Jung: A Very Short Introduction - Anthony Stevens

Written by Anthony Stevens
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Abridged

· Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
· Abridged Audiobook
· Release date: 12-26-04
· Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Anthony Stevens argues that Jung’s visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing Western society.

This concise introduction explains clearly the basic concepts of Jungian psychology: The collective unconscious, complex, archetype, shadow, persona, anima, animus, and the individuation of the Self. Anthony Stevens examines Jung’s views on such disparate subjects as myth, religion, alchemy, “synchronicity”, and the psychology of gender differences. He devotes separate chapters to the stages of life, Jung’s theory of psychological types, the interpretation of dreams, the practice of Jungian analysis, and to the unjust allegation that Jung was a Nazi sympathiser.

Carl Jung, the Swiss father of the conscious and unconscious mind, developed extensive and complicated theories of mental illness. He and rival Sigmund Freud pursued parallel efforts in psychoanalysis. Jung’s extensive writings throughout a long professional life started an important reformation in our approach to mental function and malfunction. This book’s vocabulary would challenge a Ph.D., but Tim Pigott-Smith’s mellow voice achieves perfect pronunciation. By giving welcome expression to the dry definitions, his tempered enthusiasm and varying pace add color to a black-and-white text. In fact, the reader’s feeling adds so much vitality to the production that he brings what the message lacked to make it palatable. J.A.H. (c) AudioFile 2004,

I did not break it down into tracks, there are over 170, but included the Naxos pdf. The tracks are timed if you wish to sort them out from the text.