Hello Alyssa, thank you for your recommendations and the quality of your content. I've been curious whether you'd ever post about your approach to reading these books, I find some of them dense and challenging, full of academic concepts, as you've mentioned yourself. I wonder if there's a different way of approaching them. I appreciate how you teach sitting with the complexity of dense quotes while also breaking down the academic language step by step. Do you have a particular practice or ritual for reading without getting lost in the jargon?
When I first started working through Jung's writing, I found it overwhelming! I tried to tackle essays/books that were a bit more approachable, and always made sure to either look up concepts I did not know, or write them down to research further.
As I mentioned in this article, I really started to break through when I turned to other Jungian sources as primers. This includes books (like the one's listed here) but also lectures. I do really well with audio based lectures, it's so helpful to hear how teachers/analysts describe these concepts to students. One of my favorite resources for that is YouTube (lots of free lectures to find from analysts like James Hillman, Marion Woodman, and Murray Stein). I also purchased lectures from the CG Jung Institute of Chicago (https://jungchicago.org/blog/product-category/downloads/) they have such a rich backlog of amazing classes.
I'll think a bit more about a structure/practice for working through the material as well. I think that would be so valuable :)
Hello Alyssa, thank you for your recommendations and the quality of your content. I've been curious whether you'd ever post about your approach to reading these books, I find some of them dense and challenging, full of academic concepts, as you've mentioned yourself. I wonder if there's a different way of approaching them. I appreciate how you teach sitting with the complexity of dense quotes while also breaking down the academic language step by step. Do you have a particular practice or ritual for reading without getting lost in the jargon?
When I first started working through Jung's writing, I found it overwhelming! I tried to tackle essays/books that were a bit more approachable, and always made sure to either look up concepts I did not know, or write them down to research further.
As I mentioned in this article, I really started to break through when I turned to other Jungian sources as primers. This includes books (like the one's listed here) but also lectures. I do really well with audio based lectures, it's so helpful to hear how teachers/analysts describe these concepts to students. One of my favorite resources for that is YouTube (lots of free lectures to find from analysts like James Hillman, Marion Woodman, and Murray Stein). I also purchased lectures from the CG Jung Institute of Chicago (https://jungchicago.org/blog/product-category/downloads/) they have such a rich backlog of amazing classes.
I'll think a bit more about a structure/practice for working through the material as well. I think that would be so valuable :)
Thank you!
WE by Robert Johnson has been somewhat of a life changer for me. I will check out Inner Work
I think you'll enjoy Inner Work! It carries a similar tone of Johnson's other books.