It’s been a little while since I’ve sat down with a cup of coffee and done a podcast about a Great Book.
I’ve been working hard behind the scenes putting together video lectures on Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Freud, Plato, and more over at the Hardcore Literature Book Club. There’s a great discussion going on right now, so please do check it out.
So I decided to make this a great show. The material does a lot of the heavy lifting for me because we’re talking about Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols.
Jung’s Man and His Symbols is a life-saving self-help book about interpreting the serious messages your unconscious sends to you.
We’re talking about freeing yourself from despair, comparing the great psychologists (from Freud to Frankl), heaping a healthy dose of Nietzsche over everything, talking about premonitions and sixth senses, and we’ll even learn how you can reconnect with your true self and embark upon your own unique hero’s journey.
Timestamps to topics below the podcast player (I’ve even bolded some areas you might want to jump to if you don’t have an hour to crush all at once).
Grab yourself something delicious to sip on or take yourself out for a nice long rambling walk through nature – we’re about to go deep.
And, as always, I would be deeply appreciative if you would leave a quick review over at iTunes because that tells me you’re enjoying this content and would like more of it. I’ll keep doing these shows as long as you keep listening.
The Carl Jung Podcast (Man and His Symbols)
Topic timestamps:
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- 0:00 Jung, Freud, Frankl
- 1:00 we live in a Freudian culture
- 1:40 archetypes, repression, sublimation, neurosis, the unconscious
- 2:00 Oedipus complex, castration complex, penis envy
- 2:30 why Freud is like Plato as a writer of imaginative literature
- 3:10 Plato vs Aristotle, Freud vs Jung
- 3:40 Crime and Punishment and the split within oneself
- 4:20 the negativity of Freudian analysis
- 5:00 Freud as literary critic
- 6:00 Freud vs Maslow and Viktor Frankl (eudaimonia and self-actualisation)
- 6:50 Man’s Search for Meaning and dignity in suffering
- 8:00 Libet, the split-second delay, and free will (“between stimulus and response”)
- 8:45 Jung as positive psychologist (the rift between Freud and Jung)
- 9:00 How Man and His Symbols saved me from despair and a book slump