Daryl Sharp J. Gary Sparks $30.00 ISBN 9781894574478 Inner City Books innercitybooks.net A quick visit to any social media venue (the world of quotes attributed to famous people) will verify the continuing celebrity of Carl Jung and his world-changing insights. Historian Arnold Toynbee is quoted less often, but Sparks suggests that he was on a parallel … Read more
Digesting Jung provides readers new to analytical psychology with the main ingredients of Jung’s work and how they might flavor a life. In the book, Sharp covers complexes, archetypes, instincts, the four typology functions, the persona, the shadow, anima/animus, the Self, dreams, projection, neurosis, the analytical process and the way of individuation. Each … Read more
From a talk by Daryl Sharp, publisher of Inner City Books Jung’s ideas are apparently alive and kicking, so let me describe some of the dangers of becoming interested in them: Danger # 1: First and foremost, there is the danger of intellectual appreciation that does nothing to enhance consciousness. The pursuit of information becomes … Read more
Who were the alchemists and why is alchemy relevant to our lives today? Carl G. Jung discovered that the images and processes he encountered in the old alchemy texts mirrored in symbolic form his theories of psychoanalysis and the unconscious. He saw in alchemy a metaphor for the process of individuation – the transformation of … Read more
Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) Swiss psychologist and founder of Analytical Psychology, Jung brought us a rich framework through which we can explore our psyches, showing us how to look within at the most mysterious thing in the universe, ourselves. This is a journey to wholeness, to realizing … Read more
Addiction to Perfection : The Still Unravished Bride: Through case studies, dreams, and myths, Woodman explores the hidden causes of compulsion in the lives of men and women, the search for an illusory ideal of perfection. At the root of these addictive and compulsive behaviours, Woodman sees a hunger for spiritual fulfilment, the need to … Read more
An American Jungian: In honor of Edward F Edinger : Edward F. Edinger was such a significant presence in the worldwide Jungian community that this volume can only begin to assess his greatness as an interpreter of Jung’s work and his dedication to the significance of Analytical psychology—but it well illustrates his worth. This extraordinary … Read more
An American Jungian: In honor of Edward F Edinger : Edward F. Edinger was such a significant presence in the worldwide Jungian community that this volume can only begin to assess his greatness as an interpreter of Jung’s work and his dedication to the significance of Analytical psychology—but it well illustrates his worth. This extraordinary … Read more
Explore love, intimacy and relationships through a Jungian lens: Another Piece of my Heart : with Badger McGee, Sett in His Eros Ways by Daryl Sharp – Another Piece of My Heart is playful and thought-provoking, as befits the author’s style in integrating Logos and Eros while differentiating between the two. Sometimes bawdy and whimsical, often … Read more
Jung sees the dream as the steady endeavor of the unconscious to create the best possible equilibrium in the psyche. It is in the world of dreaming that the unconscious expresses itself, providing us with insight into the way in which we are operating in the world, providing us with insight into our feelings, our … Read more