Man and His Symbols

2012-02-01

The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred images that break down ...

Author: Carl G. Jung

Publisher: Bantam

ISBN: 9780307800558

Category: Social Science

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The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred images that break down Carl Jung’s revolutionary ideas “What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both to psychology as a science and to our general understanding of man in society.”—The Guardian “Our psyche is part of nature, and its enigma is limitless.” Since our inception, humanity has looked to dreams for guidance. But what are they? How can we understand them? And how can we use them to shape our lives? There is perhaps no one more equipped to answer these questions than the legendary psychologist Carl G. Jung. It is in his life’s work that the unconscious mind comes to be understood as an expansive, rich world just as vital and true a part of the mind as the conscious, and it is in our dreams—those personal, integral expressions of our deepest selves—that it communicates itself to us. A seminal text written explicitly for the general reader, Man and His Symbolsis a guide to understanding the symbols in our dreams and using that knowledge to build fuller, more receptive lives. Full of fascinating case studies and examples pulled from philosophy, history, myth, fairy tales, and more, this groundbreaking work—profusely illustrated with hundreds of visual examples—offers invaluable insight into the symbols we dream that demand understanding, why we seek meaning at all, and how these very symbols affect our lives. By illuminating the means to examine our prejudices, interpret psychological meanings, break free of our influences, and recenter our individuality, Man and His Symbols proves to be—decades after its conception—a revelatory, absorbing, and relevant experience.
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Summary of Carl G Jung s Man and His Symbols

2022-03-04T22:59:00Z

#1 The history of symbolism shows that everything can be a symbol: natural objects, man-made things, and even abstract forms. The entire cosmos is a potential symbol for man, who then unconsciously transforms objects or forms into ...

Author: Everest Media

Publisher: Everest Media LLC

ISBN: 9781669350248

Category: Psychology

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Man uses the spoken or written word to express the meaning of what he wants to convey. His language is full of symbols, but he also often employs signs or images that are not strictly descriptive. Some are mere abbreviations or strings of initials, while others are familiar trade marks, the names of patent medicines, or badges. #2 The human mind never comprehends anything fully or perceive anything completely. We can see, hear, and touch, but we never see, hear, and touch everything fully. We can only see, hear, and touch certain things subliminally, without our conscious knowledge. #3 The unconscious is not a separate part of the human mind, but a part of nature that we cannot define or understand. It is limitless, and we can only describe how it functions. #4 The bush soul is the soul of an animal, and the animal is considered as some sort of brother to the man. If the bush soul is a tree, the tree has parental authority over the individual concerned.
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The Medium of the Video Game

2010-07-22

C. J. Jung, ed., "Approaching the Unconscious," in Man and His Symbols (New York: Dell, 1968), pp. 1-94. (Original work published in 1964) 17. A. Jaffe, "Symbolism in the Visual Arts," in Man and His Symbols, ed.

Author: Mark J. P. Wolf

Publisher: University of Texas Press

ISBN: 9780292786646

Category: Games & Activities

Page: 223

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Over a mere three decades, the video game has become the entertainment medium of choice for millions of people, who now spend more time in the interactive virtual world of games than they do in watching movies or even television. The release of new games or game-playing equipment, such as the PlayStation 2, generates great excitement and even buying frenzies. Yet, until now, this giant on the popular culture landscape has received little in-depth study or analysis. In this book, Mark J. P. Wolf and four other scholars conduct the first thorough investigation of the video game as an artistic medium. The book begins with an attempt to define what is meant by the term "video game" and the variety of modes of production within the medium. It moves on to a brief history of the video game, then applies the tools of film studies to look at the medium in terms of the formal aspects of space, time, narrative, and genre. The book also considers the video game as a cultural entity, object of museum curation, and repository of psychological archetypes. It closes with a list of video game research resources for further study.
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The Good And Evil Serpent

2010-01-01

See the reflections on these categories and the search for a symbol's meaning (or the confusion of a decoration with a symbol) by R. W. Bagley in “Meaning and Explanation,” in The Problem ofMeaning in ... Jung, Man and His Symbols, p.

Author: James H. Charlesworth

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN: 9780300142730

Category: Religion

Page: 743

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The serpent of ancient times was more often associated with positive attributes like healing and eternal life than it was with negative meanings. This groundbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbol of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasizes the creativity of the biblical authors' use of symbols and argues that we must today reexamine our own archetypal conceptions with comparable creativity.--From publisher description.
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Experiencing the Magic of Art

2006-03

1 Solso, Cognition and the Visual Arts, p. 257. 2 Jung, Man and his Symbols, p. 5. D'Andrade, the Development of Cognitive Psychology, pp. 43,44. 5 Ornstein, The Evolution of Consciousness, pp. 141-150. Jung, Man and his Symbols, p .5.

Author: Justin Schmit

Publisher: Virtualbookworm Publishing

ISBN: 9781589396418

Category: Art

Page: 245

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This is the story of how a sculptor's quest to find the magic of art transformed his life and work. It documents the process through which he found his inner self and, in so doing, so reveals how each of us can come to know and understand our own unique artistic voice. The author explores myths and rituals and what psychologists, neural scientists, philosophers, poets, artists and mystics have told us about the world we create in our minds and how we can use this knowledge to enhance our experience of art. The reader is guided through the great art movements from the caves at Lascaux painted 30,000 years ago to Andy Warhol's "Brillo Box." The book is short, scholarly, easy to read and illustrated with dozens of the author's whimsical cartoons.
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Federico Fellini

2013-12-11

I wish to refer in particular to one Jungian volume, Man and His Symbols, published in 1964. Fellini owned a copy of this illustrated volume, which was Jung's last project before he died and is essentially a popular account of Jungian ...

