Man and His Symbols انسان و سمبولهایش

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 updated images that break down Carl G. 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 Symbols is a guide to understanding our dreams and interrogating the many facets of identity—our egos and our shadows, “the dark side of our natures.” 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. Armed with the knowledge of the self and our shadow, we may build fuller, more receptive 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.

About Author:
Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/ YUUNG; born Karl Gustav Jung, German: [kaʁl ˈjʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961), was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung’s work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology.

Freud saw the younger Jung as the heir he had been seeking to take forward his “new science” of psychoanalysis and to this end secured his appointment as President of his newly founded International Psychoanalytical Association. Jung’s research and personal vision, however, made it impossible for him to follow his older colleague’s doctrine and a schism became inevitable. This division was personally painful for Jung and resulted in the establishment of Jung’s analytical psychology as a comprehensive system separate from psychoanalysis.

Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual’s conscious and unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be the main task of human development. He created some of the best known psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex and extraversion and introversion.

Jung was also an artist, craftsman, builder and a prolific writer. Many of his works were not published until after his death and some are still awaiting publication.

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کتاب انسان و سمبول هایش، اثری نوشته ی کارل گوستاو یونگ است که اولین بار در سال 1964 منتشر شد. این کتاب، وجود خود را مدیون یکی از رویاهای یونگ است. این روانشناس بزرگ در خواب دید که به جای تنها قشری خاص، طیفی گسترده از مردم، آثار او را درک کرده اند و به همین خاطر، خلق این اثر را که مشخصا برای مخاطبین عام نوشته شده، آغاز کرد. یونگ در این کتاب به شکلی کامل و همه جانبه به دنیای ناخودآگاه می پردازد؛ دنیایی که زبانش به عقیده ی یونگ، نمادهایی هستند که خود را پیوسته در رویاها نشان می دهند. یونگ که متقاعد شده بود رویاها می توانند اطلاعاتی کاربردی را از سطوح ناخودآگاه ذهن در اختیار ما قرار دهند، احساس کرد که داشتن درکی بالاتر و بهتر از خویشتن، به داشتن زندگی کامل تر و ثمربخش تری خواهد انجامید. بنابراین، مخاطبین کتاب انسان و سمبول هایش علاوه بر آموختن معنای نمادها در سراسر تاریخ، فرصت به دست آوردن درکی بهتر از خود را خواهند داشت.

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کارل گوستاو یونگ، زاده ی 26 جولای 1875 و درگذشته ی 6 جون 1961، روانپزشک، فیلسوف و نویسنده ای سوئیسی بود که به خاطر فعالیت هایش در روانشناسی و ارائه ی نظریاتش تحت عنوان «روان شناسی تحلیلی» شناخته می شود. یونگ در کسویل سوییس متولد شد. او در جوانی مجذوب علم و فلسفه شد و دانشگاه بازل برای تحصیل در رشته ی پزشکی به او بورس داد. یونگ پس از مدتی به عضویت انجمن مناظرات دانشگاه درآمد. او بیش از دو سال در جلسات احضار روح شرکت می کرد چرا که این جلسات را موضوعی برای تحقیقات خود در نظر می گرفت. یونگ دوران کارآموزی را در روان پزشکی از دسامبر 1900 به عنوان دستیار بیمارستان بورگهولتزلی از درمانگاه های وابسته به دانشگاه زوریخ آغاز کرد. او در مدت نه سال در بورگهولتزلی در برنامه ی پیشگام تجربی روانشناسی تحت سرپرستی اوژن بلویلر رئیس بیمارستان فعالیت کرد. یونگ را در کنار زیگموند فروید از پایه گذاران دانش نوین روانکاوی قلمداد و از او به عنوان پدر روانشناسی نوین یاد می کنند.