NP: Q re Jung Order

[David Morris]

They don't build neatly. They blend from different angles. Starting with
Alchemey will be a challenge. It is more obscure than most of his other
angles. I would suggest "the Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious" as
the foundation of his entire work.

David Morris

On Monday, February 15, 2016, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Ian's recommendation, I'm about to start PSYCHOLOGY AND ALCHEMY in
> advance of Zero. Though the dude I bought it from accidentally sent Vol11,
> PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION: WEST AND EAST, the editor's note to which says a
> full understanding of Jung's ideas on archetypes, in addition to a few
> other volumes of the collected (unspecified by him except for AION and
> PSYCHOLOGY AND ALCHEMY).
>
> But the note doesn't say anything about the order in which these things
> should best be consumed--if X builds on Y to the extent that X's
> comprehendability is diminished by not reading Y first, so forth.
>
> Not having read the collected en maas, I turn to you guys, confident that
> at least one of you will have a considered opinion.
>
> Does the vein of Jung's work I am immediately interested in, before the GR
> read (alongside the other things I want to read before 3/15, I have time
> for maybe 3 of the Jung books? though I could stretch that if necessary)
> best reveal itself in some particular order? Any thoughts on this?
>
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