Exploring the Depths of the Human Psyche with Murray Stein Jung's Map of the Soul

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India on Sep 15, 2023

Broos963: Very helpful introduction to many of Jung'd ideas. Very helpful to understand certain terminology before embarking on the journey of reading Jung himself.

United States on Jul 14, 2023

Clive roberts: Murray Stein clears a path through the seemingly overwhelming clutter that readers like myself that are new to Jung can face by offering a steadying hand with which to take one's first steps. I particularly found the development of the Persona and its interaction with the shadow extremely enlightening. And will be reading further into this area alongside the Anima and Animus archetypes—a fascinating and worthwhile read.

United Kingdom on Apr 25, 2023

Dr. No: This was an excellent introduction to Jung’s works and thinking. Easy to read and concise.

United States on Sep 06, 2022

Gats: Il migliore che abbia letto su jung , chiaro scorrevole, entusiasmante
Molte cose che mi sfuggivano ora hanno una comprensione

Italy on Aug 24, 2022

clogankelly: I covered much of this in university psychology class years ago, so decided to recently reread it again. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, since the chapters are reasonably concise. Jung's theories can be incredibly difficult and complex, yet they are presented in an understandable manner in this text. The theories that inspired my thinking and changed my understanding of the world back in university still stand up for me today. I am glad I went through this again. I highly recommend this as a wonderful starting point to the thoughts and beliefs of Jung.

United States on Jun 25, 2022

DrDWilliams: This is a nice overview of the key features of Jung’s thought. Stein lays the groundwork for digging more deeply into the Jungian view of personhood accessibly. Stein does a good job distinguishing frequently used terms like “constellating” and terms that in more common parlance seem to mean one thing, but are used differently by Jung, such as “ego” and “self.”

I purchased both the kindle and the audible versions. The reader on the audible production is not the best. He reads a tad too fast (such that slowing down the narration on the Kindle Fire is too slow and normal speed too fast) and tends to end each sentence on an upward inflection. This gives the narrated version of the book a kind of continuous sense of urgency that does not lend itself to contemplation.

The kindle version of the text is fine. While I didn’t find the illustrations toward the end of the text particularly explanatory, at least they showed up well on the device, unlike the way illustrations sometimes are frustratingly produced in kindle versions. I appreciated that.

United States on Jan 01, 2021

Harvey L. Shepherd: This book, a sort of handbook to the psychology of the late C.G. Jung, was first published in 1998 but is perhaps even more relevant today than when it was written. Written by Murray Stein, a Jungian analyst of considerable prominence in his field, who began serious study of Jung just after Jung died, this book presents Jung as a visionary but also as a more systematic thinker than many people think when encountering the complexity of Jung's writings.
This book thus complements in a special way the many fine introductions that already existed to Jung's work.
Restating classical Jungian approaches in a modern context, it also complements some of the efforts of other writers to re-vision his ideas in the past two decades. Also some readers who have been captivated by the imagery of Jung's Red Book since its posthumous publication in 2012 may find this book a handy if demanding summary of the psychology Jung made of these images.
Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction also inspired recent music of the Korean K-pop R&B band BTS, which in turn inspired a new book by Stein published in 2020 by Chiron Publications. It's called Map of the Soul: 7: Persona, Shadow and Ego in...

Canada on Oct 20, 2020

Elephantschild: Stein's book is remarkably clear and well organised. The author states up front that Jung was more of a bold than a systematic thinker, to prepare the reader for a certain lack of coherence in the description of psychic structure and dynamics that follows. It is not always clear if a certain incoherence comes from Stein or Jung. The most convincing parts are the section on ego, on the persona, on the shadow, and on the complexes, what they are, how they are formed, how they are distributed between conscious and unconscious. On the anima/animus Stein apparently can't do much, but he confuses things unnecessarily by devoting almost a full chapter to what turns out to have been an early concept of Jung's which he later abandoned (where the animus/anima looked very like what Jung later conceptualised as the shadow), and saying little about Jung's mature thought on the subject. Are they archetypes, complexes, an 'attitude' towards archetypes and complexes (for whatever that means), to what extent and how are they still considered an opposite polarity to the persona ? Why shouldn't each person have both animus and anima ? I've read it twice, and silly me, I still don't know.
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France on Jan 19, 2017

sirjulianmontague: A ludid dreamer returning to a Familiar dark valley surrounded by blooding mountains and errie shadows would i suspect benefit enormously from the chance discovery of a map showing a way out of the labyrinth. Such night walkers as jung and the buddha represent the best articulation of the minds capacity to liberate itself from its own compelling apparency.....ther only question or doubt i have is if one can settle for anothers version of what liberaration is. i loved the synchronicity chapters. The secret acasual relationship that exist between the perceptual cracks of apparent perceptual reality. The mind i suspects represents our darkest dreams and so yes it seems pretty amazing to discover that one can actually live a lucid life of infginite possibilities....I am a myselof one of the invisible people, uneducated and in articulate. Word unlike true meaning or feeling are such juggled things. As far as maps go this is a beauty and would seem to lead to some possibility of inner light or freedom... be happyv its not as bad as it looks orn feels.

United States on May 05, 2013