Books by Carl Jung
“It’s a survey of many different systems of belief—Eastern and Western, theological and aesthetic—from the beginning of recorded human history, to see how they can all be placed into the schema that Jung has set up.” Read more...
The best books on Personality Types
Merve Emre, Literary Scholar
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by Carl Jung
Even more than his Man and His Symbols, this is the book that charts the importance of sun myths, and the part our star plays in our dreams. There is an awful lot of nonsense around about the sun – think alchemy, freemasonry, Zoroastrianism, for a start – but the best of Jung is memorable: ‘Every soul is seized by an inexpressible longing for light… It is a maternal mystery, this primordial darkness. That is why the sun’s birth in the morning strikes the natives [of Africa] as so overwhelmingly meaningful… The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.’
Interviews where books by Carl Jung were recommended
The best books on The Sun, recommended by Richard Cohen
It makes us feel sexy, it makes us feel healthy and it can even make us feel more inspired. No wonder we’re in thrall to the power of the sun, says Richard Cohen
The best books on Personality Types, recommended by Merve Emre
Since its birth in the early twentieth century, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has become the most popular personality test in the world. Here, Merve Emre, author of the new book The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing, recommends five books that reveal how the language of ‘type’ has seeped into the marrow of American civic institutions and social life—from Fortune 500 companies to Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
