che Carl Gustav Jung è stato un grande scrittore. O, se vogliamo, uno scrittore tout court. In questo libro, che ha la freschezza di un breviario agile e perfetto, per la prima volta sono raccolti in forma di aforisma brevi formule tratte dalla sua opera, folgoranti battute (di spirito e non) che dimostrano la capacità rara di concentrare un pensiero in pochi giri di dense parole. Jung interroga per noi, attraverso i percorsi più stravaganti, argomenti insoliti, e spesso eccitanti (il diavolo, la vita, il corpo, la colpa, il desiderio, la nevrosi), travalica il ristretto ambito specialistico della psicologia analitica e ci restituisce in una sola frase il ricco senso della sua esperienza umana e intellettuale.

151 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

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C.G. Jung

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Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death.

The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.

Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.

Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the "psychologization of religion", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.

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August 8, 2024
Contenta di averlo letto finalmente. Era nella mia libreria da un po'. Leggerò altro di Jung.
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February 26, 2025
L'esposizione dei concetti chiave della psicologia analitica di Jung sotto forma di aforismi li rende decisamente più facili da comprendere. Consigliato, per chi come me ne sa poco.
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January 27, 2015
Non é una lettura di quelle indispensabili, in fondo questo di Quaglino e Romano é quanto faccio da trent'anni circa a questa parte: annotarmi le frasi che maggiormente mi hanno fatto "lavorare", pensare, a volte pagine dei suoi testi.
Ero curiosa di sapere cosa avevano scelto loro.
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