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graydon ([personal profile] graydon) wrote in [personal profile] rachelmanija 2016-01-13 11:49 pm (UTC)

Jung is hard work. [1]

You also have to contend with Jung's revision habits; the terminology apparently mutated over his life.

I've seen it seriously suggested you should a)learn the appropriate flavour of German and b)read the editions of the major books in publication order.

That strikes me as unlikely to repay the level of effort unless you want to be a professor of Jungian thought somewhere.

I don't think any of Sabina Spielrein's work is in English, though there seem to be some meta-analyses. I was thinking that might be easier going. Or Marie-Louise von Franz, who I believe does have publications in English.

[1] I think Jung suffers terribly from trying to normalize and/or exculpate just how terrifically messed up he was and just how badly he behaved.

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