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The Collected Writings of Murray Stein - Volume 3: Transformations
Dr. Murray Stein’s prolific career has produced a substantial body of writings, lectures, and interviews. His writings, captured in these volumes, span a wide domain of topics including Christianity, individuation, midlife, the practice of analytical psychology, and topics in contemporary society. His deep understanding of analytical psychology is much more than an academic discourse, but rather a deeply personal study of Jung that spans nearly half a century.
Transformation suggests a profound change in someone’s life, often of a psychological or spiritual nature. It is the emergence of the Self-Imago through individuation. In Volume 3, Dr. Stein examines this developmental process on a personal as well as a cultural level. Great works of transformation are explored, including those of Rembrandt, Picasso, Dante, and Jung. One’s life arc of transformation through the entire life cycle is scrutinized, particularly in the psychological transformation of men. Even the God Image transforms over time and can lead to profound meaning in our journey. The volume concludes with an exploration of Dante’s Divine Comedy and the alchemical transformations found within.
Transformation suggests a profound change in someone’s life, often of a psychological or spiritual nature. It is the emergence of the Self-Imago through individuation. In Volume 3, Dr. Stein examines this developmental process on a personal as well as a cultural level. Great works of transformation are explored, including those of Rembrandt, Picasso, Dante, and Jung. One’s life arc of transformation through the entire life cycle is scrutinized, particularly in the psychological transformation of men. Even the God Image transforms over time and can lead to profound meaning in our journey. The volume concludes with an exploration of Dante’s Divine Comedy and the alchemical transformations found within.
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Published December 20, 2021
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Murray Stein
118 books7 followersNot to be confused with other Analytical/Jungian Psychologist Murray B. Stein
Dr. Stein is a graduate of Yale University (B.A. and M.Div.), the University of Chicago (Ph.D.), and the C.G. Jung Institut-Zurich (Diploma). He is a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts. He has been the president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (2001-4), and the President of The International School of Analytical Psychology-Zurich (2008-2012).
He is a training analyst at the International School for Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland. His most recent publications include The Principle of Individuation, Jung’s Map of the Soul and Jungian Psychoanalysis (editor). He lectures internationally on topics related to Analytical Psychology and its applications in the contemporary world.
Dr. Stein is a graduate of Yale University (B.A. and M.Div.), the University of Chicago (Ph.D.), and the C.G. Jung Institut-Zurich (Diploma). He is a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts. He has been the president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (2001-4), and the President of The International School of Analytical Psychology-Zurich (2008-2012).
He is a training analyst at the International School for Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland. His most recent publications include The Principle of Individuation, Jung’s Map of the Soul and Jungian Psychoanalysis (editor). He lectures internationally on topics related to Analytical Psychology and its applications in the contemporary world.
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May 13, 2025
The Collected Writings of Murray Stein - Volume 3: Transformations
This book has some useful insights into Carl Jung’s ideas, and is generally more accessible than Jung’s own dense and, shall we say, highly associative writing; though there are occasional passages of impenetrability here, too. The book presents Jung’s ideas more as mainstream clinical psychology than Jung’s research reports generally do, and it also has the advantage of including more recent developments in Jungian thought and research; it's more up to date.
I found the passage on Rembrandt to be particularly useful, and Stein’s perspective on Dante’s Commedia was also of interest. The essay on the developmental stages of the male psyche was interesting, though the section on the anima didn’t clarify much.
Overall this book is probably a better way into Jung’s work than reading Jung’s own writings would be.
The Apple Books edition that I read is full of typos.
This book has some useful insights into Carl Jung’s ideas, and is generally more accessible than Jung’s own dense and, shall we say, highly associative writing; though there are occasional passages of impenetrability here, too. The book presents Jung’s ideas more as mainstream clinical psychology than Jung’s research reports generally do, and it also has the advantage of including more recent developments in Jungian thought and research; it's more up to date.
I found the passage on Rembrandt to be particularly useful, and Stein’s perspective on Dante’s Commedia was also of interest. The essay on the developmental stages of the male psyche was interesting, though the section on the anima didn’t clarify much.
Overall this book is probably a better way into Jung’s work than reading Jung’s own writings would be.
The Apple Books edition that I read is full of typos.
April 10, 2025
This is an excellent book.
Murray Stein is an excellent orator. This book reads like a series of oral leactures. The style is warm, flowing, clear and poetic.
The main theme is change and development throughout life. Stein makes good use of the caterpillar metaphor, which after a significant part of its life is transformed into a completely different, delicate species that can fly to the horison - the butterfly. Several chapters in the book are devoted to the stages of development of boys into a grown men. I assume that the stages of development of girls into women are at least mostly similar, but Stein does not discuss it.
A very interesting chapter is devoted to the transformation of the image of God in the bible. This is an original way of thinking about the bible which Stein develops more fully in the book "Analytical psychology and religion".
Murray Stein is an excellent orator. This book reads like a series of oral leactures. The style is warm, flowing, clear and poetic.
The main theme is change and development throughout life. Stein makes good use of the caterpillar metaphor, which after a significant part of its life is transformed into a completely different, delicate species that can fly to the horison - the butterfly. Several chapters in the book are devoted to the stages of development of boys into a grown men. I assume that the stages of development of girls into women are at least mostly similar, but Stein does not discuss it.
A very interesting chapter is devoted to the transformation of the image of God in the bible. This is an original way of thinking about the bible which Stein develops more fully in the book "Analytical psychology and religion".
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