NP: Q re Jung Order

[Ian Livingston]

Psychology and Alchemy is the most accessible of the alchemy studies, but
David is quite right in suggestion Archetypes, and I would add in Aion as
being particularly relevant to contemporary lit, as it is the founding
document, if such can be found, of the "New Age" madness that swept the
West in the 60s & 70s, involving, especially, the retro element toward
paganism as an easy avenue to Earth-worship that required only a little
imagination. After that, I'd recommend more of the alchemy studies, such as
the Mysterium Coniunctionis (which is a difficult slog through tortuous
travails of the alchemist providing substantial insight into why CGJ
thought it so pertinent to integrity-building for the practitioner) or
Alchemical Studies, which is a moderately easier read. He does not trace
the Blavatsky -- Lady Gregory--Yeats connection, but rather the deeper
roots through Paracelsus & c.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:47 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
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