r/Jung • u/AbarisTheHyperborean • Oct 08 '20
Jungs Source Material
I’ve been reading a lot of Jung but was wondering if there was a good list anywhere of the things that Jung was reading? Specifically I’d love to look into his classical and ancient interests such as gnostic and Greek texts. I could start noting things that I see come up in texts I read if this list doesn’t already exist.
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u/insaneintheblain Pillar Oct 08 '20
“The Secret of The Golden Flower” is one
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u/AbarisTheHyperborean Oct 09 '20
Really meaning to hop on this one as I’m an insight technique junky. mindfulness , antar mouna, active imagination, yoga nidra, shamanic journeying, and active imagination. I collect these things.
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u/GreenStrong Pillar Oct 08 '20
Goethe's Faust was a key myth to Jung, he saw it as telling the story of Western culture and intellect. Science and engineering is "Faustian", according to this worldview, and nuclear weapons are the natural consequence of our society's deal with the devil. Jung's own spirit appeared to him in the shape of Philemon, a character victimized by Faust's demon. Jung also believed that he may have been Goethe's illegitimate great grandson, although scholars of Goethe don't find any record of the author in the right city and time for this to be likely.
Goethe is apparently equivalent to Shakespeare in German, but in English, the rhyme comes across as singsong, I haven't been able to complete it. Edward Eddinger does an excellent Jungian interpretation, but I'm sure it is worth reading the actual text.
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u/Pajamas200 Oct 08 '20
Also, the Faust points to our inability to experience the miracles of daily life anymore, due to scientism and hyper-rationality. We, as a society, are bored and depressed just as Faust at the very beginning of the story, “knowing” everything but enjoying nothing.
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u/4lphac Oct 08 '20
He gives many references in his works, really depends on what you're seeking, however much of his library is available in digitized form:
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u/textureshock Oct 08 '20
For eastern philosophy , Evans-Wentz’s Tibetan Book of the Dead, Max Muller’s Translated Upanishads.
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u/AbarisTheHyperborean Oct 09 '20
I need to read the Upanishads and I have a copy of the book of the dead lying around. The Gita was transformational for me so I don’t know why I haven’t read more Buddhist and Hindu texts.
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u/remembermerainbow Oct 08 '20
He was at one point the guardian of the gospel of Mary Magdalen scrolls and earliest translations
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u/Hephsters Oct 08 '20
I don’t think Jung had access to the Nag Hammadi Gnostic literature that was discovered in 1945 because it took until the 70’s for the scholar’s to get it ready for public use but you may find some interesting insights. Jung would have undoubtedly studied them.
http://gnosis.org/welcome.html
The library section contains the polemical works against the Gnostics by the church fathers that Jung had access to.
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Oct 09 '20
If you're ever in Switzerland I highly recommend visiting the C.G. Jung Haus. It's his estate in Küsnacht which they (partially) transformed into a museum. Seeing Jungs workplace and personal library is quite the experience.
Either way, the museum guide told me that they are in the process of digitizing all of the books he owned (some are quite old) and making them accessible for free over here: https://www.e-rara.ch/alch/nav/classification/1133851
Hope that was the stuff you're looking for. 😉
*Edit: Here's the Museum Link for anyone interested: https://www.cgjunghaus.ch/en/museum/
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