Vertical Labyrinth: Individuation in Jungian Psychology (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 20) by Aldo Carotenuto

Vertical Labyrinth: Individuation in Jungian Psychology (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 20) Reviews

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  Loreta

  Galima nemokamai paskaityti archive.org psl.
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  Lee (of Shalott)

  This is definitely a book I would have liked to spend more time with (alas, inter-library loan), for every time I'd pick it up again on the last day to thumb through it just one more time, I'd find something else to catch my attention & spark ideas, to stop me for a moment.
  Carotenuto's understanding of the emptiness caused by stagnant marriage really moved me.
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  Anton

  While there is extremely useful insight that could be applied to many different aspects life he makes incredibly long stretches with some of his reasoning which really put me off. Not to quote anything directly but a similar example of one of his deductions would go something like; "A man has a dream about chocolate, what could this mean? The Latin word for chocolate is scelerisque and the root of scelerisque is sceleris which means crime in Latin. It's likely that the subject has been dreaming about chocolate because he has committed a crime, maybe not in reality but through his own eyes in some way, ie guilt. So now we must look at what could be the cause of this guilt...." and on and on. This type of logic seems ridiculous and irrelevant to me if the subject doesn't know the Latin words for crime or chocolate (which in the book they would appear not to). They are simply dreaming about chocolate or something related to it, not the root of a Latin word which is two words removed.. Anyways, just my two cents