On offer is a VERY GOOD hardcover copy of MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS, conceived and edited by renowned Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, and published by Doubleday in 1964.

The book is packed with more than 500 color and black-and-white illustrations.

This volume has sat on the shelf in my personal library since I bought it in the 70s, and the condition is VERY GOOD. For a book printed 60 years ago, it’s remarkable that the pages are not yellowed, there are no tears, stains, or missing pages, no underlining or highlighting. The spine is solid as well, and the cover is also in excellent shape, shiny and with no tears or discernible damage. In other words, this is a very nice copy of a classic volume. (Note: There is a "From the Library of..." bookplate on the inside front cover -- see photo.)

I’m offering this book at a VERY low price compared to what most other sellers are asking (especially considering its superb condition). Take advantage of it now because someone is going to snap this up!

All photos are of the actual item being offered for sale, with no stock photos. This book is from my personal collection in a non-smoking environment.

Enjoy!

Product Description

The different sections in this book speak for themselves... Jung's own chapter introduces the reader to the unconscious, to the archetypes and symbols that form its language and to the dreams by which it communicates. Dr. Henderson in the following chapter illustrates the appearance of several archetypal patterns in ancient mythology, folk legend, and primitive ritual. Dr. von Franz, in the chapter entitled "The Process of Individuation," describes the process by which the conscious and the unconscious within the individual learn to know, respect, and accommodate one another. In a certain sense this chapter contains not only the crux of the whole book, but perhaps the essence of Jung's philosophy of life: Man becomes whole, integrated, calm, fertile, and happy when (and only when) the process of individuation is complete, when the conscious and the unconscious have learned to live in peace and to compliment one another. Mrs. Jaffe, like Dr. Henderson, is concerned with demonstrating, in the familiar fabric of the conscious, man's recurring interest in - almost obsession with - the symbols of the unconscious. They have for him a profoundly significant, almost a nourishing and sustaining, inner attraction - whether they occur in the myths and fairy tales that Dr. Henderson analyzes or in the visual arts, which, as Mrs, Jaffe shows, satisfy and delight us by a constant appeal to the unconscious.

Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology (also known as Jungian psychology). Jung's radical approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in counter-cultural movements across the globe. Jung is considered as the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is"by nature religious" and to explore it in depth. His many major works include "Analytic Psychology: Its Theory and Practice," "Man and His Symbols," "Memories, Dreams, Reflections," "The Collected Works of Carl G. Jung," and "The Red Book."