Introductory Texts
Here is an introductory stack (1 of 2) for beginning an authentic inner journey with Depth Psychology and Jungian studies.
I have had many requests for this kind of post and it is super hard for me to narrow down and respond to this. Everyone’s depth psychology is different. My approach is emergent, and it has evolved out of a firm foundation which was created from an attentive love for classical study in consort with a great respect for where post-jungian study has taken the classical while holding to a strict anti-bypass, anti-cherry picking, and anti-evasion praxis of critique. We can not do the work without the opposites! To dismiss one, is to get stuck. Below is a list of the books pictured. Amongst other posts, I plan to follow this up with a stack of post-jungian and contemporary works. First, it is extremely important to grapple with the language and truly grow to deeply understand what is being laid out, then we can critique the complexes at work in interpretation, moving forward. Its the maps that matter, as Jung said, “I have my eye on the central fire, and I am trying to put some mirrors around it to show it to others. Sometimes the edges of those mirrors leave gaps and don’t fit together exactly. I can’t help that. Look at what I’m trying to point to!”
Books mentioned:
The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann, Spirit and Soul by Edward Casey, Shadow and Self by Joseph Henderson, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy by Edward Edinger, Encounters with The Soul by Barbara Hannah, Jung’s Map of the Soul by Murray Stein, The Principle of Individuation by Murray Stein, Psyche & Matter by Marie-Louise von Franz, Dreams by Marie-Louise von Franz, The I and not the I by Esther Harding, Animus and Anima by Emma Jung, The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung, The Red Book by Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung, The Dream and The Underworld by James Hillman, Philosophical Intimations by James Hillman, Complex / Archetype / Symbol by Jolande Jacobi, Inner Work by Robert Johnson and The Stillness Shall Be The Dancing by Marion Woodman.
