Maybe you've seen it?... This 8-part series on Jung was published in The Guardian in 2011 and appeared around the time of the 50-year anniversary of his death (June 6, 1961). I find the writing very accessible and even discovered a few details I didn't know...
Carl Jung, part 1: Taking inner life seriously
30 May 2011: Mark Vernon: Achieving the right balance between what Jung called the ego and self is key to his theory of personality development
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/may/30/carl-jung-ego-self
Carl Jung, part 2: A troubled relationship with Freud – and the Nazis
6 Jun 2011: Mark Vernon: On the 50th anniversary of Jung's death it is time to put accusations of him collaborating with the Nazis to rest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/06/carl-jung-freud-nazis
Carl Jung, part 3: Encountering the unconscious
13 Jun 2011: Mark Vernon: Jung's Red Book reveals his belief in the painful, personal process of discovering how the unconscious manifests itself in conscious life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/13/carl-jung-red-book-unconscious
Carl Jung, part 4: Do archetypes exist?
20 Jun 2011: Mark Vernon: Jung's theory of structuring principles remains controversial – but provides a language to talk about shared experience
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/20/jung-archetypes-structuring-principles
Carl Jung, part 5: Psychological types
27 Jun 2011: Mark Vernon: The Myers-Briggs test is but one offshoot of Jung's attempt to show how radically people's perceptions and instincts can differ
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/27/carl-jung-psychological-types
Carl Jung, part 6: Synchronicity
4 Jul 2011: Mark Vernon: With physicist Wolfgang Pauli, Jung explored the link between the disparate realities of matter and mind
http://www.guardian.co.uka/commentisfree/2011/jul/04/carl-jung-synchronicity
Carl Jung, part 7: The power of acceptance
11 Jul 2011: Mark Vernon: Like the AA movement, Jung believed that acceptance and spiritual interconnectedness were crucial to a person's
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jul/11/carl-jung-power-acceptance
Carl Jung, part 8: Religion and the search for meaning
11 Jul 2011: Mark Vernon: Like the AA movement, Jung believed that acceptance and spiritual interconnectedness were crucial to a person's
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jul/18/how-to-believe-jung-religion
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I think that the "mainstream" deserves to be finally cut-off. Not that Jung was the only one who has revealed how much wrong is modern "rational" thinking, but he was really important. For instance, I hope that espionage thing happening right now is one more cloth needed to be removed in order to get the emperor naked. With the weakest exemplars of our species on the top, the needed change should happen near the bottom.
There are seven billion of the rest of us. I mean, come on!
Aleksandar: Thanks so much for your comments. I agree with you on many levels. What our culture (meaning modern consumer-based culture which is becoming so global for the most part) considers normal is actually rather frightening.
Yet, it's so easy to take it for granted and assume it's OK since we're all so embedded in it. What's ironic—and I think Jung put his finger on this too—is that those who do question it think they're (we're?) the ones who are crazy much of the time.
Yes, there will have to be an alchemical solutio or dissolving of some sort, a crumbling of cultural structures that no longer work in order to level the playing field and give us space for something new and more generative....
Hi Bonnie - great find - we are into Lecture 11 and this is a great find - thank you, I look forward to reading this series.
Regards Linda
Thanks for the note, Linda. It's wonderful to follow your comments in the Red Book and I so appreciate how involved and responsive you are. I would wish to be more so, but feel lucky every once in awhile when I post some information that speaks to me and someone else is able to benefit as well. Thank you for all your good work.