The Complete Psychology of Carl Jung | Fall Asleep to All 35 Ideas

The Midnight Self | Carl Jung

The Midnight Self | Carl Jung

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Almost everything you have heard about Carl Jung is wrong. He was not a mystic. He was a hospital psychiatrist who spent his working life with patients nobody else could reach, and every idea he produced came out of watching people before it came out of theory.

He also got a number of things badly wrong, and this covers those too, near the end, without softening them. That is the difference between a map and a sermon.

Thirty five parts. Everything he worked out across sixty years about what a person is made of, and what the mind is doing when nobody is supervising it.

The structure of the psyche. The complexes that take over without permission, the mask you assembled before you could evaluate it, the shadow, and the deeper layer underneath all of them. The language the unconscious speaks when you are asleep. Why two reasonable people cannot always reach each other. The patterns that appear in every culture that has ever existed. The shape of a whole life and what breaks in the middle of it. Alchemy, religion, creativity, and what happens when entire populations fall under the same unconscious material. And the man himself, including his own collapse and what came out of it.

Nothing here needs to be remembered, and you do not have to stay awake for any of it.

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⏳ CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction
1:05 The map of the psyche
27:09 The language of the unconscious
37:50 How minds differ
46:47 The universal patterns
63:36 The shape of a life
77:47 The wider field
93:13 The man himself
107:13 Closing

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✦ ALL THIRTY FIVE PARTS

The unconscious. Psychic energy. Complexes. The persona. The shadow. Anima and animus. The Self. Dreams. Symbols and signs. Active imagination. Synchronicity. Introversion and extraversion. The four functions. Type in ordinary life. What an archetype is. The mother and the father. The child and the hero. Puer and senex. The trickster and the magician. Myth and fairy tale. The first half of life. The midlife turn. The second half. The integration of opposites. Projection and relationship. Alchemy. Religion and the numinous. Creativity and the mandala. Neurosis and health. The collective shadow. The crisis and the Red Book. The Eastern material. The symbolic life. What he got wrong. What remains.

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✦ Themes: Carl Jung, analytical psychology, the unconscious, the collective unconscious, archetypes, the shadow, the persona, anima and animus, the Self, individuation, psychological types, introversion and extraversion, complexes, dream analysis, active imagination, synchronicity, alchemy, the midlife transition, projection, depth psychology.

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