Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #422817 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Slow going
This work by a well known Jungian is slow going and relies too much on esoteric quotes form C.G. Jung. When he writes about the New Testament, Edinger is very informative though his style is tedius. The suplementary quotes from Jung are too long, over used and distrative. Jung's view on Christianity are hindered by his ambivalence about it and trying too hard to mythologize its message and mysteries. Edinger would have beeb better served using Jungian authors who are also believers.

True Courage
How many of us have the courage, the understanding and the wisdom to really know, let alone live our destiny? Edinger qoutes Jung (CW17,par296) as saying, "A man can make a moral decision to go his own way only if he holds that way to be best. If any other way were held to be better, then he would live and develope that other personality instead of his own" (p. 26) Sounds like a Koan of sorts, yet if one is truly striving to individuate, "blindly pursuing our way," we may eventially be on the "Road to Dasmascus." What to do? We need guides, "Old Wise Men and Women." A Yoda or two to interpret the symbols, the numinosum...this book is like bumping into Yoda in the deep part of the forest, when conflicts are almost too much to bare.

Brilliant!
I must sometimes grit my teeth and slog through Edinger to discover his pearls of wisdom. Not this time. This work I found quite accesible, the material thoroughly digested, well laid out and clearly explained. My copy is already massively underlined and dog-eared. (I'm presuming you'd have some knowledge of Jung before reading this book.)