New and Recent Books
122. MARIE-LOUISE VON FRANZ: The Classic Jungian and the Classic Jungian Tradition
Edited by James A. Hall and Daryl Sharp
ISBN 9781894574235 128 pages. Sewn. Illustrated. Index. $25
For contents and excerpts, see Jung at Heart #48.
Marie-Louise von Franz, Ph.D. (1915-1998), worked closely with C.G. Jung for almost thirty years. She is an acknowledged authority on the application of Jungian psychology to dreams, alchemical texts and fairy tales, and author of many books. Her titles in this series include Redemption Motifs in Fairy Tales (1980), On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance (1980), Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology (1980), The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption (1999), and The Problem of the Puer Aeternus (2000).
This book consists of memories of Dr. von Franz by those who knew and loved her, with detailed appreciation of her life and work in the service of Jung's school of analytical psychology. Among the contributors are Thomas B. Kirsch, Anne Maguire, James A. Hall, Barbara Davies, Daryl Sharp and Robert S. Henderson. An additional section explores what is meant by the "classic Jungian tradition," which Dr. von Franz exemplified so substantially while putting her own unique stamp on it.
James A. Hall, M.D., is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich and a retired analyst in Dallas, Texas. He is the author of two titles in this series: Jungian Dream Interpretation: A Handbook of Theory and Practice (1983) and The Jungian Experience: Analysis and Individuation (1986).
Daryl Sharp, B.Sc., B.J., M.A., is a Zürich graduate and publisher of Inner City Books in Toronto, Canada. He has written many volumes in this series, including Personality Types: Jung's Model of Typology (1987), The SleepNot Trilogy (2005-07) and most recently, Jung Uncorked: Rare Vintages from the Cellar of Analytical Psychology (2008).
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 120
& 121. JUNG
UNCORKED:
Rare Vintages from the Cellar of Analytical Psychology
Daryl Sharp Book One:
ISBN 9781894574211. 128 pp. 2008 $25
Book Two: ISBN 9781894574228. 128 pp. 2008 $25
For contents and excerpt/review,
see the newsletter Jung
at Heart #47.
From the author’s Preface:
C.G. Jung died in 1961 at the age of 86, but his legacy lives
on, mightily. His writings are like fine, full-bodied wines—they
mature with age, as do we all if we pay sufficient attention
to ourselves.
This book celebrates Jung. It presents spirited passages
in his Collected Works (CW) together with
my experiential commentaries on their psychological significance
and contemporary relevance. The selections here are of course
just the tip of the wine cellar, so to speak, that is Jung’s
legacy and, by extension, the backdrop to the attitude toward
the psyche that generally informs the modern practice of
analytical psychology.
Some of the material here may be familiar to readers from
other contexts. That is to be welcomed. Consider that we
all come back to psychological writings anew, according to
where we are on our spiral path of self-understanding. For
myself, after thirty years practicing as a Jungian analyst,
and editing and publishing books by many colleagues, I am
still struck by Jung’s all-encompassing wisdom and
insights into the workings of the human psyche. Indeed, although
I am quite familiar with all the essays in Jung’s Collected
Works, wherever I open a volume it is as if I had never read
it before. My knees become weak and I am inspirited anew.
Jung Uncorked is published in two
volumes. Book One explicates and comments on essays from
CW volumes 1-9i. Book Two does the same with CW volumes 9ii
to 18. In order to cover Jung’s wide range of interests,
the chapters in the two Books deal with one essay from each
volume of the Collected Works, sequentially from CW 1 to
CW 18.
Daryl Sharp, B.J., B.Sc., M.A., is a Zurich-trained
analyst, publisher of Inner City Books, and author of fifteen
other books in this Series. He lives and practices in Toronto,
Canada
119. At
the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity and Jung’s Spiritual
Testament
J. Gary Sparks
ISBN 9781894574204. Index 192 pp. 2007. $30.00
This is an extraordinary book. It is important both for its
clarification of the phenomenon of synchronicity and for
its implications for the survival of Western civilization.
The author, schooled in religious studies and science, takes
readers gently through a basic understanding of physics,
from classical Newtonian to modern quantum, and weds that
to C.G. Jung’s long-standing enquiry into the enigmatic
relationship between matter and spirit, selfhood and destiny.
Here we meet the conjunction in time of three great minds:
Swiss psychiatrist Jung; Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang
Pauli; and the celebrated analyst-scholar Marie-Louise von
Franz in their efforts to understand the mysterious interpenetration
of time and the timeless.
The journey is exciting and illuminating, and certain to
mark a watershed in an understanding of the individuation
process and the evolving practice of analytical psychology
as a holistic approach to healing psychological ills.
J. Gary Sparks, B.Sc., M.Div., M.A., is a graduate of Bucknell
University in Lewisburg, PA; the Pacific School of Religion
in Berkeley, CA; and the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland.
He is a former Peace Corps Korea Volunteer during the early
1970s and co-editor of Edward F. Edinger’s Science
of the Soul (2002) and Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets
(2000). He is widely known in North America for his lectures
and seminars on the significance and application of Jungian
psychology. (See www.jgsparks.net.) .
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 118. THE
GAMBLER: Romancing Lady Luck (A Jungian exploration)
Billye B Currie ISBN 9781894574198.
Index 128 pp. 2007. $25.00
Gambling, once shunned as a criminal
activity, is now a main-stream component of Western culture.
Participation in gambling is reported by over 80% of people
in North America.
This is the first ever book on gamblers and gambling from
a Jungian perspective. Most studies of gambling activities
focus on addiction to the game(s), but this book covers the
gamut, from recreational to pathological gambling. The author
explores the archetypal foundations of the gambler through
1) amplification of images of Lady Luck; 2) the role of “play” as
an activity informing the gambler’s approach to the
game; and 3) images of the gambler on the continuum from
play to addiction —all in the service of becoming better
acquainted with the gambler in ourselves and in those around
us.
Case stories are included in this exceptionally insightful
study of the inner and outer forces that urge many of us
to take a chance—on slots, cards, dice, lotteries,
horses, roulette, stocks, love and more, with particular
attention to gambling in casinos.
Billye B. Currie, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and a
graduate of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.
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 117.
EYES WIDE OPEN: Late Thoughts (Another Jungian romance)
Daryl Sharp ISBN 9781894574181. Index 160 pp.
2007. $25.00
This fnal book in The SleepNot Trilogy (with titles 112 and
115) favors readers with new glimpses into the soul of the
author and the many life, love and death issues, personal and
collective, that he grapples with.
With candor, insight and humor, interweaving his own story
with psychological verities and Jung’s concepts, Sharp
and Prof. Adam Brillig chart the course, and trials, of individuation
that are part and parcel of everyone’s journey through
life.
There are those who dismiss Jung as being too heady or mystical.
Daryl Sharp brings Jung’s ideas alive and makes them
both understandable and palatable. He stretches gold.
—Marion Woodman, author of The Pregnant Virgin.
A Jungian with a sense of humor? Not an oxymoron, but Daryl
Sharp. Here is an author able to put complex ideas into words
and real-life situations that laymen can understand. It’e
a rare ability.
—Robertson Davies, author of Fifth Business and Bred
in the Bone.
Daryl Sharp, B.J., B.Sc., M.A., is a graduate of the C.G. Jung
Institute in Zurich, the author of many other titles in this
series, and publisher of Inner City Books .
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