Jung split with Freud on the issue of
The Oedipus story as the fundamental myth of humankind and on the issue of the
validity of the religious viewpoint and
Jung came down heavily on the side of the validity of the religious viewpoint and he established that in a book called symbols of
Transformation which was written in 1914 and that's the book that broke, that produced the break
permanent split with Freud and that book
I would say that book has actually been written three times
It was written as symbols of tran.. 4 times written as symbols of transformation which Jung
Extensively revised when he was old and then it was rewritten in a.. in a sense by a student of Jung's called Erich Neumann
Who is also something.. someone I would really recommend Erich Neumann I think is Jung's greatest student
and
He wrote two books, he wrote one called the Origin and history of consciousness
Which is a description of the development of consciousness out of unconsciousness
using the hero myth as a.. as an in.. as a
as a s.. as a ske..
What would you say as a as an interpretive skeleton, so
Neumann viewed the hero myth as
The dramatized story of the emergence of human consciousness out of the surrounding
Unconsciousness in which it was embedded the struggle for consciousness
the struggle of consciousness upward towards the light like a lotus flower
struggles up through the muck and they.. and the water to to lay itself on the surface of the
Water and bloom and reveal the Buddha which is of course what the lotus flower does from a symbolic perspective
for Neumann
The hero's story was the story of the develop.. the successful development of consciousness and the origins of consciousness
The Origin and history of consciousness is a great book
interestingly
Camille Paglia wrote.. read
The origins and history of consciousness. She's one of the few
Mainstream intellectuals that I've ever encountered who read that and commented on it and she believed that it would be sufficient
Antidote to postmodern denigration of literature. She thought it was that powerful a work and I
I
Believe that I, I think it's a remarkable
Look, Carl Jung wrote the foreword to that book and he said in the foreword that it was the book that he wished he would
Have written so sort of like Jung. He wrote. I don't remember how many volumes
Dozens of very thick difficult volumes it was like Neumann was able to
What distill those
Into a single volume statement and so I would also say if you're interested in Jung
The best book to read is the Origin and history of consciousness. It's the best intro into into the Jungian world see Jung is very difficult to -
very difficult to understand it requires a real shift of perspective in order to understand what he's talking about
and
Neumann wrote another book called The great mother
Which is a little bit more specialized in some sense
but it's also extremely interesting because it fleshes out the archetype of chaos and
It's representation as feminine. It's a brilliant book as well.
And
Highly worth.. highly worth reading both those books
Anyways
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