Author: Hava Aldouby

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

ISBN: 9781442669598

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 208

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Federico Fellini professed a desire to create “an entire film made of immobile pictures.” In this study, Hava Aldouby uses this quotation as a launching point to analyze Fellini’s films as sequences of “pictures” that draw extensively on art history, and particularly painting, as a reservoir of visual imagery. Aldouby employs an innovative pictorial approach that allows her to uncover a wealth of visual evocations overlooked by Fellini scholars over the years. Federico Fellini: Painting in Film, Painting on Film sheds light on the intertextual links between Fellini’s films and the works of various artists, from Velazquez to Francis Bacon, by identifying references to specific paintings in his films. Using new archival evidence from Fellini’s private library, brought to light for the first time here, Aldouby draws out Fellini’s in-depth knowledge of art history and his systematic employment of art-historical allusions.
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The Embodied Image

2011-05-16

71 Jaffé, as quoted in Jung, Man and His Symbols, 1968, p 308. 39 Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie, Beacon Press (Boston), 1971, p 6. 40 Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, Routledge and Kegan Paul (London), ...

Author: Juhani Pallasmaa

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9780470711903

Category: Architecture

Page: 155

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The Embodied Image The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture Juhani Pallasmaa All artistic and architectural effects are evoked, mediated and experienced through poeticised images. These images are embodied and lived experiences that take place in ‘the flesh of the world’, becoming part of us, at the same time that we unconsciously project aspects of ourselves on to a conceived space, object or event. Artistic images have a life and reality of their own and they develop through unexpected associations rather than rational and causal logic. Images are usually thought of as retinal pictures but profound poetic images are multi-sensory and they address us in an embodied and emotive manner. Architecture is usually analysed and taught as a discipline that articulates space and geometry, but the mental impact of architecture arises significantly from its image quality that integrates the various aspects and dimensions of experience into a singular, internalised and remembered entity. The material reality is fused with our mental and imaginative realm. The book is organised into five main parts that look at in turn: the image in contemporary culture; language, thought and the image; the many faces of the image; the poetic image; and finally the architectural image. The Embodied Image is illustrated with over sixty images in pairs, which are diverse in subject. They range from scientific images to historic artistic and architectural masterpieces. Artworks span Michelangelo and Vermeer to Gordon Matta- Clark and architecture takes in Modern Masters such as Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, as well as significant contemporary works by Steven Holl and Daniel Libeskind.
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P ungsu

2017-12-04

Marie-Luise von Franz, “The Process of Individuation,” in Man and His Symbols, ed. Carl Gustav Jung (New York: Laurel Book, 1968), 230. 38. Aniela Jaffe, “Symbolism in the Visual Arts,” in Man and His Symbols, 285.

Author: Hong-key Yoon

Publisher: State University of New York Press

ISBN: 9781438468716

Category: History

Page: 446

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The first scholarly book to address Korean geomancy through an interdisciplinary lens. This book is a milestone in the history of academic research on the development and role of geomancy (fengshui in Chinese and p’ungsu in Korean) in Korean culture and society. As the first interdisciplinary work of its kind, it investigates many topics in geomancy studies that have never been previously explored, and contains contributions from a number of disciplines including geography, historical studies, environmental science, architecture, landscape architecture, religious studies, and psychoanalysis. While almost all books in English about geomancy are addressed to general readers as practical guides for divining auspicious locations, P’ungsu is a work of rigorous scholarship that documents, analyzes, and explains past and current practices of geomancy. Its readers will better understand the impact of geomancy on the Korean cultural landscape and appreciate the significant ecological principles embedded in the geomantic traditions of Korea; while researchers will discover new insights and inspirations for future research on geomancy not only in Korea, but in China and elsewhere. Hong-key Yoon is Associate Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and the author of The Culture of Fengshui in Korea: An Exploration of East Asian Geomancy.
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The Legacy of Mad Men

2019-11-30

Symbolism 2010, 240). Don's song expresses a desire to teach the world to sing—and we should not forget that Anna herself was a music teacher (2.12 'The Mountain King'). Perhaps this is her song too.

Author: Karen McNally

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030310912

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 280

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For seven seasons, viewers worldwide watched as ad man Don Draper moved from adultery to self-discovery, secretary Peggy Olson became a take-no-prisoners businesswoman, object-of-the-gaze Joan Holloway developed a feminist consciousness, executive Roger Sterling tripped on LSD, and smarmy Pete Campbell became a surprisingly nice guy. Mad Men defined a pivotal moment for television, earning an enduring place in the medium’s history. This edited collection examines the enduringly popular television series as Mad Men still captivates audiences and scholars in its nuanced depiction of a complex decade. This is the first book to offer an analysis of Mad Men in its entirety, exploring the cyclical and episodic structure of the long form series and investigating issues of representation, power and social change. The collection establishes the show’s legacy in televisual terms, and brings it up to date through an examination of its cultural importance in the Trump era. Aimed at scholars and interested general readers, the book illustrates the ways in which Mad Men has become a cultural marker for reflecting upon contemporary television and politics.
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